Curriculum Vitae

FORMAL EDUCATION

Feldenkrais Teacher Training (KFTT) in Kelowna, BC

• Certified Awareness Through Movement® Teacher

• Certified Functional Integration® Practitioner

Pilates Unlimited Inc. in Vancouver, BC

• Pilates Certification: Mat Level 1 (Beginner)

• Pilates Certification: Mat Level 2 (Intermediate/Advanced)

Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts in Burnaby, BC

• Bachelor of Fine Arts – Dance Major

• Certificate in the Liberal Arts

PROFESSIONAL DANCE WORK & PERFORMANCES

2014 - present / Company dancer with EDAM (Experimental Dance and Movement)

2012 - 2024 / Project dance artist with Helen Walkley

2023 - 2024 / Project dance artist with Foolish Operations

2015 - 2023 / Project dance artist with Co. ERASGA

2021 - 2022 / Project dance artist with Jeanette Kotowich

2008 - 2022 / Collaborations with Dance Companies and Independent Artists including:

Francesca Frewer, Kate Franklin, Isabelle Kirouac, Rachel Meyer, Mutual Futures Collective, Nayana Fielkov, Daelik & Delia Brett/MACHiNENOiSY, Jamie Robinson, Donna Redlick/Donna Redlick Dance, Gail Lotenberg/LINK Dance, Heather Lamoureux/Pressed Paradise, Ashley Whitehead, Starr Muranko/Raven Spirit Dance, Vanessa Goodman/Action at a Distance, Diego Romero, David McIntosh/Battery Opera, Daisy Thompson, Judith Garay/Dancers Dancing, Katie DeVries, Lindsey Shaw, Michael Kong, Kirsten Wiren, Natalie Gan/Hong Kong Exile, Siobhan Sloane-Seale, Shauna Elton, Erika Mitsuhashi, The Foreigner’s Collective, Rob Kitsos, and Henry Daniel.

TEACHING

2017 - present / Teacher of Dance + Movement (Somatics, Improvisation, and Contact Improvisation) at venues such as:

EDAM, UBC Department of Theatre & Film, Freiburg Contact Festival, Modus Operandi, OURO, Immigrant Lessons, Ballet BC, SFU’s Theatre BFA Performance, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, Leviathan Studio, Vancouver Contact Improvisation Festival, The Training Society, Polymer Dance, Performing Arts Program at Douglas College, Salt Spring Jam, Berkley Jam, Nanaimo Contemporary Ballet, Immigrant Services Society of BC, University of the Philippines.

2021 - present / Adjunct Movement Professor

BFA Acting Program, University of British Columbia

2023 - 2024 / Teacher of Awareness Through Movement®

Virtually on Zoom or in-person at EDAM

2013 - 2021 / Teacher of Mat Pilates at venues such as:

False Creek Community Centre, Ron Zalko Fitness & Yoga, Douglas Park Community Centre (Pilates Unlimited).

TRAINING, WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES

2011 - present / Contact Improvisation with Peter Bingham (EDAM), and with teachers including:

Anjelika Doniy, Matin Keogh, Andrew Harwood, Alicia Grayson, Karen Nelson, John Faichney, Ray Chung, Chris Aiken, Sara Shelton Mann, Frey Faust, Leilani Weis, Ruslan Baranov, Suzanne Liska, Anne Cooper, Daelik, Delia Brett, Yves Candau, Mark Young, and Jennifer McLeish-Lewis.

2017 - present / Feldenkrais classes & teacher training with teachers including:

Julie Peck, Alice Friedman, Gisele St. Hilaire, Jeff Haller, Deborah Bowes, Erica Trivett, and May Nasser.

2017 - 2021 / Grotowski Technique, Physical Theatre, & Scene Study with Raïna Von Waldenburg

2011 - 2023 / Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, & Improvisation with Helen Walkley

2011 - 2019 / Axis Syllabus workshops with teachers including:

Frey Faust, Ruth Douthwright, Kathleen Rea, and Baris Mihci.

2010 - 2021 / Other (multi-day) professional dance, theatre, performance, and voice training:

Billy Marchenski, Kevin O’Connor, Wendy vanden Heuvel, David MacMurray Smith, David Smukler, Brad Gibson, Dawn McCaugherty, Tom Stroud, Gayle Murphy, Susanna Hood, Katie Duck, Charles Koroneho, Sara Shelton Mann, Allen & Karen Kaeja, Jennifer Mascall, Tara Cheyenne/TCP, Rafaele Giovanola, Lin Snelling, Fighting Monkey with RootlessRoot Company, and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company.

