Acting, Voice & Movement, Speech/Heightened Texts, Breathwork, Embodiment Studies

Teaching Core Principles:
Presence:  breath, sensation, and presence as a triangle of embodiment. How we use our given circumstances as springboards for our collaborative work, not corsets for our creativity; how we focus on moment-to-moment work investing in the other person(s) [we are in a scene with]; and how we care to keep each other respected and creative in the process. 

Asymmetry: acknowledging safety is an asymmetrical felt experience in collaborative processes, how does intentional focus on asymmetry in our [somatic and collaborative] work cultivate flexibility and challenge our preconceived notions of wholeness? Exercising and questioning the importance of discomfort in our work as theatre artists and educators, this work cultivates the individual’s autonomy to be in groups with presence and coherence; intimacy and access; play and ease.
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Autonomy within the Collective:  The paradigm shift from I have a body to I am a body decentralizes the act of external and internal looking as/at the performer and affirms the dimensionality of the body’s walls as an invitation to the experience of autonomy.  From this felt experience, I enter group scenarios/processes with a secure sense of myself.

***full teaching cv available upon request