Collaborations


DancEast Collective
Artist in Residence

Creating new work for the DancEast Company, developing solo work, creating a piece for DancEast Youth Ensemble, and offering workshops and classes open to the community.


Running out - New work Collaboration
with Istanbul Fringe Festival

Supported by the Consulate General of the USA
Venue partnership with Hope Alkazar

Choreographer + Director

Photos by Berkay Şatir + mirac Çelen


PYDANCE: Murder of Crows
Immersive Experience

PYDANCE Director Asia Pyron
Venue Welcome to 1979
Part of Kindling Arts Festival 2024

Rehearsal Director + Collaborator + Performer

Photos by Tiffany Bessire


The Girlhood Project

Spearheaded by Kindling Arts Festival
Directors Daniel Jones + Jessica Malone
Choreo. Phylicia Roybal, Joi Ware, Alex winer

Producer + Choreographer
Premiere July 2024

Photos by Tiffany Bessire


The Fire Cycle : Epiclesis Film

Directed + Produced by Clay Steakley
Filmmaker Tyler Dunning Evans

Core Collaborator + Performer
“Epiclesis” short film
Premiered at EP Incubator Showcase 2024

Film stills by Tyler Dunning Evans


Kill the Director

Choreographer Lenin Fernandez
“I have only been present with the illusion” continuation

Collaborator + Performer
New excerpt premiere at EP Incubator Showcase 2024

Photos by Ben Hoback


Another Duet

Performers + Creators Mauve Taupe, Spencer Grady + Phylicia Roybal

Incubator Project Producer + Advisor
Excerpt premiere at EP Incubator Showcase 2024

Photos by Ben Hoback


Tejas

Performer + composer + co-choreographer Sangeetha Ekambaram

Co-Choreographer + Movement Director in collaboration with performer, Sangeetha Ekamabaram
New excerpt premiere at EP Incubator Showcase 2024

Photos by Ben Hoback


As you are under a smile
Emma Morrison

Choreographer Emma Morrison

Collaborator/Performer
Creative Residency by Animata Arts
with Metro Parks Dance Division

Photos by Karen Alisa Photography


Enactor Productions Incubator

Collaborators Sangeetha Ekambaram, Lenin Fernandez, Spencer Grady + Phylicia Roybal (Mauve Taupe), Clay Steakley

Producer + Collaborator


Residency with
Halil İbrahim Aygün

sis residency - Ordu, Turkey (August 2023)

Collaborator / Consultant

Solo creative processes for
Fallout (Hoback) + The Bender (Aygün)
created with alper aydin’s fata morgana works

Photo by Alper Aydin


Creative Residency with
Chen-Wei Lee

Produced by Enactor Productions
funded in part by creation in community donors

Brussels, Belgium - July 2023
Creation at Peeping Tom + Garage 29
Creative process for “place”

Photo by Arber sefa


The Hat

PRODUCTION Polish Dance Theatre
CO-PRODUCTION Jo Strømgren Kompani
Choreography, set design, lighting design, sound design, texts by Jo Strømgren

Choreographic Assistant

Creative process January+May 2023
Premiere September 2023 - Poznan, Poland

Gallery photos by Andrew Grabowski


The Fire Cycle : Stone Sutra

Music + Poetry by Clay Steakley

Performers + Choreographic contributions from Lenin Fernandez, Spencer Grady, Phylicia Roybal

Movement Director + Core Collaborator + Performer
The Procession, Stone Sutra, Recessional Poems

Premiere at OZ Arts’ Brave New Works Lab 2023
Photos by Tiffany Bessire


PYDANCE: Murder of Crows

Artistic Director Asia Pyron

Collaborator + Performer
Creative Residency by Animata Arts
with Metro Parks Dance Division


Imagining Scheherazade

Produced by visionary vocal Collaborative
Director Sangeetha Ekambaram

Choreographer + Movement Director in collaboration with performer, Sangeetha Ekamabaram


Primordial

Spearheaded by Alicia Enstrom
Music composed+performed by Alicia Enstrom
Filmed+Edited by Grant Claire: goodnicethanks

Collaborator + Performer

Film stills by Grant Claire


The Fire Cycle : Invocation

Directed + Produced by Clay Steakley
Filmmaker Tyler Dunning Evans

Core Collaborator + Performer
“Invocation” short film
Premiered at Kindling Arts Festival 2021

Cover by Clay Steakley
Film stills by Tyler Dunning Evans


“I have only been present with the illusion”

Choreographer Lenin Fernandez

Collaborator + Performer
Premiere at OZ Art’s Brave New Works Lab

Photos by Tiffany Bessire


PYDANCE: POOL

Artistic Director Asia Pyron

Collaborator + Performer
Metro Arts THRIVE Project Mentor
Kindling Arts Festival 2021 Staging Director

Photos by KAREN ALISA PHOTOGRAPHY


“Hello Again”
Studio Showings

Presented by Di Mossa, Director Lisa Valeri
Hosted by metro parks dance division

Guest Performer & Event Coordinator

Main image: film still by baxter williams + design by becca hoback
Gallery Photos by Ben Hoback


The Fragile Femme

Co-producers Joanne Evans & Micah Gleason
director George R. Miller
Choreographer Matilda Sakamoto
collaborator/Performer Kevin Zambrano

Collaborator + Performer
An immersive opera dance-theater recital exploring femininity across a gender-queer spectrum

Photos by Teryn Kuzma


The Haunted Ballet:
The Widow Maker Film

Director Crystal Peattie

Collaborator + Performer


Creative Process with
Roy Assaf + Ariel Freedman

Produced by Enactor Productions
with Roy assaf dance

Virtual - Spring 2021
Restaging process for “A Girl”

Photo by Julian Garita


Creative Residency with
Ana Maria Lucaciu

Produced by Enactor Productions
with OZ Arts Nashville

Nashville, TN - November 2020
Creative process for “Is this good?”

Photo by T.M. Rives


Creative Residency with
Ben Green

Produced by Enactor Productions
funded in part by metro arts thrive

Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance & Theater
Tel Aviv, Israel - January 2020
Creative process for “Offering”

Photo by Myy Jeraffi


P R I S M

Artistic Director David Flores

Creative Producer, Rehearsal Director, Performer, Administrative Assistant
Premier OZ Arts Nashville, March 2021

Photos by Tiffany Bessire


This Holding

Visual artist Jana Harper
Choreographer Rebecca Steinberg
Musician Moksha Sommer
Filmmaker Sam boyette

Collaborator / Performer
Premiered at OZ Arts Nashville, June 2020

Film Still by Sam Boyette


New Dialect

Artistic Director Banning Bouldin

Founding member, Performer, Outreach Workshop Team Leader, Company Class Facilitator, Community Class Teacher, Choreographic Assistant to the Artistic Director - 2013-2020