Other somatic education:

Alexander Technique classes with Krystal Morrison and Marta Hunter

ARTISTIC WORKS

2022 - 2023  49.3° N, 123.6° W (duet, in collaboration with Diego Romero)

Aug 2022 / Presented by Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin, Germany
Jan 2023 / Presented by The Happening in Vancouver, BC
Apr 2023 / Present by Ignite the Arts Festival in Penticton, BC

May 2022  This widening of my gaze (commission, group piece with the Continuum Dance Company)

Presented by Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, BC

2022  Senescence (duet, remount + development, in collaboration with Alex Mah, Diego Romero, Raïna von Waldenburg)

Mar 2022 / Presented by Vancouver International Dance Festival in Vancouver, BC
Aug 2022 / Presented by Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin, Germany

Jul 2020  Hold still a moment (livestream, part of forest dance series)

Presented by Dance Cafe (the Response) + Dancing on the Edge Festival in Vancouver, BC

Nov 2019  Senescence (duet, in collaboration with Alex Mah, premiere)

Presented by New Works in Vancouver, BC

Jul 2019  Senescence (solo, excerpt)

Presented by Small Stage in Vancouver, BC + Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation in Seattle, WA

Feb 2019  Untitled (duet, in collaboration with Nayana Fielkov)

Presented by BOOMBOX in Vancouver, BC

Feb 2018  Senescence (solo, in-process showing)

Presented by 12 Minutes Max at Faris Theatre, The Dance Centre in Vancouver, BC

Sep & Oct 2017  NotBecauseWeAreUsedToLiving (site-specific solo, in collaboration with Dave Biddle)

Presented by SFU SCA, MFA Graduating Project in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC

Jun 2017  Things that are beautiful and transient (solo, premiere)

Presented by Inception Dance Company at VIU Theatre in Nanaimo, BC

Nov 2016    Feedback Loop (solo, premiere)

Presented by Shooting Gallery Performance Series at Dusty Flower Shop in Vancouver, BC

May 2014    Sociopetal Axis (trio, performed by Jeanette Kotowich, Julie Geremia & Lulu)

Presented by BLOOM at Mascall Dance in Vancouver, BC

2011  their cloudy measurement (solo, premiere)

Jan 2011 / Presented at Nitzotzot in Kibbutz Ga'aton, Israel
Oct 2011 / Art for Impact in Vancouver, BC

Spring 2010    Colour by Number (duet, premiere, in collaboration with Justin Reist)

Presented by 12 Minutes Max at The Firehall Theatre in Vancouver, BC

Summer 2009    Firewire (duet, in collaboration with Justin Reist)

Presented by LINK at Moberly Arts Centre in Vancouver, BC

Spring 2008    Box Social (quartet, in collaboration w/Jeanette Kotowich, Jaime Koleyak & Sarah Russell)

Presented by SFU Dance Grad Show at The Firehall Theatre in Vancouver, BC

Spring 2008    Adrenal Offspring (duet, performed by Janine Kamonzeki & Sarah Russell) 

Presented by SFU Dance Grad Show at The Firehall Theatre in Vancouver, BC

Spring 2008    Please Press Pound (duet, in collaboration with Jeanette Kotowich)

Presented by SFU Dance Grad Show at The Firehall Theatre in Vancouver, BC

Winter 2008    CO = SV x HR (solo)

Presented by SFU Student Mainstage at The SFU Theatre in Burnaby, BC

Spring 2007    Kool-aid Drinkers (duet, in collaboration with Janine Kamonzeki)

Presented by SFU Student Mainstage at The SFU Theatre in Burnaby, BC

Spring 2005    Guise (trio, in collaboration with Jaime Koleyak & Sarah Russell)

Presented by SFU Student Mainstage at The SFU Theatre in Burnaby, BC

AWARDS

2024    Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant

2021    Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant

2021    Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant

2020    Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant

2020    Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant

2019    British Columbia Arts Council, Project Grant

2019    British Columbia Arts Council, Professional Development Grant

2018    Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant