Ph.D

New York University, 2007-2015

Performance Studies

Dissertation: “Dancing There: Spaces of Contemporary Choreography”

Committee: André Lepecki (Chair), Barbara Browning, Mark Franko, Danielle Goldman, Tavia Nyong’o (committee members)

M.A. 

New York University, 2006-2007

Performance Studies

B.A. 

University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994-1998

Theater Arts, emphasis in Dance

2023

2019

Murray Jackson Creative Scholar in the Arts, Wayne State University

Faculty Creative/Research Fellowship, Wayne State University

2016

Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow in Live Arts

2015

DAAD-Gastlehrstuhl Antonin Artaud Fellow, University of the Arts Bremen

2014

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Grantee

2013

Mellon Dance Studies Summer Seminar Fellow, Brown University

2013

Hombroich International Summer Program Fellowship, Insel Hombroich

2008-

2011

Corrigan Fellow, New York University

2024

Europeras (performance; director: Yuval Sharon), Detroit Opera, Gem Theatre, Detroit

2023

Becoming Epiphyte (choreography and performance), The Dance Palace, Pt. Reyes Station, CA

concrète: a new dance (choreography and performance), Matéria Gallery, Detroit

Exoskeleton (performance and installation), Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit

2022

Cities of the Interior (choreography and performance), Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn

la boheme (actor; director Yuval Sharon), Detroit Opera, Detroit Opera House, MI, and Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC

BackBody (performance of three-hour improvisation, musician-composer collaborator Jon Brumit), Galerie Camille, Detroit

A DREAM IS A HOUSE for remembering the future (choreography and direction; collaboration with composer Joo Won Park), McGregor Conference Center, Detroit

2021

Sonic Gathering (performance; choreography by Brandon Cowlles, music John King), NYC, zoom

BLISS (Lead actor; performance by Ragnar Kjartansson, director Yuval Sharon), Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit

GOD KNOWS WHERE (choreography and performance with Modern Garage Movement), Prospect Park, Brooklyn; Rustic Theater, Idyllwild, Henry Miller Library, Big Sur; Mary Gordon Beach house, La Sevla Beach, SafeHouse, San Francisco, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol

Darmstadt’s Terry Riley’s In C (performance with MGM), Make Music New York, Brooklyn

Cities of the Interior (choreography, performance, film), Galerie Camille, Detroit

2020

Sonic Gathering (performance; choreography by Brandon Cowlles, Music John King), NYC, zoom

Twilight: Gods (performance; director Yuval Sharon), Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit

9 Interludes (choreography and performance), Klemm Gallery/Studio Angelico, zoom

2019

excavating the room (choreography and performance), Jam Handy and Playhouse, Detroit; Lions Jaw Festival, Boston

Scene Splash (choreography and performance), Bizarre Bazaar, College for Creative Studies, Detroit

Midsommar, private commission, Harold Turner house, Bloomfield Hills, MI

for Ruth, Jack White Theatre, Detroit

2018

Violent Shakes (performance with ADULT.), City Airport, Detroit

Hustle on the Sand, Beach Sessions, Rockaway Beach, NY

Instrumental (collaboration with Sowande Keita), Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

2017

Hustle in the Park (diptych, evening length work for park and theatre), Roulette, Brooklyn and Nellie’s Lawn, Prospect Park

BODY FACTORY (collaboration with Jessie Gold), Bas Fisher Invitational, multiple locations, Detroit

Would you like to dance? (participatory, durational performance), Shell & Glimpse, Pulitzer Art Museum, St. Louis

Souci de Soi: AUDREY JOHNSON (nine-week performance installation), Elaine Jacob Gallery, Detroit, reinstalled at ParaPet Real Humans, St. Louis (2017)

Makom (performance for Frauke Dannert installation), Johanneskirsche, Dusseldorf, Germany

2016

Set of Seven (in collaboration with Cuppatelli and Mendoza, choreography for 7 dancers), Detroit Homecoming, Max Fisher Recital Hall, Detroit

It Never Really Happened: Part Two (six evenings of performance), Mies Van der Rohe apartment, Lafayette Park, Detroit

together (evening length piece for 7 dancers), JACK NY, Brooklyn, NY

It Never Really Happened: Part One, Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami

2015

Dequindre Cut Dance Lab (with composer Frank Pahl and visual artist Nick Cave), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills and the Masonic Temple, Detroit

à residence (video and performance, gallery installation), Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany

It Never Really Happened: Part One, Mies Van der Rohe apartment, Lafayette Park, Detroit

Smell, Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit

Cabinet (with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe), The Cranbrook Hall of Wonders, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills

Women Dancing with the Spirits: No. 1 (with Nicola Kuperus), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)

2014

Orbit Design (with New Music Detroit), Trinosophes, Detroit 

Assembly (WSU repertory), Bonstelle Theater, Detroit

(Cont.), Ditto Ditto Books, Detroit

Plume (with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe), After Hours Series, Times Square Arts and Clocktower Gallery, NYC

2013

It Never Really Happened (Cont.), Graubner Pavilion, Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany; Visual Art Center, University of Texas, Austin

Cold Vein, Contemporary Dancing (curated by Sam Gordon and Café Dancer), New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Fair, NYC and Miami (2013); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (2012); Roulette, Brooklyn, NY (2012) 

Communion (with Sameer Reddy), Cutlog Art Fair, NYC

Reindeer (WSU repertory), Bonstelle Theater, Detroit

OPEN, Cathedral of St. Paul, Dlectricity Nuit Blanche, Detroit

2012

The Endless Pace (with Davide Balula), Garage for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2012); Danser Sa Vie, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011); Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario (2010); Performa, NYC (2009) 

THE BELLS, The Jam Handy, Detroit; The Garage, San Francisco; Roulette, Brooklyn

Mouth w/ Objects, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY (2012, 2011); Picasso Machinery, Brooklyn (2011) 

2011

NUT (with MGM Grand), West Coast Cruise, 12 performances, multiple venues in Los Angeles, Big Sur, Bay Area, Occidental, Portland (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2011); The Kitchen, NYC (2011); Kresge Theater, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2010) 

2010

Performances for No One (with MGM Grand), various locations, MIT, Cambridge

Oneness: Making It With Love (solo), The Dancers (curated by Anthony Huberman), Artissima, Turin, Italy

Oneness: Making It With Love (with MGM Grand), Detroit Night, Creative Time Pavilion, Miami Art Basel, West Coast Tour, 26 performances, multiple venues in Los Angeles, Joshua Tree, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, Bay Area, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, Portland; Calicoon Fine Arts, Calicoon, NY

Blanket Dance (with MGM Grand), Facade/Fasad, Brooklyn

Royce (with MGM Grand), Dance Gives Drama (curated by Lucy Sexton and Charles Atlas), Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, NYC (2010); 555 Gallery and Studios, Detroit (2009); Goods N Things, Hamtramck (2009); The Lot, Detroit (2009) 

2009

Tonight (with MGM Grand), XXX Macarena (with Tony Conrad), The Kitchen, NYC (2009); Boffo: Objective Affection, Brooklyn (2009); Calicoon Fine Arts, Calicoon, NY (2009); Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC (2009) 

New Gree (with MGM Grand), PaceWildenstein Gallery (invitation from Alex Katz), NYC (2009); Democracy Now!, Park Avenue Armory, NYC (2008); Summer Tour, 44 performances, multiple venues, New York, NY; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, Big Sur, Bay Area, Sonoma County, CA; Portland, OR (2008); Austrian Cultural Forum: Transversality Lab, Movement Research Festival, Judson Memorial Church, NYC (2008) 

Kilterstase, Archeography IV (with Live Architecture Network), SuperFront Gallery, Movement Research Festival, Brooklyn, NY

(2022) A DREAM IS A HOUSE for remembering the future // Screendance in collaboration with Noah Elliott Morrison

(2021) Cities of the Interior // 8mm film installation and stills, Galerie Camille, Detroit

(2019) Poet-Ease // Music video for Underspeche

(2018) Violent Shakes // Music video for ADULT.

