Since childhood, I have worked and played best in collaboration -- with other artists, with my own body and others', with the cycles of nature -- responding to and elaborating upon magical and mysterious images as they appear between us.

 

Throughout decades as a theater-maker, movement teacher, somatic practitioner, improvising dancer, curator, and a fine arts based performance artist, I delight in the integration of bodily awareness, contemplative practice, spiritual mystery, and creative process.​  I have supported hundreds of other creative explorers -- as an "artist-whisperer" of sorts. 

 

I have served as a hospice worker, providing direct, hands-on care and practical and emotional support to terminally-ill clients and their caregivers.   

 

I have co-stewarded multiple venues and communities, including SOMA: Studio Of Movement Arts, in Ann Arbor, The Ruby Slipper Series of Performing Arts in Boston, GLACIER (Great Lakes Contact Improvisation Enthusiasts Retreat), and Light Box performing arts space, in Detroit, and have been a working artist for over thirty years.​

 

I am an intermediate level student in the Somatic ExperiencingTM somatic trauma therapy three year program. I have completed a 60 hour certificate program in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, as well as a 25 hour certificate program in Integrative Somatic Parts Work with Fran Booth, both through The Embody Lab. 

 

I hold a 2012 Masters degree in Dance and Somatic Well-being from the University of Central Lancashire; completed the 1998 Contemplative Dance year-long program as a facilitator of Authentic Movement; and am registered as a Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)

 

My body resides in Waawiyaatanong, now known as Detroit, Michigan -- on historic, ancestral, and present-day lands of the Anishinaabe peoples. .