25 Years Old, and still acting a fool 🤡
This Birthday, possibly more than ever, I feel seen, I feel understood, I feel loved.
Photo by the incomparable @rush_johnston on our way to the Gaga concert last night ❤️
A long overdue sharing of some shots from “Homonculus”. It was such an honor and joy to have co-choreographed this work with @angela.cara.smith and we truly couldn’t have asked for a better cast. As I move on from UMD, it is memories like these that will last. I love these people so dearly and I know that this won’t be our final collaboration 💜🧔🏻♀️✨
Performed 11/24 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Photos by Sarah Snyder
Beard by Jamie 💅
👯🧶 “I Resist This” is a 30-minute performance featuring two dancers activating soft-sculpture wearables scored by an innovative original soundscape. Using movement languages of weight-sharing and improvisation, the pair of performers interface with squishy, body-like sculptures to explore the inherent tension between independence and interdependence.
“I Resist This” is:
@nonbinarybutler@ppattengill@charbroiled
✨🎧Join us at @Hirshhorn May 31 - June 1 @soundscenefest is a free, all-ages celebration of sonic and sensory arts m featuring artists from Washington, D.C. and around the world.
🍄🍄 This year, we celebrate working together - symbiosis, partnerships, and the ways differences can be complementary and lead to a more vibrant world.
Poster Design: @ashfarrand.design
📸: Taneen Momeni, Tim Kelly, Rush Johnston, Dillon Meyers
For updates visit: https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/
sound-scene-2025-2/
#SoundScene #SoundSceneFest #SoundArt #InteractiveFestival #SoundAndSight #Hirshhorn #livedance #WashingtonDC #Museum #AudioFestival #Mushrooms
Image Descriptions:
Image 1: Two performers dressed in black. An orange neon tube of fabric connects their heads, obscuring their faces. The performers appear to be running and pulling the tube taut.
Image 2: A white person with short brown curly hair is pictured against a green background. The person is wearing a blue-collared shirt and is photographed from the shoulders up.
Image 3: A white person with shoulder-length brown hair is pictured against a white background. The person is wearing a black shirt and is photographed from the shoulders up.
Image 4: A smiling white woman with brown hair and blue glasses is wearing an orange shirt and patchwork jeans. She is pictured from the waist up, standing in front of a white wall and a window. The table in front of her contains fabric and a sewing machine.
Image 5: Process photo of the assembly of the icosahedron Cells. Each Cell houses a speaker, a motion sensor, and a microcomputer for communication with the Brain of the installation.
Image 6: Multicolor foraging mushrooms burst out of the center of the Sound Scene: Connected poster for 2025.
Scream Queen 🩸🔪
Gradually sharing some moments and pictures from my Thesis concert earlier this semester while I continue to type my culminating paper. I still can’t believe that we were able to make this concert a reality. I’m heading into my final semester of Grad School incredibly proud of the work I have done and once grateful for all those who have supported me on the way.
Project Collaborators:
Costume Design: @colinfranz
Lighting Design: @maariah_designs
Scenic Design: @stepermeister
Media Design: @seanprestonprojections
Sound Design: @evanthanicatt
Photos by Teneen Momeni (More to come soon)
Meet my drag persona, “Shingles”
This weekend has truly been a highlight of my life. I premiered my work “Scream Queen” which is a culminating thesis of my work and research at UMD. In this moment, I feel loved, seen, supported, and proud. I am so deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to share my work with so many of the people I love the most in this world. I will cherish this moment forever. And to the many that collaborated on this concert, I can not thank you enough for making my dreams (nightmares?) come true. Christina and Daniel, I am so honored to have shared a concert with you all. I am so glad to have had you as friends and collaborators from beginning to end. Whether you worked on the show, traveled to come see the concert, gave an extra set of eyes in rehearsal, or even texted wishing me luck, you all have allowed me to see just how loved I am, and that is a gift I will never forget.
Okay, enough sappy typing for the night. More photos from the performance to come soon!
Big big shoutout to @colinfranz for designing this killer look. You helped my scare so many audience members, and that is priceless
6 more days till the premiere of Scream Queen! Still enough time to get a ticket!!!!
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2024/fall-mfa-dance-thesis-concert
A cute lil backstage pic from @angela.cara.smith
Costume by @colinfranz
The premiere of my MFA Thesis Concert, “Scream Queen” is only 3 weeks away! I am so excited to share this work with you all. “Scream Queen” is a solo work that explores queer expression through a lens of horror aesthetics. I hope to share with you, the gory, the glamorous, and the beauty that exists within the grotesque. Also incredibly excited to be sharing the stage with @daniel_________m and @christinacollins__ who are sure to bring incredible work of their own.
October 25th -27th
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Tickets available below!
https://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2024/fall-mfa-dance-thesis-concert
Scenic design: Sophia Tepermeister @stepermeister
Costume design: Colin Franz @colinfranz
Lighting design: Mariah Faulkner @xoxriahxox
Media Design: Sean Preston
Sound Design: Evan Thanicatt
Thinking about “NEVER IN OUR IMAGE” and this incredible cast today. These images are from Act II of @mercedes_theartist ‘s three act gun-destruction opera enacted last summer. Can not express how much the artists involved in this process, pictured and not pictured, have continued to inspire me since.
Photos by: @amirpourmand
Feeling so inspired by this group of incredible artists. Experimenting, researching, and generally just being blobs. If this excites you, we will be presenting the research on March 5th at UMD thanks to the Jim Henson Foundation for funding this project. Come support and enjoy our amorphous sculpture garden.
Dancers:
Jalen Rose
Angela Smith
Henry Santer
C. Macko
Eli Kaufman
