Cut Here
Cinematic / CONCEPTUAL ARTICULATION
Video artwork exploring the brain as a predictive, constructive system through dynamic camera movement. Rapid panning and shifts in velocity disrupt expected sight lines, reflecting the installation’s ephemeral horizontal plane cut through the woodland, which articulates the unseen political structure threatening conservation land.
Arts & Culture / Clients and CollaboratorS
Amy Smith Andrea Clearfield ASH Contemporary Dance Asimina Chremos Bald Mermaids Barnes Foundation Belligerent Muse Theatre Company Bethany Formica Big Mess Cabaret Boris Charmatz Simon Dove Brenda Dixon Gottschild Brigitta Herrmann Cassandra Xavier Children’s Festival Christy Lee Crane Performing Arts School Dance Boom David Brick Deirdre Egan Drexel University Elisa Lane Ellen Fishman Emily Hubler Eric Schoefer (X)ponent Fidget FringeArts
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Unsettled
Cinematic / TEMPORAL PRECISION
A collaboration with Asimina Chremos, translating a solo dance performance into a definitive cinematic form that emphasizes temporal precision, performance geometry, and voice.
Group Motion Dance Co. Headlong Dance Theater Heidi Weiss Helmut Gottschild InLiquid J Dellecave Janet Pilla Marini Jeanne Ruddy Dance Jennifer Mann Jimmy Mooney Josie Smith Junk Kate Watson Wallace Karen Bamonte Dance Works Kinetic Architecture Kristen Shahverdian Laina Fischbeck Laura Peterson Lea Yeager Leah Stein Dance Co. Lenny Seidman Leslie Elkins Lisa Kraus Loren Groenendaal Lorelei Bayne Louise Gillete Maggie McBrien Manfred Fischbeck Mark Boyce Trio Martha McDonald Megan Bridge Peter Price Meghan Durham Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
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The Transformable
CINEMATIC / Choreographic CLARITY
Single-take filming of Drexel University student choreography, employing focused cinematic analysis to externalize the work’s central structural and thematic throughline.
Mokoto Hirano Monica McIntyre Mum Puppet Theatre Myra Bazell Myriam Herve-Gil New Paradise Laboratories Nichole Canuso Dance Company Niki Cousineau Olive Dance Theatre Opera Delaware P3: People Percussion Project Painted Bride Art Center Pasión y Arte Patricia Graham Paul Struck Paul Turner Performance Garage Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia Fringe Festival Quentin Davis Raphael Xavier Rebecca Davis Dance Company Rebecca Sloan Rennie Harris Pure Movement Roko Kawai Rosenbach Museum & Library Rowan University
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The We Vignettes
CINEMATIC / PERFORMANCE FLUIDITY
Performance filming from student choreography at Drexel University, using active camera work and rhythmic live editing to reveal the performance’s underlying structure and fluidity.
SCRAP Spalding Gray Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra Steve Krieckhaus Subcircle SUGARCUBE Susan Hess Dance Studio Tania Isaac Dance Projects Temple University Terri Beck Community Education Center The Savoy Company The Shadow Poets The Wilma Theater Theatre V Toshi Makihara Troy Martin Oshai University of the Arts University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Uri Caine Valentine Aprile Wide Open Arts Zakir Hussain Zen in the Basement Zen One Dance Collective Big Mess Cabaret Arden Theatre Company Katharine Livingston
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Work in Progress
CINEMATIC / Choreographic THROUGHLINE
Filming of Drexel University dance ensemble, functioning as a rigorous cinematic tool for identifying and advancing the work’s central choreographic movement approach.
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