Practices
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Gathering
Gathering practices are about crafting and facilitation of human-centered spaces in which we ask what is alive for each of us and what needs to be named in this place at this moment with these people. Gathering practices have taken the form of workshops, facilitated circles, ticketed events, teaching, organizing and social practice projects.
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Transmission
Transmission practices are about reflecting, synthesizing, communicating and creating meaning out of the interstitial spaces between projects, somatic experiences and ideas. Transmission practices take the form of writing, speaking, presenting or teaching.
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Body
Body practices are about sourcing and processing experience and knowledge through the body — the common thread of connection that runs through all projects and practices. Body practices include both movement and stillness, and might experience the body within an external landscape, the body itself as a landscape, or a deep awareness of internal landscapes
Gathering
“The way we gather matters…the conscious bringing together of people for a reason — shapes the way we think, feel and make sense of our world” - Priya Parker
My practice of gathering and facilitation lives in the construction of every performance project, the way we begin and end each workshop, the embodied architecture of every hosted event, and the awareness of the commonalities and the unbridgeable gaps inherent in every facilitated group. My practice of gathering is not underwritten by any single training program, but rather through more than twenty years of professional experience as a performance maker; my work as a co-facilitator of gatherings in multi-year projects with diverse coalitions across lines of difference such as Southern Futures at Carolina Performing Arts, The Parkinson’s Performance Project, and Barn Church; it is in my teaching experience at festivals, studios and in higher education around the world, and my experience in navigating power dynamics both within institutional structures as well as beyond them, in theaters, universities and in the decades-long experiment in radical international collectivity: Sweet and Tender Collaborations. My facilitation of gatherings is informed by both my experience as well as through my ongoing study of modalities that require a commitment to Presence, notably: Aikido, Non-Violent Communication, Inner-Relationship Focusing and Generative Somatics. I consider each gathering to be an embodied, emergent a creative process that asks: what is alive between us right now?
Transmission
The root of my transmission practice is essentially a process of reflection upon that which is experienced and created somatically. As such an emergent process is experienced first and foremost through my body, the act of writing and presenting is often a later phase, wherein I aim to craft meaning that can be experienced in more direct spoken or written language. Sometimes this is a solitary process, as in earlier writings or presentations I have created for publications such as Movement Research’s Performance Journal or INDYWEEK. More recently, it has been a collaborative process. These collaborative transmission practices have appeared together with Murielle Elizéon at international humanitarian conferences such as Switchpoint, or in academic settings such as at Duke University, The University of North Carolina, or at the 2024 Nordic Geographer’s Meeting in Copenhagen with Drs. Cortland Gilliam and Elizabeth Olson. Together with Dr. Olson and Dr. Gilliam, our ongoing collaborative reflection and writing practice has seen publication in books such was Critical University Studies and Performance (Vanderbilt Press, 2025).
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