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EDUCATION  

2023 PhD, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Dissertation: Embodied Refusals: Transnational Feminist Performance in the Face of Gendered Violence 

Committee Members: Dr. Susan Manning (Chair), Dr. Jennifer C. Nash, Dr. Marcela Fuentes

Cognate on Intersections of Transnational and Black Feminisms with Dr. Jennifer C. Nash

2018 MA, Performance Studies, Northwestern University

2009 BA, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and Political Science, UC Berkeley  

MAJOR WORKS, CHOREOGRAPHER

2023 Lineage (Solo), Velocity Dance Center’s Next Fest NW, Seattle, WA

2023 Lineage, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR

2021 Granular Peripheries, Edge Theater, Presented by Pivot Arts, Chicago, IL

2020 Granular Peripheries

Presented by Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

The Play House, Detroit, MI

2019 Granular Peripheries, Part of Dwellings, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL

2018 Granular Peripheries

Research Project, OuterSpace, Chicago, IL

In Motion Graduate Student Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2017 Apparatus, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR

2015-2016 it’s like this out there, it’s like this in here

Take it All On, Take it All Back, Fresh Oysters Performance Research, Minneapolis, MN, 2016

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2016

FRONT Distribution Event, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA, 2016

Space_Time_Space, Shout House, Portland, OR, 2015

Critical Engagement, Flock Dance Center, Portland, OR, 2015

Pure Surface Anniversary, Holocene, Portland, OR, 2015

AmeriSHOWZ, LACUNA, Portland, OR, 2015  

2014 Togetherness, BodyVox Dance Center, Portland, OR

2012 To Remember is to Jump Around There, Headwaters Theater, Portland, OR 

2010 Home/Body with video artist Dustin Zemel, Appendix Projects Space, Portland,OR

2010 Make the Air Thick, Launchpad Gallery, Portland, OR 

RECENT PRESS (*FULL PRESS LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST)

2023. Lineage (Solo), Seattle Times

2023 Lineage, Oregon Arts Watch

2021 Granular Peripheries, Chicago Reader

2020 Moving From Memory, New City Stage

ARTISTIC GRANTS

2022 Make|Learn| Build Grant for Lineage (2023), Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon  ($5,000)

2017 Project Grant for Apparatus, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon ($5,468)

2016 Career Grant for it’s like this out there, it’s like this in here, Oregon Arts Commission, Portland, Oregon ($1,500)

2015 Precipice Fund for FRONT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art/Andy Warhol Foundation, Portland, Oregon

($3,700)

2014 Project Grant for Togetherness, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon ($4,654)

2013 Precipice Fund for FRONT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art/Andy Warhol Foundation, Portland, Oregon

SELECTED MAJOR WORKS, PERFORMER

2024 In Preparation for Disappearances to Come, Linda Austin, Location/Date TBA

2021 Inception: ETHOS, Episode II, Ayako Kato (Japan), South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2020 A world, a world, Linda Austin, Performance Works Northwest, Portland, OR (Restaging)

2019 To The Shore: ETHOS, Episode I, Ayako Kato (Japan), Colvin House, Pivot Arts Festival, Chicago, IL

2019 ALL: A Physical Poem of Protest, Mia Habib (Oslo), PICA, TBA Festival, Portland, OR

2018 After, Andrew Schneider and alicia-ayo ohs (New York), Lincoln Hall, TBA Festival, PICA, Portland, OR

2017 A world, a world, Linda Austin, Performance Works Northwest, Portland, OR

2017 Corbeaux, Bouchra Ouizguen (Morocco), PICA, TBA Festival, Portland, OR

2016 Phoebe Zeitgeist, Liminal Theater, Disjecta Contemporary Arts, Portland, OR

2016 The Last Bell Rings for You, Linda Austin, Shaking the Tree, Portland, OR

2015 Nothing to You, MPA (Los Angeles), Disjecta Contemporary Arts, TBA Festival, PICA, Portland, OR

2015 (un)Made, Linda Austin, Performance Works Northwest, Portland, OR

2015 CHOIR, Taka Yamamoto (Japan) with Jesse Mejia and Jonathan Sielaff, Reed College, Dance+ by Conduit

Dance, Portland, OR

2012 A Head of Time, Linda Austin, Imago Theater, Portland, OR

2011 A Crack in Everything: Installed, Zoe|Juniper (Seattle), Lincoln Hall, TBA Festival, PICA, Portland, OR

2011 Loose Hands Lunging, Lu Yim, Headwaters Theater, Portland, OR

SELECTED ARTISTIC TEACHING

2024 Critical Dance Studies (Upcoming), Portland, OR

2024 Queer Contemporary (For Hannah Krafcik), New Expressive Works, Portland, OR

2024 SURFACES: Contemporary Release Technique and Floorwork, Dekum Street Theater, Portland, OR

2020 Moving From Memory: Training Towards the Ghostly, Resistant, and Collective, Workshop, Dance Center of

Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2018 Rehearsal Director, Some Were Carried, Some - Dragged Behind, Eglé Budvytyte, Renaissance Society,

