About Me

Hi and welcome to my website! I'm happy to bring more than 20 years experience as a dance educator/choreographer to your service. Dance is empowering, it nurtures body mind and spirit, through transformative collaboration and performance. Dance isn't about being pretty, its about embodiment, claiming the inherent power that has resided within you all along...

I hold a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from California Institute of the Arts, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from California State University Long Beach, and certification as a Yoga Instructor, Somatics and Movement Therapist from the Natural Healing Institute.  My choreography has been presented to great acclaim nationally and internationally, including at the celebrated Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland. I have served on the faculty of California State University Pomona, Mira Costa College, Santiago Canyon College, Santa Ana College, and Rio Hondo College. I am the Artistic Director of Practice As Research And Dance Experiments (PARADE), the vehicle for my creative research that investigates performance theory and practice at the intersection of choreography and somatics, with present work in contemporary partnering and site-specific performance. I am a member of Americans for the Arts' Action Fund, the National Dance Educators Organization, and the California Dance Educators Association. I have also served as a Panel Adjudicator for the Carlsbad Arts Commission's Community Arts Grant.