About

I am a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and activist that lives and works from Oakland/Huichin, the unceded ancestral land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone peoples. My performance work and scholarship are a praxis of dance, performance as community ritual, queerness, political artmaking, somatics and embodiment, performance studies and the creation of professional dance productions both in the community and in educational settings.  

I am an Associate Professor in the Performing Arts Department at Saint Mary’s College where I have been teaching since 2004, and I am the Program Director for LEAP (Liberal Education for Arts Professionals). I teach in the Undergraduate program, the Master’s in Dance: Creative Practice and the LEAP Program. Courses that I have designed and teach are modern and ballet dance technique, Somatic movement, Dance and Social Justice, Art and Activism, Performance Studies, Dance History: World Cultures, Choreography and Dance Production.

My choreography and performance installations have been seen at The Humanist Hall, Counterpulse, ODC Theater, Dance Mission Theater, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, The Garage, Studio 210, Ashby Stage, The Flightdeck, LeFevre Theater, Temescal Arts Center, as well as open spaces and unexpected corners. I am the co-director of Vella & Merrell Dance and Stranger Lover Dreamer. I currently dance for Rogelio Lopez & Dancers, Slack Dance and Davalos Dance. As a dancer, I have created and performed works with Circo Zero and Sarah Crowell, Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, Liss Fain Dance, Paufve Dance, Agora Dance Project, Dance Ceres, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater.  

I teach open adult beginning/ intermediate modern dance classes at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center on Thursdays 6:15-7:45 at Bandaloop Space.

I am using this website as a platform to present my work, study, and collaborations in dance with agency.