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WOMANLAND is a multi-media, dance-theater piece that explores the complex, layered, and messy truths of being a woman in America, depicting scenes of legislation, employment, marriage, and menstruation. With energetic, contemporary movement, framed by vibrant animated projections and grounded with factual stories, the piece merges my work in dance, film, and auto-ethnographic writing. I am continuing to develop the work for touring around the U.S. with a particular hope of targeting the 30 women’s colleges.
WOMANLAND had its initial performances at LAUNCH: L.A. 2025, the competitive choreographic residency of L.A. Dance Project. “LAUNCH: L.A. Provides Launch Pad for Emerging Choreographers” “L.A. Dance Project’s LAUNCH: L.A. 25 Presented Two Very Strong Works”
WOMANLAND
An orchestral music video that uses the power of dance and artful cinematography to craft a visually vibrant and emotionally compelling refutation of dehumanization.
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IMPRESARIO: AN APP LINKING MINDS WITH MEANS
IMPRESARIO is an idea for an app to foster the artist-benefactor relationship and help free the American artist from grant-writing labor and facilitate rewarding person-to-person impact for America’s wealthiest citizens.
Arts funding models in America are broken. Federal funding is subject to the whims of political partisanship and foundation grant applications are time-consuming, laborious, and improbable. The American artist often spends more time trying to fund the work than they do creating it. IMPESARIO would combine the image-centered design of apps like Instagram with the keen curation algorithms of dating apps to link the wealthiest citizens with active, professional artists through projects in progress. Unlike crowdfunding apps like Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and Patreon, IMPRESARIO would not seek funding from the crowd; it would seek funding from the elite. The app would require funders to have high net-worth so that even the minimum contribution could provide the transformative support an artist would need to bring imagination to fruition. IMPRESARIO, as the name suggests, activates the rewarding and meaningful impact that one individual can make. Funders would be able to curate their experience on the app according to the type of work, the type ofl artist, the region they want to support, or even their giving terms. I am looking for a think-partner in the tech space who values the-artist-making-art and the-wealthy-making-an-impact and who sees the potential of IMPRESARIO to bring ease, reliability, and directness to arts funding in America.