Chicago, IL 

2016 Feedback Looping: Self Identity and Interdisciplinary Performance, Workshop, University of Nebraska, Lincoln,

NE and Fresh Oysters Performance Research, Minneapolis, MN

2016 DANCE/QUESTION, Workshop with FRONT, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Getting to Togetherness: The Body and Community Practice, Workshop, Reed College, Portland, OR

2014 Field Guide: Luke George’s Not About Face, Facilitator with FRONT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s

Field Guide Series, PICA, Portland, OR

2014 Field Guide: Zoe|Juniper’s BeginAgain, Facilitator with FRONT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Field

Guide Series, On the Boards, Seattle, WA

2013 Field Guide: Trajal Harrell’s Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, Facilitator with FRONT,

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Field Guide Series, CoHo Theater, Portland, OR

2010 Contemporary Technique, Conduit Dance, Portland, OR  

2010 Generating an Environment: Improvisation and Writing Practices for Performance, Workshop, Heavy Rotation

Series, Studio 2, Portland, OR

SELECTED ACADEMIC TEACHING

Instructor of Record

2021 Transnational Feminist Performance, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University

2020 The Analysis and Performance of Literature, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University

2020 Modern I Dance Technique, Department of Dance, Northwestern University

Teaching Assistant

2020-2021 Teaching Assistantship, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University

2021 Trans* Cinema, Course, Prof. Nick Davis, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University

2020 Traditions in Feminist Thought, Course, Prof. Paola Zamperini, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Northwestern

University 

SELECTED SHOWS, CURATOR

2019 It’s More Like the Weather and Less Like an Object: John Cage and Dance, co-curator, objects selected from

the Cage Collection at Northwestern University, part of the Dance Studies Association Annual Conference,

Charles Deering Memorial Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2019 Dwellings, curator, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL

2019 CARE-full, co-curator, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2012-2018 Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland, performance curator, varying venues, Portland, OR

2017 Training the Political Body, workshop with Ann Cooper Albright, FLOCK Dance Center, Portland, OR

2014-2017 Pure Surface (series featuring poets, performers and video artists), co-founder with Stacey Tran, 12

installments, various venues, Portland, OR 

2013 No Exit, performance by Christine Bonansea Salut (France/San Francisco), Performance Works Northwest,

Portland, OR

2011 Alembic #12, Performance by FACT/SF (San Francisco), Guest Curator: Alembic Series, Performance

WorksNorthwest, Portland, OR

RESIDENCIES, INTERVIEWS, ARTIST TALKS, AND LEADERSHIP ROLES

2021 Artist-in-Residence (dancer): Trillium Arts Residency (dancer for Ayako Kato’s residency), Trillium Arts, Mars

Hill, North Carolina

2011-2018 Board Member: Creative Music Guild: Non-Profit Dedicated to Experimental Music and Performance, Portland

2018 Rehearsal Director: Some Were Carried, Some - Dragged Behind, Eglé Budvytyte, Renaissance Society Benefit,

Chicago

2011-2016 Co-founder of FRONT, Newspaper Dedicated to Contemporary Performance:  

Edition 1: Moves When Folded (2011), Edition 2: vitus (2012), Edition 3: Rubies (2013), Edition 4: Buoy (2014),

Edition 5 (untitled, 2016) (includes Portland, national and international artists/collaborators)

2014 Invited Participant: JuneMAGIK, collective for west coast choreographers, San Francisco

2014 Panelist: The Artist and the Political, Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland Roundtable

Discussion, Sandbox Studios, Portland

2013 Artist-in-Residence: Resource Room Residency (FRONT), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland

2013 Panel Facilitator: Contemporary Artist Identities and Process, Dance+ at Conduit Dance, Portland

2013 Artist-in-Residence: NEW Residency, Studio 2, Portland

2013 Panelist: Re-Envisioning the Artist’s Role, Conduit Dance, Portland 

2012 Radio Appearance: Spotlighting Contemporary Performance in Portland/Conduit Dance Anniversary with Tere

Mathern, KBOO, Portland

2012 Radio Appearance: History of Performance and Experimental Music in Portland with John Niekrasz, KZME,

Portland

2012 Artist Talk: Scores Across Discipline with Christi Denton, The Lucky Penny, Atlanta, Georgia

2012 Artist Talk and Demonstration: Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition with Christi Denton, Georgia

Tech, Atlanta

2011 Presentation: Boundaries of Defined Performance: Embodiment and Found Movement, Research Club, Gallery

Homeland, Portland

SMALLER WORKS, CHOREOGRAPHER     

2022 Crossings, with Mike Gamble and Rich Perrin, Presented by Performance Works Northwest

2020 Steps, with Ben Kates, Goathaus, Portland

2017 In the Cracks, with Chloe Alexandra Thompson, curated by Golden Retriever, Holocene, Portland

2017 Apparatus (In Progress), Nationale Gallery, Portland

2015 Interval/Habitat, Response to Byron Westbrook’s sound and light installation, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center,

