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2025-2026

November 2025 – Spring 2026, What to Keep? a talk circle

Wednesdays 4–6pm at Berger Park Cultural Center

Further iteration of the Death Cleaning project

(with support from Roman Susan Art Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council)

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2024

November–December, Death Cleaning  performances, installation, and video (with voiceover

and performance contributions by Paul Escriva and Judith Harding), Roman Susan Gallery

April 27, performance of Dead Letters, a segment of the Death Cleaning project, SITE/less

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2023

Developmental phase of Death Cleaning project
(click title for video of initial work in progress, August 2023)

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2022

June 14–26, Just Passing Through installation and performances at Roman Susan gallery 

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Three postings in weblogmusic.org, a platform for online asynchronous improvisation,
curated by Jeff Morris and Elisabeth Blair

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March 5, improvisation at Hot Mess, Elastic Arts

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2021

February–May, Just Passing Through video project, including livestreams via
Links Hall and
Experimental Sound Studio 

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May, The Cheryls, a collaborative livestream performance

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2020

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March 20, my poem Mockingbird is featured in A Reading Night with Awakened

Voices & Jade Plant Project (14:49 in Vimeo feature).

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February–March, Our Mutter, collaboration with Noa/h Fields, Maya Nguyen, and

Manu Montalvo. What Remains, curated by Ieke Trinks for Defibrillator at No Nation

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2019
December 13–14, I Only Have Eyes for You (deflation of Five Stud Stud)

Not Nothing to Hide, a Conspiracy production. OuterSpace, Chicago 

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Work-in-progress performances of Energize in Chicago:

• May 5, The Field/Chicago at OuterSpace Studios
• May 24, 
Gothic Funk Party #25: Crossing the First Threshold at Empirical Brewery

• June 10, Nasty, Brutish, and Short at Links Hall

• June 24, Poonie's Cabaret at Links Hall

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August 5–11, residency at Light Box, Detroit, with performance of

Third Stone Exploded (v8 of Five Stud Stud)

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February 14–17, 7–9pm, Power Ouch! festival of performance at Links Hall, Chicago,

co-curated with Aurora Tabar

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2018

Work-in-progress performances of Five Stud Stud:

• October 21, Elevate Chicago Dance 2018 at Chicago Cultural Center

• October 11–14, Charged Spaces/Changing Bodies

        Pivot Arts at Lawrence House, Chicago

• May 25 & June 8, In/Habit: Plants and Animals

at Learning Machine and Defibrillator Raw Space, Chicago

• May 27, Research Project #17, OuterSpace Studios,

1474 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor, Chicago

• May 26, Jello at Comfort Station, Chicago

• May 24, Dogleach at Hume Gallery, Chicago (image at left by Sam Chao)

• May 22, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

 

September 2, Lyp Sinc at Defibrillator, Chicago

 

August 26, G H O S T . O R G Y @ the house next to Links Hall, Chicago
Performance with poet Noa/h Fields  in celebration of their new chapbook
WITH (Ghost City Press, 2018)

 

May 27 & June 10, noon–2pm, Butoh Body at Outerspace, Chicago

Teaching guest workshops entitled Suspend, Glitch,
Wobble, Fight Surrender,
 working with ideas from

Mal de Debarquement Syndrome and Argentine Tango

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May 7–25, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

Residency, working on Five Stud Stud, a new installation/dance project

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2017

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November 7, Escape Hatch, collaboration with Harlan Rosen at Jello. 
Elastic Arts, Chicago

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September 15-23, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago

Premiere performances of Waver [event page here], an ensemble piece
that explores partnering through butoh and tango aesthetics.

This project received generous support:

Chicago Dancemakers Forum, 2016 Lab Artist awardee; 

Fall 2016 Sponsored Artist at High Concept Labs, Chicago;

3Arts Projects

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Performances of Mal de Debarquement/Beneath, a solo:

July 27 at Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago [event page here]
April 8 for Battles:SS3 Post-Butoh Festival at No Nation, Chicago

(video by filmmaker Eryka Dellenbach)

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2016

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August–December, High Concept Labs, Chicago

Workshops to build ensemble for the Waver project

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July 24–29, East Troy, WI

Swarm artist residency​

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May 1, Chicago

Performance of Nothing Between Us (duet with Pamela Strateman),
an improvisation study for the Waver project,

at New Room VIII curated by April Noga and Eli Halpern

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March 10, Chicago

Performance of Blindfold Tango (duet with Ernest Williams)
at Thaw benefit for Links Hall 

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