(2018) Plaisance // video installation and stills, Reyes | Finn Project, Detroit

(2016) Untitled Experiment of the Modern Gaze // 360 degree video in collaboration with Oren Goldenberg, Popps Packing, Detroit

(2015-16) à residence // Three channel video shot onsite at Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany, N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit

(2015) It Never Really Happened // (with Christine Hucal) two channel video

(2015) Support Systems No. 1 // (photograph diptych, with Nicola Kuperus) Simone de Sousa Gallery, Detroit

(2013) Siza Study // Single channel video shot onsite at the Siza Pavilion, Raketenstation, Hombroich, Germany

(2013) All the Sweet (with 8th Grader) Music video shot onsite at the Jam Handy, Detroit

(2006) Aether // Single channel video, collaboration with Dillon de Give, on collection at Cinedans, Amsterdam, and Visual Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM

(2017-18) Skybox // (choreography Walter Dundervill) New York Live Arts (2018), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2017)

(2017)Manifesto // (performance for Maya Stovall presentation) Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

(2013-14) Premiere // (choreography Maria Hassabi) Het Veem Theatre, Amsterdam, Nederlands (2015); Steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria  (2014); River to River Festival, NYC (2014); NEAT festival, Nottingham (2014); Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, Göteborg (2014); Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2014); XING, Bologna, Italy (2014); Performa 13, The Kitchen, NYC (2013) 

(2012) The Guiding Light // (choreography Jillian Peña) The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City

(2010) VAULT // (choreography Façade/Fasad) Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City; Salomon Contemporary Gallery, NYC (2012)

(2011) The Ladies // (director Maria Hassabi) The Kitchen and various locations, NYC

(2011) Aesthetic Destiny: Candy Mountain // (choreography Walter Dundervill) Dance Theater Workshop, NYC

(2010) Dear Emissary // (choreography Walter Dundervill) The Chocolate Factory, LIC

(2010) In the Midst // (director Valeska Soares) Eleven Rivington Gallery, NYC

(2008-09) Jandek // Eisner Theater, New York University, NYC (2009); Lydia Mendelson Theater, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2008) 

(2005-2011, 2021) MGM Grand (Modern Garage Movement), New York, Los Angeles, Detroit

(2009-2018) Walter Dundervill, NYC

(2011-2014)  Maria Hassabi, NYC, Europe

(2010-2013) FAÇADE/FASAD, Gabriel Rivera, NYC

(2011- 2013) Xavier Cha, NYC

(2012) Jillian Peña, NYC

(2010) Paige Martin, NYC

(2010) Stanley Love Performance Group, NYC

(2007-2009) Nancy Garcia, NYC

(2006) Kathleen Hermesdorf, San Francisco

(2001-2004) David Hurwith/Antediluvians, NYC and Northampton

(1998-1999) Labayen Dance/SF, San Francisco

(1996-1999) Mel Wong Dance Company, Santa Cruz and San Francisco

(2023) Artist Residency, Another Audience, Black Hole Hollow, VT

(2021) Participant and Presenter, Ecosomatics Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

(2021) Artist Residency with Modern Garage Movement (Jmy James Kidd, Paige Martin and composer Gelsey Bell), Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY

(2018) Residency Writer, Neal Greenberg Dances, Maggie Allesee National Choreography Center, Tallahassee, FL

(2018) Curator and director, CityLab Detroit Performance Showcase, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

(2016) Co-curator/organizer, AUNTS X DETROIT (Performance event with artists from NYC and Detroit), The Jam Handy, Detroit

(2016) organizer, This is Performance, artist talk series, Trinosophes, Detroit

(2015) Artist Residency, Here Hear, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

(2015) Artist Residency, Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany

(2013-14 )Artist Residencies (with Maria Hassabi): Kaai Studios, Brussels (2014); Performing Arts Forum (Pa-f), St Erme, France; Mt. Tremper Arts, NY (2013), The Kitchen, NYC (2013)

(2013-2015) Co-presenter, Dance at Trinosophes, Detroit

(2013) Artist Residency, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas Austin

(2013) Summer Fellow, The Insel Hombroich Foundation, Germany

(2011) Artist and Choreography Residency, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Portland, OR

(2011) Presenter, Thinkathon, Center for Creative Research, New York University, NY

(2010) Artist Residency, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dance Department, Boston, MA

(2010) Artist Residency, The Wooden Floor, Los Angeles, CA

(2009) Artist Residency, 555 Studios and Gallery, Detroit, MI

(2008) Curator, Collision, Mission Creek Music Festival, New Langton Arts, San Francisco

