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