Clips featured in this video
“Projection, Body, and Storytelling,” the class I taught in the spring semester of 2020 at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, in their Center for Immersive Media program.
2-hour workshop at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, working with dancers and illustrators, centered around live drawing, projection, and bodies.
4-part Zoom workshop for UMass Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts, working with poetry students from Noy Holland’s class. The class resulted in a collection of short videos of performances using compositions in shadow along with the spoken poetry of the participants.
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2020
I had a semester-long teaching fellowship in 2020 at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, in their Center for Immersive Media program.
I taught a class titled “Projection, Body, and Storytelling.” The class comprised students from various backgrounds, from painting and acting to digital arts. Over the course of three months (two in person and one month on Zoom after COVID shutdowns) the students were given prompts and frameworks to make projection-based compositions as installations and performances.
Denison University, 2020
In combination with my performances at their Tutti Festival, Denison University in Granville, Ohio, arranged a 2-hour workshop to work with select dancers and illustrators. The workshop centered around live drawing, projection, and bodies. Using a document projector and plenty of art supplies (large paper, pens, crayons, scissors, etc.), the workshop started with simple composition prompts to experiment; then the students got into 3 groups and, using a 12-minute song, each group was challenged to make a 4-minute performance using projections and bodies that can be strung together in an exquisite corpse-style piece that continues for the duration of the song.
UMass Amherst 4-part Zoom workshop, 2021
Through the UMass Fine Arts Center, this engagement featured a streamed presentation of Infinitely Yours, an artist talk and talk-back, and a collaboration with students from Noy Holland’s poetry class to create a shadow performance. As this was still during COVID online learning, each student made their projects with resources they had at home, such as paper, plants, knick-knacks, bedsheets, flashlights, and smartphones. The class resulted in a collection of short videos of performances using compositions in shadow, along with the spoken poetry of the participants, centered around themes of anthropogenic climate change and climate grief.
CalArts 2 week workshop, 2017
This very freeform workshop was some of the most fun I’ve had as a facilitator/teacher.