Portland

2015 In the Spirit of Jean Dupuy’s 1974 Soup & Tart, Historic 1857 Building, Portland

2015 Space Material/Immaterial with filmmaker Jeremy Moss and poet Stacey Tran, Pure Surface, Clinton Street

Theater, Portland

2014 Response to Ferguson with Lisa Schonberg, Bill of Goods, Holocene, Portland

2014 Untitled improvisation, Unit Souzou Benefit, Studio 2, Portland

2014 3X3 with Edward Sharp, False Front Gallery, Portland

2014 Untitled improvisation with Mary Oliver and Han Benink, Lutheran Redeemer, Portland

2014 Artist Talk/Performance on Bruce Nauman with Jen Delos Reyes, Portland Art Museum, Portland

2014 Sensory Walk with Prison Corps, Performance Works Northwest, Portland

2013-2014 Togetherness (in progress):

A Reading, Valentines, Portland, 2014

Togetherness Benefit, Holocene, Portland, 2014 

Recess Gallery Benefit, Holocene, Portland, 2014 

Bull in a China Shop: Allie Hankins Benefit, Studio 2, Portland, 2014 

Sea/Port, Conduit Dance, Portland, 2013  

Seattle International Dance Festival, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 2013 

Alembic Series, Performance Works Northwest, Portland, 2013  

2013-2014 It’s OK Girl with Ben Kates:

Revival Drum Shop, Portland, 2014

Multiplex Gallery, Portland, 2013

Piano Fort, Portland, 2013  

2013 Re:Construction, Conduit Dance, Portland 

2013 Untitled with Taka Yamamoto and Reed Wallsmith, House of Desires at Place Gallery, Portland

2013 Simultaneous Solos with Edward Sharp, Port City Gallery, Portland

2012 Loveliest Landscape, Installed, Foreman Festival, Performance Works Northwest, Portland  

2012 John Cage Tribute, curated by Mack McFarland, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland

2012 Loveliest Landscape with Christi Denton, Dance+ juried festival, Conduit Dance, Portland 

2012 Ten Tiny Dances with Jordan Dykstra, Beaverton Arts and Culture Commission, Beaverton

2012 For Tourists, Conduit Dance, Portland

2011 Ten Tiny Dances with composer Christi Denton:

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival, Washington High School, Portland

Blue Hour, Portland

2011 Memory and Fantasy are Neighbors

Part 1, Distilled Benefit, Performance Works Northwest, Portland

Part 2, Month of (5) Sundays, Performance Works Northwest, Portland

2010 Please and Thank You, with Robert Tyree and Bonnie Green, Half/Dozen Gallery, Portland  

2010 Heads with Future Death Toll, Foreman Festival, Portland

2010 On the Course, Holocene, Portland

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

2015 People’s Treasury of East Portland, Funded by Jade and Midway Placemaking Grant, engagement work around

displacement in the Jade and Midway Districts, project included:  

Social Media Branding for Small Business Owners – workshop with Kerri Thorpe  

Placemaking and Murals – workshop with Robin Corbo  

People’s Treasury – Community Museum at Jade/APANO Multicultural Space  

2015 Environmental Impact Statement, Funded by PICA/Andy Warhol Foundation’s Precipice Fund, engagement work

around environmental issues on Mount Hood, project included:  

Presentation, video installation and performance, Surplus Space

Presentation and performance at Peripheral to What or Divestment from the Center, A Symposium,

Central Projects Space

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS

2022 Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, Buffett Institute, Northwestern University

2022 Conference Travel Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern University

2021 Robert S. and Gertrude B. Breem Memorial Award for Performance Practice, Department of Performance

Studies, Northwestern University 

2020 Dwight Conquergood Award for Excellence in Pedagogy, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern

University 

2020 Research Funding Grant, School of Communication, Northwestern University

2020 Fieldwork Research Grant, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University 

2018 Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, Buffett Institute, Northwestern University 

2018 Departmental Travel Award, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University 

2009 Sarah Huntsman Sturgess Memorial Prize for Outstanding Artistic Accomplishment in Theater, Dance and

Performance Studies, UC Berkeley 

PUBLICATIONS

2022 “Choreographing Refusal: Affect and the Transnational in Bouchra Ouizguen’s Corbeaux,” Women and

Performance (Under review)

2022 “Isabel Cabanillas’ Open Eye: Feminist Performances of Vigilance in Ciudad Juárez,” Text and Performance

Quarterly (Under review)

2022 Book Review of Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea by Adrienne J.

Cohen. Dance Research Journal, Vol. 55, No. 1, Forthcoming April 2023

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Papers Presented

2022 “Traversals: Choreographies Against Feminicide in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez,” Dance Studies Association,

Simon Fraser University 

2021 “Still Moves: Regina José Galindo’s Presencia and Choreographing

Decoloniality,” Dance Studies Association, Rutgers University

2019 “The Ancestral Dance: Blurring the Historic in Poor People’s TV Room,” Dance Studies Association,

Northwestern University

2018 “Survival Steps: Choreographies of Resonance in Corbeaux,” Dance Studies Association, University of Malta

Moderation

2018 Performance Panel, In Motion Graduate Student Conference, Northwestern University