News I am an experimental dance artist, inspired by my studies of new dance, dance-theater, contact improvisation, and butoh. I'm also a bodyworker and use healing practices, as a source of creativity, inspiration and physical training. I research extended dance techniques, which are unique movements, individual to my particular body. I also develop teaching methods to help other dancers find their own extended techniques. Dance is a social art form and I'm a promiscuous collaborator. I'm mostly known for my collaborations with avant-garde musicians, but I also work with other dance, theater and visual artists. My dances are most often improvised with varying degrees of preparation. I'm currently practicing free improvisation: dances without any predetermined plan. My work is always site-specific. I seek to activate and enliven all spaces that I dance in, whether they are theaters, studios, homes, places of business or the outdoors. I also seek to connect audience members to their own embodied, corporeal experience with the immediacy and spontaneity of improvisation. Upcoming Events Jan 29th, 2009. 8 p.m. Nexus Radio Project Pachinko Zen collaboration with Gene Coleman. Jan 31st, 2009. 8 p.m. StudioSeries Studio34 Carolyn Merritt - tango Bonnie Jones/Liza Clark - movement/sound/text Sara Yassky - dance Ashley Deekus - percussion PIMA Group - music/dance Walter Wright/Joe Burgio - music/dance Feb 27th, 2009. XFest2009 Lowell, MA Feb 28th, 2009. XFest2009 Lowell, MA Apr 1st, 2009. IRTIJAL09 International free improvised music festival in Lebanon Apr 27th, 2009. Philadelphia Dance Showcase 2009 Hosted by Dance/USA Philadelphia "When We're Older" performs THE DROUGHT