(2008) Participant, iLAND: Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn

(2007) Participant, March2Marfa, Marfa

(2007) Participant, iLAND: The Language of the Listening Body, NYC

(2006) Curator and producer, OtherDANCE Festival, San Francisco, Oakland

(2003) Founder, Million Fishes Yoga Studio and Galleries, San Francisco

(2003) Artist Residency, Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.), Brussels

(Forthcoming 2022) Interview, “Vito Acconci,” Detroit Research V3

(2020) Interview, “Biba Bell in Conversation with Neil Greenberg,” Critical Correspondence, Movement Research Publishing

(2020) Interview, “Biba Bell in Conversation with Opal Ingle, Kyli Kleven, and Omagbitse Omagbemi,” Critical Correspondence, Movement Research Publishing

(2020) Photo collage print, “Glissando,” Detroit Sequential, Rotland Press

(2020) Keynote Moderator, “Performing Black Futures,” Performance Studies Focus Group at Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

(2020) Conference Paper, “It Takes a Village yet We Have a Planet and… the radical work of Stanley Love,” Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

(2020) Essay, “Memory work: Excavating the room,” Movement Research Performance Journal, Movement Research Publishing

(2019) Conference paper, “Pleasure snare: being-in-common in the work of luciana achugar,” Dance Studies Association, Northwestern

(2019) Conference paper, “Dancing from Outside: Modern Garage Movement’s Lines of Desire,” Performance Studies International, University of Calgary

(Jan. 22, 2019) Article, “Dancing in the streets,” The Detroit Socialist

(Dec. 2018) Catalogue Essay, “Rumination in Seven Parts: of The Gray Series,” Addie Langford at Hill Gallery

(Summer 2018) Double Book Review, “The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci By Elise Archias and Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972 Edited by Ninotchka Bennahum, Wendy Perron, Bruce Robertson,” The Drama Review Vol 62, No 2, MIT Press, 2

(July 2018) Conference paper, “Figuring Footwork: Nora Chipaumire’s boxing ring and the battles of Detroit’s Jit,” Dance Studies Association Annual Conference (DSA), Malta

(July 2018) Essay, “Leslie Rodgers,” Essay’d, Wayne State University Press

(2017) Conference paper, “Dancing in the fray: Nick Cave’s sonorous bodies in Detroit (or the choreopolitics of walking down the middle of the street),” Performance Studies International, Hamburg, Germany

(2017) Article, “Slow Work,” Xing Live Arts Week Catalogue, Bolognia, Italy

(2016) Book Review. “Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance by Bojana Cvejić,” Dance Research Journal

(2016) Guest Editor, Detroit Research’s special issue on Choreography; includes contributions on LGBT urban and affective commons, mapping events and geographies of memory, experimental art and ethnographic praxis, Liquor Store Theater, Detroit’s voguing community, experimental narrative in Arab performance

(2015) Essay, “Dance as a promiscuous mode of dwelling,” Critical Correspondence

(2012 – current) Editorial Board, Detroit Research, Journal of Artistic Practice and Thought

(2014-2016) Co-Editor, Critical Correspondence, Movement Research Publishing; recent articles include interviews with Chris Sharp, Neil Greenberg, Cathy Weis, Rebecca Bruno of homeLA, Maya Stovall

(Oct. 2015) Peer Reviewer, Research in Dance Education (2015-present), Annotated Bibliography on Rachel Rosenthal, Pastelegram, No. 5

(Sept. 2015) Lecture, “Performance and Architecture in Detroit,” University of Ghent, Masters of Architecture department

(April 2015) Lecture, “’WOULD YOU LIKE TO DANCE?’ Dance as a Promiscuous Mode of Dwelling,” Hochschule für Künste (University of the Arts), Bremen, Germany

(March 2015) Photo Essay, “Apartment Dancing,” Infinite Mile, Issue 15

(Feb. 2015) Article, “Dance as a Promiscuous Mode of Dwelling,” Sound American Journal, “The Ritual Issue”

(Spring/Fall 2014) Article, “My Own Private Dance Studio,” Detroit Research, Vol 1

(2014)  Article, “Slow Work: Dance’s Immaterial Labor in the Visual Sphere,” Performance Research Journal 9:13, Taylor and Francis

(2014) Article, “Notes on Dancing in Detroit,” Movement Research Journal, Movement Research Publishing

(2013) Conference Paper, “Slow Work: Dance’s Immaterial Labor in the work of Olafur Eliasson and Maria Hassabi,” Performance Studies International #19 Conference (PSi), Stanford

(2013) Summer Fellow, Mellon Summer Seminar Dance Studies in/and the Humanities, Brown University

(2013) Panelist, Ralph Lemon Artist Panel, Detroit Institute of the Arts

(2013) Lecture, "Viscerality, Movement and the Outside,” Fisher Center, Hobart and Williams Colleges

(2012) Lecture, "Post (Para?) Studio Dance: A Walk through the Labyrinth," Studies Project, Movement Research Festival, New York City

(2011-2012) Context writer, New York Live Arts, writing on the work of Emily Johnson, John Kelly, Rachid Ouramdane, Richard Move, Yvonne Meier

(2010) Conference Paper, “Inscribing the Surfaces of the City,” Performance Studies International #16 Conference (PSi), Ontario School of Art and Design

(2009) Writer, Performa 09, Critical Correspondence, Movement Research Publishing

(2009) Catalogue essay, The ARCHEOGRAPHY PROJECT Series, Exhibition Catalogue, Superfront Gallery

(2009) Conference Paper, “Shifting Site, Affective Virtuosity: Meditations on a Post-Urban Parking Garage,” American Studies Association Conference (ASA), Washington DC

(2009) Conference Paper, “Melting the Mirror,” Dance Across the Boards Conference, New York University

(2008) Participant, “Into the Folds,” SenseLab with Dr. Erin Manning, Brian Massumi and Steven Shaviro, Montréal

(2008) Article, “Curating a Collision,” IN Dance, Dancers’ Group Publishing

(2016-Current) Assistant Professor, Maggie Allesee Department of Theater and Dance, Wayne State University (WSU)

(2015-16) Lecturer, Maggie Allesee Department of Theater and Dance, Wayne State University (WSU)

(2015) Visiting Professor of Experimental Performance (Gastprofessorin für Experimentelle Aufführungsformen zwischen Kunst und Musik), University of the Arts (Hochschule für Künste), Bremen, Germany (HFK)

(2010-14) Adjunct Professor, Maggie Allesee Department of Theater and Dance, Wayne State University (WSU)

(2010-11) Teaching Assistant/Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University (NYU)

(2021, 2019, 2017) College for Creative Studies - Guest Artist in Digital Media and Time-based art

(2019) Lion’s Jaw Performance Festival - Faculty Artist

(2019) Harvard University - Guest Artist in Visual Studies

(2016) New York University - Guest Artist in Performance Studies

(2016) “Affect and Environs: to live is to leave traces” Reading Group, MELT summer intensive, Movement Research, NYC - Facilitator

(2015) Movement Research Studies Project, “Dance and Publish Salon,” Gibney Studios, NYC - Facilitator

(2014) Lecture and Workshop, Sculpture Department, College for Creative Studies - Visiting Artist

(2014) “Swallowed up in Mise en Scène” Reading Group, MELT summer intensive, Movement Research, NYC - Facilitator

(2013) Workshop and Performance, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin - Visiting Artist

(2013) Lecture and Workshop, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, Hobart and Williams Colleges - Visiting Artist

(2011) Repertory, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR - Visiting Artist

(2011) Lecture and Workshop by invitation of DeFrantz, Dance Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA - Visiting Artist

(2011) Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley, CA - Workshop

(2010) Lecture and Studio Visits, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR - Visiting Artist

(2010) Performance, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA - Visiting Artist

(2010) “Dancing for Dancers” Pieter PASD, Los Angeles, CA - Workshop

(2010) “Moving Textures,” ClassClassClass, NYC - Workshop

(2009) “Dancing Body/Site,” ClassClassClass, NYC - Workshop

(2008) Site-specific dance workshop at Judson Memorial Church, Movement Research Festival, NYC - Workshop

(2008) Farmlab, Los Angeles, CA - Workshop with MGM

(2007) “Of Body/Site,” American Dance Festival (ADF), Durham, NC - Workshop