CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
CHOREOGRAPHY: TRACING GESTURE: investigation into choreographic practices examining the relationship between movement and thinking: dance as gesture; and Articulation theory in Choreography. Choreoraphic investigations and Authentic Movement practice. PhD Dissertation topic.
CHOREOGRAPHY: SOCIAL CRITIQUE and embodied liberation, investigating social structures and constructs, such as gender, stigma, racism, sexism, violence, genocide, oppression. Decolonizing the body.
BII: THE BODY'S INTRINSIC INTELLIGENCE: EFFORTLESSNESS: dance & movement technique research studies into effortlessness and increased three-dimensionality and athleticism through experiential kinesiology: close study with the Axis Syllabus International Research meshwork, Daoist practice, somatic work/bodywork. Movement principles, notation, new pedagogical methods.
BII: DYNAMIC BODYWORK & TOUCH: two-fold: 1) manual therapy/bodywork modality with an actively moving recipient, exploring the theory that movement is needed to integrate soft tissue changes more functionally and with more lasting results. 2) Investigating touch for refining proprioception and spatial awareness and as teaching tool for movement technique.
SCENIC DESIGN: PSYCHOLOGICAL SPACE: Articulation theory in scenic design and immersive performance spaces, exploring audience - performer proximities in installation-type settings and audience mobility, encouraging agency and action.
SCENIC DESIGN: DANCING THE VIRTUAL/REAL: examining the use of and interaction with new technologies in projections and elements of surveillance. 
IMPROVISATION:SOLSTICE CYCLES: site-specific exploration into collective improvisational performance practices, performativity, and ritual, in collaboration with sound artists "Slow Ear Ensemble" and others
IMPROVISATION: FLOW & DRIFT: Examining communication and responsiveness in Contact Improvisation, working from BII technique towards discussions around following, response-driven interaction, attention, care, abandon, gender, and consent.