Dramaturgy

I offer dramaturgy services to performing artists and facilitate the development of new work. As a collaborator on your project I provide support and productive intervention for your vision and goals. You can think of me as a midwife, devil’s advocate, translator, and transporter of your work. However we negotiate our collaboration, my priority is always advocacy for and nurturance of your project.

My process incorporates deep listening and locating the unique pulse of aesthetic, performative, narrative, and production values. How are you and I creating a verbal, physical, somatic or visual language for your work? How are cultural context and current artistic practice in dialogue with your work? You can think of me as a human tuning fork.

I bring over 20 years of experience of being a human tuning fork in my somatic and esoteric counseling practices, and 30 years of working all sides of theatre, dance, and multimedia performance. Investigating creative process is a passion of mine; the theory and the practice. I know what it’s like to be the performer on stage, the director in rehearsal, the critic in the audience, and the administrator doing the paperwork. When I’m working with artists it’s second nature for me to experience the process through this prism.

Dramaturgical Offerings:

Audience development Choreography and assistance Writing and editing
Rehearsal tracking and assistance Performance coaching Research and development
Narrative scaffolding and media synthesis
My rates are negotiable depending on the scope of work.

Ask these artists and organizations about my work:
Aynsley Vandenbrouke, Elisabeth Motley, Rodrigo Fischer, Murray Spaulding, Brent Felker, Arts Society of Kingston, The Dance Enthusiast, Dancenow|NYC, London Arts Board, Middlesex University, Hudson Valley Movement Collective, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Marissa Sher, John Medina, Joan Jubett-Bauer, India Harville, Joselia Hughes, Miguel Esteban, Charlotte Gibbons, Jillian Sweeney

Education:
MA Middlesex University (UK), Choreography and Performance Studies
MFA CalArts, Theatre
BA UC Riverside, Theatre and Dance