In the fall of 2002 I began an MFA in choreography at UCLA and after graduating in 2005 was hired by the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego to help shape the new MFA in Dance Theatre program. I’m most interested in continuing to shift my arts practice away from known conventions of performance toward a discipline of inquiry that makes discoveries possible and visible, away from the replicated prescribed content, toward practicing disciplines of immediacy to reveal fresh material and meaning. Performances of the moment and in the moment wherever I am and can be, no frills, heavy on content, light on their feet. This approach to art making speaks directly to the things I value most as an artist: entering unfamiliar territory, listening, allowing structure and form to emerge, spontaneity, surprise and an embodied response to ‘what’s happening in the room’, less control, more noticing. Some of my influences include the work and writing of Simone Forti, Mary Overlie, Ann Daly, Deborah Hay, Dan Froot, Anne Bogart and Sally Banes (particularly her writing about Judson Dance Theater). The kind of art I want to make might be described like this: