It´s been a long and winding road...
Selection of original and/or collaborative performances:
1973 'What Keeps a Man Alive?' - - Solo, music: Kurt Weill
1974 'Transformation' - music: Chick Correa - Guest performer with Portland Dance Theater
1974 'Y Volver, Volver' - Group dance/theater co-created with sculptor Thomas Melvin
1975 'The Rise and Sway of Parties' - Group piece with Thomas Melvin and Lisa Nelson
1976 'Fog' - Group piece, music: Jeff Beck
1977 'To the Lighthouse' - sound: Virginia Woolf text, with Stephen Petronio, Hampshire College
1978 'Crow's Feet' - with Lisa Nelson. First dance ever performed carrying live monitors. NYC.
1978 Movement Research collective - La Mama Theater, NYC. and MOMA, NYC
1979 'How Long Will it Take You to Pack?' - Danspace/St.Mark's, NYC . Group piece with Stephen Petronio, Tony Carruthers, Cynthia Hedstrom, Valda Setterfield, a.o.
1980 'Conjugations in the Surface Tense' - dance w/video monitors, with Lisa Nelson, P.S. 122 NYC.
1981 'Crystal Set' - soundtrack: Michael Bloomfield guitar, interview. American Center, Paris.
1981 'The Spirit Feel' - Group piece, Theatreschool, Amsterdam
1981 Tour of Europe w/Freelance: Steve Paxton, Daniel Lepkoff, Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa Nelson
1983 'How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?' - music: Al Green. Solo, No Nothing Cinema, SF
1984 'Lilies of Denial' - Producer: with Peggy Burgess, Stuart Cudlitz, Billy O'Haire: "Nightschool", a surreal cabaret w/music, dance, film, SF, various locations
1986 'Broken Column' - group piece, Amsterdam
1986 'Inanna' - choreographed and produced, dance opera, Theaterschool, Amsterdam
1987 'Every Grain of Sand' - music: Bob Dylan, solo, Theaterschool, Amsterdam
1988 'Visions from the Canal' - Outdoor piece: audience on barge, performers throughout Amsterdam
1989 'Tempography' - w/ Stuart Cudlitz, Bill O'Haire, Frau Hölle Theater, Amsterdam
1990 'The House of Corn' - Produced community performance on farmland, Vermont
1991-1997 One-Woman Shows in Amsterdam, Germany, Ireland
1996 'Me and Big Mama' - One-woman show in Cork, Ireland
1999 'Reorientations' - live poetry and accordion with film by Mike Rudnick, SF Exploratorium
1999 - 2001 'Poetry Cafe' - Created/produced cable show of poets, musicians, artists, Santa Rosa, Calif.
2001 - Storytelling w/ audience, Song, Dance, with Jerry Long, piano, Bill O'Haire, guitar, Sebastopol, CA
2003 - 06 'Blue Arms Waving' , music: Symph. No. 2, Gorecki, ancient Greek Ritual music.
'The Angel in Alaska with Rilke' - music: John Adams. Benefits, solo performances, and with group,
2007 - 2015 Produced IDEA, and monthly events at Blue Guitar Performance Space, Easthampton, MA
2019 'Dreaming Together' - Wave, Casa de la Cultura, Almuñécar, Carlos Martin ,Ian Arthur, Virginia M
2019 Performance with Christina Klissouni and musicians, Present Body Studio, Athens
2020 'Wave Trio' Summer Music Festival, with Ian Arthur, piano, Sole Aguado, drums, Almuñécar
Other Projects
1970 Co-founder, Dance Theater Davis, youth dance company.
1972 NYC - studied with Erik Hawkins & Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC
1977 BA in Dance, Bennington College
1978 Co-founder of Movement Research, NYC
1986-88 Faculty, School for New Dance Development, Theaterschool, Amsterdam
1988 Founded I.D.E.A. Int´l Dance Exchange of Amsterdam, an open forum for sharing performance works followed by audience written responses, published in IDEA Log
1999-2001 Producer/Host, "Poetry Cafe" series on Community Arts Channel, Santa Rosa, CA.
2002-2015 DIrector, Blue Guitar Dance and Performance Studio, Northampton, MA
2015 - 2023 In Spain: singing with jazz trio, dancing in collaboration with poets, writing musical.