I am honored to be a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow! I’m still kind of in disbelief that I have this support for the next few years. I’ll be urging a few different projects forward, continuing to develop a sustainable model for bringing in collaborators, and deepening my dance, music, & choreography practices.
“Jerome Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellows, awarding 45 early career artists based in Minnesota and New York City. Fellows receive $60,000 over three consecutive years ($20,000 each year) in support of flexible, self-designed plans for their creative endeavors. […]
Jerome Foundation seeks to serve artists who take creative risks in exploring, expanding, imagining, or re-imagining creative practices and experiences; reclaiming or reviving traditional forms in original ways; and/or questioning, challenging, or disrupting cultural norms. This three-year Fellowship supports artists who embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and who consciously work with a sense of service and responsibility.”
I just finished up a residency with Music From the Sole for our new show, House Is Open, Going Dark. The work is set to premiere in Summer 2025 at Guild Hall in East Hampton. I’m super excited about it. In addition to dancing, I play drums in the show and have been helping with dramaturgy work.
At the end of January, we have performances of our show I Didn’t Come To Stay in Denver, CO, and Seattle, WA. Check out our calendar here.
A play that I adapted with a dream-team of collaborators Leandro Castro and Tatyana-Marie Carlo is taking new life. Our bilingual adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest / La Tempestad was originally developed for Trinity Repertory Company and Rhode Island Latino Arts’ collaboration Teatro en el Verano, and now it’s included in Trinity Rep’s season, coming up in March+April. Christie Vela is directing. You can find more info + tickets here.
We’ve also gotten some positive end-of-year mentions for our production of La Broa’ (Broad Street), including this one in The Boston Globe.
And the residency that I received at the Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor is coming up in a couple of months! I can’t wait to dig back into and extend my piece Too soon to discover planets, too late to discover islands. I’ll be working with many of the same collaborators and elements including tap dance, live music, and masks. If you’re anywhere near Staten Island, come out to our showing on April 12. ❤️