Exhibits & Events

I'm telling stories that have no plot, no narrative, but they don't come from nowhere, that would be impossible, nor are they clever, which would be possible but incredibly boring. The stories are vicious and tender, without pretense, rebellious and vulnerable, passionately emotional and unconcerned with translation.

SPEAK ENGLISH is a 60-minute solo performance which draws from dance and movement, performance, devised theater, experimental sound, and improvisation. Part fantasy, part comic, part drama, I create spaces with narratives that can disappear or be completely non-linear. From one scene to the next the sound can go from pop synth loops to analog noise and soundscapes. With low-tech props and fx devices, messy costume transformations not hidden from view, any possibility for magic or illusion is exposed, leaving a rough edge between fiction and no-fiction, sense and no-sense, between the theatrical and the performative.

Speak English is the second installment of a proposed tryptic of performances that started with my previous work, Cheetah Banks. Working with an assortment of original characters, abstract narratives, and scenes that have no narrative thread between them, I am interested in finding the limits of cohesion and the making of meaning traversing disparate terrains that are funny, terrifying, disconcerting, evocative.

Themes: class, labor/work, identity, gender, xenophobia, language and power, lo-fi, sense/nonsense, narrative/non-narrative