List of Work

• May 2011, UCR Is Dancing Untitled Film Project (In Production), digital video. Position: producer/director/cinematographer/choreographer. A film project documenting the choreographic process for the UCR Is Dancing concert in conjunction with a short dance film that examines the way in which stage choreography can be translated to screen.

• April 2011, Julie Mayo MFA – “Softspace / as if it were night”. Position: photographer. Conceived and performed as two conjoined pieces separated by a man with a leaf blower. I see these works in dialogue with one another, obliquely, in the way that images and sensations of different actions, peope, and places commune in dreams. And yet this is not a dream. Sta..nd..ing……b….y.

• April 2011, Peter Witrak MFA – “Popular Song”. Position: videographer. A dance performance involving a fetishized folk icon, androgynous youth, severe choreographic utopias, a mysterious commodity, and a razor-sharp sound score edited by Grand Theft Disco. A visual and choreographic tone poem, POPULAR SONG provides a glimpse into a dancing dystopia, in which young dancers are screened for innovative moves.

• April 2011, V∆LTA: Cinema * Performance * Party. Position: choreographer, dance performance. “Not Your Goldilocks” choreography shown as part of a festival that celebrates the arts at the Culver Center in Downtown Riverside.

• March 2011, UCR is Dancing: “Not Your Goldilocks”, dance performance. Position: choreographer. A performance piece, co-choreographed with Rachel Holdt, that works with a large ensemble of dancers from various levels of training to challenge the audiences perception of normal and abnormal movement.

• March 2011, Culver Center Fundraiser for the Arts, dance performance. Postion: choreographer.  A performance of “Not Your Goldilocks” to demonstrate the necessity to continue funding smaller arts programs at UCR during threats of budget cutbacks.
  

• January 2011, Transitory – hanuMAN, digital video, 35 minutes – Documentation of experimental choreography performance at the Culver Center for the Arts.

• August 2010, Bankruptcy Explained – In Plain English, digital video. 3 minutes. Position: director/animator/voice over. A short animated commercial which describes the benefits of filing bankruptcy with the McFarlin and Geurts law Firm.

• March 2010, Brygid, digital video, 7 minutes. Position: producer/director/cinematographer. A short film which explores the way in which a young woman uses dance as a means of escaping reality and exploring her alter ego. Created for a dance/film course final project and premiered at Rice Dance Film Festival.

• February 2010, Working Girl, digital video, 11 minutes. Position: director/cinematographer/editor. A short mockumentary that explores the “1.5 generation” of Vietnamese immigrants and their inability to successfully integrate with American culture.

• January 2010, Gear Up Promotional Video – Foundation for CSUSB, digital video, 2 minutes. Position: director/cinematographer/editor. A promotional video which helps illustrate to high school students how some of their peers are preparing for college.

• July 2009, El Viaje, digital video, 5 minutes. Position: director. A music video for a group of local musicians that incorporates Latin dancing, singing and festivities.

• April 2009, IVC Fall Dance Concert – “Synesthesia”, concert performance, Position: choreographer/performer. Choreographic work that examines the movement of a system of bodies through spatial relationships.

• September 2008, Life Tree, 4 minutes. Position: animator/digital compositor/editor. Stop animation project that explores the concept of loss, death and rebirth and the process of 3D compositing and digital cinematography.

• July 2008, Architexture Dance Company Presents: Contemporary Dance on Mission Ground. Position: performer. Used the historical Mission grounds and choreography to help promote the exploration of hidden areas and history.

• April 2008, Saddleback Dance Collective: “In Infinitum”, concert performance, Position: choreographer/performer. A three part, modern pas de deux which illustrates the dissolving of a relationship over time and the detrimental effects that it has on those involved.

• October 2007, Architexture Dance Company Presents: Mightier than the Sword, concert performance, Position: performer. A site specific dance concert that used a library as an environment to translate banned pieces of literature into choreography.

• October 2007, Fahrenheit 451, digital video, 6 minutes. Position: director/cinematographer/editor. A short film for banned books week that visually re-imagines the concept of censorship from the novel Fahrenheit 451.

• April 2007, Saddleback Dance Collective: “Implicit Differentiation”, concert performance, Position: choreographer/performer. A piece of choreography that examines a prejudice towards “others” as a group isolates and violently reintegrates a fallen member.

• November 2006, Saddleback Presents: Winterdance, concert performance, Position: performer.

• November 2006, Architexture Dance Company Presents: A Sonnet for the Sea, concert performance, Position: performer. A site specific performance on the Brig Pilgrim tall ship.

• June 2006, Red Star Traders Product Photography, digital photography. Product photography.

• November 2005, Saddleback Presents: Winterdance, concert performance, Position: performer.

• April 2005, Saddleback Dance Collective: “Music Box”, concert performance, Position: choreographer /performer. A solo performance that incorporated mechanical aesthetics in movement and explored the dynamic transformation into an organic aesthetic of movement.

• November 2003, Scorpius Dance Theater Presents: Rock Show, concert performance. Position: performer. A dance concert which used classic rock as means of exploring the historical issues that were prominent during the 60’s and 70’s.

• August 2002, Scorpius Dance Theater Presents: Water Dreams, concert performance. Position: performer. A dance concert which conveys the unique relationship between bodies and water.