About Me

Hi and welcome to my website! I'm excited that you want to bring dance into your life. Dance is a transformative and empowering experience that builds healthy bonding through collaboration and performance. I am happy to bring more than 30 years experience choreographing for site, stage and screen, and 20 years experience as a dance educator to your service.

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 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.