Above: Monique Jenkinson and Judith Butler in Ordinary Practices of the Radical Body, commissioned as part of the 2017 Bridge Project, Radical Movements: Gender and Politics in Performance, curated by Hope Mohr. Photo courtesy of Loren Robertson Productions.
As a curator, I bring together artists and other changemakers to explore essential cultural questions.
Below are some of my past curatorial projects.
Read more about my approach to curating in my book, Shifting Cultural Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance.
Signals from the West:
Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Cunningham at 100
Curated as part of HMD’s The Bridge Project (2019).
Photo of Merce Cunningham by Gerda Peterich
Paramodernities
A Series of Dance Experiments Led by Artist Netta Yerushalmy
Curated as part of HMD’s The Bridge Project (2018).
Photo by Caterina Verde
Radical Movements:
Gender and Politics in Performance
Curated as part of HMD’s The Bridge Project (2017)
Photo credit (L to R): Maryam Rostami by Robbie Sweeney, boychild by Matthew Stone, and Lisa Evans by Sonjai Megette
Ten Artists Respond to Locus
A Multidisciplinary Exchange Inspired by Dance Pioneer Trisha Brown
Curated as part of HMD’s The Bridge Project (2016)
Photo of Trisha Brown by Lois Greenfield
Rewriting Dance:
an exploration of the intersection between language and choreographic thinking featuring Deborah Hay, Jeanine Durning and Alva Noe
Curated as part of HMD’s The Bridge Project (2016)
Photo of Jeanine Durning by Ian Douglas
Have We Come a Long Way, Baby?
An intergenerational celebration of female postmodern choreographers featuring Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Lucinda Childs
Curated as part of HMD’s The Bridge Project (2014).
Photo of Anna Halprin by Margo Moritz