Today

Today, IDC performed excerpts of "Gods, Monsters and Heroes" for our dance club and other students at Thurgood Marshall Middle School. I'm hoping that this school performance will help launch more tour dates for the show (which is what I'm working on in my "spare time"). The kids love this show, so I can't wait to share it with more middle and high school students.

I think it's pretty obvious to the few people that read this how busy I am, but I can't help advertising all of the exciting things that I am working on. Mostly on my mind lately are the four world premiere I am developing that will be performed in the spring. A group piece for Renegade Dance Architects (auditions next Friday!), a solo and a group piece for GI Alliance's spring show, and a duet for IDC's spring show. I'm in the final stages of music selection, some casting is yet to be done, and choreography is starting to form. I'm so excited because this is the first time in my adult life that I have the opportunity to choreograph pieces with very few limitations. It's a little scary, to be on my own, to be so vulnerable by exposing my identity as a choreographer.

Want a little teaser info about my pieces? I'll assume you squealed with excitement.

For Renegade: A collaboration with a group of dancers. Themes of isolation, loneliness, and finding your niche.

For the solo: Learning to accept yourself, and then inviting the world to accept you as you are.

For GIA group: "Being together without being together"

For IDC: Quirky, fun duet about breaking up.

I see such beautiful movement, so many pretty pictures shifting through my imagination. Can't wait to share!