Education

The Juilliard School, BFA in Dance 2015-19

Joseph W. Polisi Award for Artist as Citizen

Performed works by Johannes Wieland (solo), José Limón, Crystal Pite, Roy Assaf, Nacho Duato, Martha Graham, Stefanie Batten Bland, Katarzyna Skartpetowska, Helen Simoneau


Skidmore College 2020

Courses in Arts Administration and Directing


Dance Education Lab for Social Activism, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2020


Hubbard Street Pro, Directed by Alexandra Wells 2019-2020

Performed works by Ryan Mason, Savannah Dunn, Gabe Katz


BANFF Creative Gesture, Creative Composition and Choreography Lab 2018


Walnut Hill School for the Arts, High School Degree in Dance 2012-15


Summer Programs 2015-present

Doug Varone and Dancers, Movement Invention Project, Northwest Dance Project, Arts Umbrella, Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Program, b12 (summer and invincible loser), Sidra Bell MODULE, Post:ballet workshop.




Choreography

Post:ballet

Magma, immersive dance theater piece with composer dj.ari.b, The Midway, SF 2023-25

say i am you, site specific piece, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2022

Heron Arts, SF, Salesforce Tower Park, SF 2023


New York University 2025

Filling the Shell, immersive dance theater production

Audrey Chou MFA Thesis

NYU Blackbox Theater, Brooklyn


The Juilliard School Summer Dance Intensive 2024 sleeper hit! Group piece, Meredith Wilson Theater, NYC, The Juilliard School, NY


BODYSONNET 2024

NO CONSEQUENCE, duet, CounterPulse, SF, Center for Performance Research, NY


Composer, Trey Makler PhD

Waiting Rooms, immersive micro opera, Sacramento Gender Health Services 2024


BLUSH, solo installation, Shrem Manetti Museum, UC Davis 2022


LINES Training Program

Where do I start, proscenium work, Dance Mission Theater, SF 2024

CONTINUUM, proscenium work, Dance Mission Theater, SF 2022


LINES Summer Program 2023

Nice Try, proscenium work, Cowell Theater, SF


Berkeley Ballet Theater 2023

Darkness Is Not Well Lit with composer Nicole Lizee and Kronos Quartet

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum Theater


Studio 210 2023

not with a bang but with a sigh, proscenium work with Anthony Pucci

Studio 210 Residency, SF. Mentor: Deborah Slater


SAFEHouse Arts 2023

You Fool, solo proscenium work with visual artist Shana ParkeHarrison

SAFEHouse Arts, SF


BODYSONNET 2023

newave 2.0, proscenium duet with Moving Forward Dance, Arts on Site, NYC


BODYSONNET 2023

x dance, proscenium solo, Little Boxes Theater, SF, The Foundry, MA


Heron Arts 2022

States of Meditation, solo installation with visual artist Erin Zhao and composer Daniel Berkman

Heron Arts, SF


BODYSONNET 2021

newave, site specific work with composer Tushrik Fredericks, writer missexpandinguniverse, and photographer Adrianna Newell.

Hudson Waterfront, NY


BODYSONNET 2021

please come alone, durational installation with dramaturg Hannah Gellman, Powerhouse Square, MA

Supported by Massachusetts Cultural Council


BODYSONNET 2021

Red Step, dance installation, with composer Isaiah J Thompson and designer Samantha Pleet

High Line Nine Galleries, NYC


BODYSONNET 2021

I woke up on Skyline Drive, site specific work with composer Amos Cochran, Fayetteville, AR


BODYSONNET 2020

Treaty, site specific work for Pollinator Pavilion with DJ J.Calhoun, Hudson Carbon, NY


BODYSONNET 2020

An Evening at Chesterwood Gardens, site specific work with violist/composer Bram Fisher

Chesterwood, MA


BODYSONNET in collaboration with David Michalek 2020

D-CELL: an Exhibition & Durational Performance, site specific work with Neave Trio

PS21 Chatham, NY


BODYSONNET 2020

ARENA, site specific work, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA


BODYSONNET 2020

Volta, proscenium work with Neave Trio, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA


BODYSONNET 2020

sextet: conversation with an unconventional space, site specific work with Harlow Chamber Players

Bard College at Simon’s Rock, MA


Hubbard Street Pro 2019

she took the shock as a lullaby, solo solo proscenium work

Studebaker Theater, Chicago IL. Mentor: Alexandra Wells


Senior Production 2019

Room for Longing, proscenium work with designer Marion Talon, The Juilliard School, NYC

