Photo by the amazing Lisa Wahlander
Hi again! Here is a little bit more about me:
I started dancing on my parents’ coffee table to Ravel’s Bolero when I was about four. I officially started taking dance classes when I was nine (ask me if I remember those first jazz dance moves and how many sequins were on my first costume, I can tell you). Over the years I’ve collaborated with composers, visual artists, directors, and filmmakers. I am the movement director of NYU’s Reality Show, a musical theater production staged for performances at the The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Radio City Music Hall, and NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. You can usually find me dancing and sweating with the NYC based dance company, Monica Bill Barnes & Company. I recently was the associate choreographer, alongside choreographer Monica Bill Barnes, for the upcoming film, Little Women (dir. Greta Gerwig). I was also a featured dancer in the movie! I’ve been the assistant choreographer next to Monica for Atlantic Theater Company’s productions of FOUND: A New Musical (2014) and Dying for It (2015). In 2016, I assisted choreographer Sam Pinkleton on Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 on Broadway. I’ve taught dance and movement for musical theater at New York University, Hunter College, University of Maryland, North Carolina State University, Sonoma State University and Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio. When I lived in Los Angeles I toured as a dancer with Oni Dance (artistic dir. Maria Gillespie). I was born and raised in oh so sunny San Diego (hi Mom, Dad, and Quentin!). I hold a BA in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA. Right now I live in Hell’s Kitchen with the kind and mega-musically-talented, John Bennett, who also happens to be my husband.