About

My work was abstract and noted for its poly-attentiveness, embracing a fast, flexible approach with more than one thing going on at a time, giving each audience member the opportunity to experience freedom of perception. I utilized chance structure as a process to allow for disjunctive ordering, each dancer impacted individually.

My influences throughout my creative work were Dan Wagoner, Viola Farber, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor.

My work as a choreographer really began when I left the Dan Wagoner and Dancers company in 1982. Creative work in the US in earlier years was as part of the SoHo and Village scene in NYC prior to joining the Wagoner company in 1975. Later, my choreography was mostly created and performed in the Pacific Northwest states of Idaho, where I was an independent artist and adjunct faculty at Boise State University and Oregon.

Immigrating to Canada in 1986 I became more involved as dancer, choreographer and teacher.

My primary influences and presenters have been: Brian Webb, Jerry Morita in Edmonton, and Dancers Studio West and Nicole Mion in Calgary.

My choreography has been presented in Vancouver by Dancing on the Edge, The Dance Centre and Harbour Dance, and by The School of Contemporary Dance in Winnipeg.

As a teacher I have worked across Canada, with Circuit-Est Centre chorégraphique de danse á Montreal, School of Toronto Dance Theatre, The School of Contemporary Dance in Winnipeg, and The Dance Centre, Harbour Dance and LMDC in Vancouver. I also conducted one-on-one teaching and training with dancers who performed in my creative work.

As an assessor with the Canada Heritage National Pre-Professional Arts Training Program: Dance, I was contracted for assessments with: Le Groupe (Ottawa) and Main Dance (Vancouver).

I was full-time faculty at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton from 1994 – 2005 when the Dance Program sadly closed.

Awards

• Province of Alberta Centennial Medallion Award for Artistry and Advocacy
• Idaho Annual Governors award for Excellence in the Arts: Choreography

Leadership

• Inaugural member of the Edmonton Arts Council representing individual artists and advocacy
• Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton (PACE) President for two years, overseeing the Mayor’s Evening for Celebration of the Arts

Membership

• Alberta Dance Assembly
• Canada Dance Assembly
• Canadian Conference for the Arts

Professional Training

• Contemporary: Dan Wagoner, Viola Farber
• Classical: Maggie Black
• Pilates: Kathy Grant

Collaborators

• Tamara Bliss costume design, edmonton, ab
• Brian Webb Dance Company presenter, edmonton, ab
• Dave Clarke composer and sound design, edmonton, ab
• Jim Cockey composer, boise, id, usa
• David Fraser lighting design, calgary, ab
• Julie Funk interpreter, calgary, ab
• k.g. Guttman interpreter, montreal, qc
• Corey Hamm pianist, vancouver, bc
• Ainsley Hillyard interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Alison Kause interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Alida Kendell interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Amy Kubanek interpreter, vancouver, bc
• Walter Kubanek interpreter, vancouver, bc
• Naomi Lefebvre Sell interpreter, london, england, uk
• Kathy Metzger-Corriveau interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Krista Minken interpreter, calgary, ab
• Gerry Morita choreographer, edmonton, ab
• G. Gordon Nicholson composer, mt. pelerin, switzerland
• Ronda Nychka, interpreter, toronto, on
• Kathy Ochoa interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Deanna Peters interpreter, vancouver, bc
• Gabriella Rehak interpreter, winnipeg, mb
• Don Ross clarinetist, edmonton, ab
• Kate Stashko interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Bobbi Todd interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Jodie Vandekerkhove interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Raena Waddell interpreter, edmonton, ab
• Ashlea Watkin interpreter, nanaimo, bc