FESTIVAL: American College Dance Association, Salt Lake City, Utah (2019)

MASTER CLASSES TAUGHT: Becoming Creature, Partnering Experiments, and Dance Conditioning

CONFERENCE: Jews and Jewishness In The Dance World Tempe, Arizona (2018)

WORKSHOP TAUGHT: Metamorphosis and Finding Home in the In-Between

Description: In this workshop we will explore our own histories and inquiries of migration, home and the body through movement, writing/drawing, and dialogue. How does the Jewish experience of migration and perception of home influence identity, body, and creativity? By addressing this question in my own life, I began researching “metamorphosis” as a metaphor for the in-between state of transition, change, and growth.

FESTIVAL: Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival, Kalamazoo, MI (2017)

MASTER CLASS TAUGHT: Alternative Bodies - Co-taught and designed by Allison Shir and Florian Alberge

This master class draws from our current training and creative process.  Pulling from a collaged physical and performative practice, the class includes athletic training, partner work, improvisational tasks, and imagined states.  We focus on disrupting habits and breaking limits through playful obstacles and challenging game-like situations. Through this practice we ask ongoing questions such as:  “What makes a virtuosic body?” and “What constitutes honest expression through our movement choices?”  We embrace imperfection, asymmetry, paradox, and vulnerability.  In this class we work together as a community, exploring these principles collectively.

PIECE PRESENTED: Speculoos

"Speculoos" is a dance of two characters on an abstract and curious journey.  Through the exploration of absurdity, surrealism, and theatricality in an improvisational process, a wave of visceral emotions, tiny articulations, and delicious gestures emerged to form this quirky and delightful duet.

PUBLICATION: ProQuest Journals (2016)

RESEARCH: Metamorphosis: Radically Imagining The Body Through Collage and The Grotesque (University of Utah, Department of Modern Dance, Master's Thesis)

CONFERENCE: Dance Under Construction:  XV conference, "Boundaries, Borders, Bodies: Tracing Edges Within Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside (2015)

RESEARCH PRESENTED:  Migration and Dance:  Israeli Artists In Berlin (Panel: Dancing The Border/Shifting Boundaries)

ABSTRACT:  My research interest lies in how geography, community, and place influence identity and creative process. I am exploring how artists make sense of permeable boundaries and finding what is central at the intersection of migration, culture, and creativity. Through focusing on a specific population of Israeli artists who have migrated to Berlin, I explore how the artist evolves and develops, and the impact on their identities within changing environment.