Mentor: Risa Steinberg


Cunningham Centennial 2019

Runs the Gamut, with Ethan Colangelo and Maddi Hanson

Baryshnikov Arts Center, NY. Mentor: Silas Riener


Juilliard415 Orchestra with conductor Robert Mealy 2018

Zoroastre, proscenium work, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center NY

ChoreoComp


Tour of a Reverie, proscenium work with Jack Frerer, The Juilliard School, NYC 2017

Triskelion Arts, BK 2018

Mentor: Jerome Begin, and Janis Brenner

Choreographic Honors, The Juilliard School


Quitter, solo proscenium work 2019


how the threads are woven, solo proscenium work with composer Trey Makler 2018


to be running breathlessly but not yet arrived, proscenium work 2016



Film Work

Magma 2024

Post:ballet with The Living Earth Show

Supported by the Phyllis C Wattis Foundation


ONETAKE 2023

BODYSONNET durational one shot film created in Cologne Germany

with cinematographer Jeff Schaul


say i am you 2023

Post:ballet with soprano Tiffany Townsend

Official Selection San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Dance Camera West


The Mount 2022

BODYSONNET with cinematographer Alexa Carrol and composer Core Memory

Supported by New England Foundation for the Arts


sky writing 2022

Solo film with composer Wick Simmons, commissioned by the Anthony Quinn Foundation


Lyra 2021- present

Leading Role with Babatunji Johnson music by Samuel Carl Adams with the

Living Earth Show and Post:ballet

Yale University, Stanford live, Screened at SF Performances, San Francisco Dance Film Festival


Blue Vice 2021

BODYSONNET with composer Chromic Duo and cinematographers Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison


please come alone: a ballad 2021

Solo film with composer Ganavya, commissioned by The Foundry West Stockbridge


I Will Chase the Shadows 2020

BODYSONNET, with guitarist Alberta Khoury, commissioned by The Peace Studio


yellow_trace 2020

Solo film with composer Qasim Naqvi and Lauren Cauley

Commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and House of Yes



Residencies

The Midway SF x Post:ballet 2024-25

Residency for Magma at San Francisco’s Nightclub / Creative Hub


BODYSONNET x Cologne, Germany 2023-24

Residency at Ballet of Difference Studios for the creation of ONETAKE


Studio 210 Residency, San Francisco 2023


New Movement at Mount Sequoah, Fayetteville Arkansas 2021

BODYSONNET, with composer Amos Cochran. Site specific performances at Mount Sequoyah and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Supported by Artists360


Walnut Hill School for the Arts Artist Fellowship, Natick, MA 2020

BODYSONNET, assistance in developing fellowship, inaugural artist fellows


Berkshire Pulse Company in Residence 2020-2021

BODYSONNET, community activation and site specific work in the

Berkshires, MA and Hudson Valley, NY


Collaborative Arts Ensemble, Avaloch Farms Music Institute, NH 2018, 2019


Awards and Grants

New England Dance Fund Award New England Foundation for the Arts 2021


MassCultural Council Local Artist Grant 2020


Joseph W. Polisi Award for Artist as Citizen, The Juilliard School 2019


Anthony Quinn Foundation Fellowship 2019


The Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship, Grant recipient 2015-19



Dance Employment Experience

Post:ballet, SF (2010-2025)

Associate Artistic Director 2023-25

Resident Choreographer 2022-25

Company dancer 2018-25


Deborah Slater Dance Theater, SF

Company Dancer 2023


Liss Fain Dance, SF 2022-23

Company Dancer


Liz Gerring Dance, NY 2021

Company Dancer


Helen Simoneau Dance, NY 2021

Choreographic workshop participant: Delicate Power


Francesca Harper Project, David Michalek, NY 2020-21

Dancer and collaborator for 7Pillars with SandBox Collective at ICA Boston, MA


DanceWorks Chicago 2020

Company Dancer NewWorks 


Directing Experience

Post:ballet, Associate Artistic Director 2023-25


BODYSONNET, co-founder and director with Sean Lammer, Mio Ishikawa 2019-present


Juilliard Community Engagement Fellowship 2016-19



Teaching

Experience teaching ages 8+, and experience teaching disabled/neurodivergent persons.


City Dance, SF 2023-present

Open Contemporary class


UC Berkeley 2023

Workshop with Contemporary dance students


ODC Dance, SF 2022-present

Open classes and workshops in Ballet and Contemporary


LINES Training and Summer Program 2022-present

Contemporary Class and mentoring


UC Davis 2022

Workshop with Dance Department


Post:workshop 2022-present

Contemporary class and choreography lab


Berkeley Ballet Theater 2020-present

Contemporary and Ballet Faculty Member


Yale University 2021

Workshop with MFA Dramaturgy and Acting Students