As a Dancer

Performance

An ongoing performing practice: recent work with faculty and guest choreographers at UNC Greensboro, four years with di Mossa in Nashville (2020–2024), and appearances across Tennessee and the San Francisco Bay Area.

UNC Greensboro and surrounding area · 2024–present

InvoicesUpcoming

  • A commentary on the economics of art, invisible and unpaid labor, sustainability, and what it means to make work within systems that so often depend on artists giving more than they are compensated for; the audience watches the labor accumulate in real time alongside the choreography itself.

BIG BEATS

Foot Traffic

Try not to make ballet a vehicle for political ideas (Ambrose 1954, 4)

setting the stage

All-American

di Mossa · 2020–2024

Dancer and Collaborative Movement Generator

  • In the Waiting (Chor. Allison Hardee) and TrApPed (Chor. Debbie Belue) — Belmont University Mixed Bill XX, guest artists, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, April 2024
  • Fitting In (Chor. Lisa Valeri) and Pass the Pickle(s) (Chor. Matthew Robinson) — Belmont University Mixed Bill XIX, guest artists, Troutt Theatre, April 2023
  • TWISTED — 4th Story Theatre, March 2023: Fitting In (Chor. Lisa Valeri) and other works in collaboration with musician Austin Criner, poet Lauryn Peacock, and dancers Alex Winer and Becca Hoback
  • Carina Nebula — Satellite Dance, November 2022: Orison (re-staged solo originated in 2016, Chor. Lisa Valeri) and Pass the Pickle(s) (Chor. Matthew Robinson)
  • Hello, Again — Centennial Performing Arts Studios, May 2022: Between You and Me (a revisited duet with Allison Hardee, co-choreographed with Lisa Valeri) and Two Lost Souls from Damn Yankees (sung and danced with Allison Hardee, accompanied by Lauryn Peacock)
  • Breaking Through (Chor. Lisa Valeri) — Belmont University Mixed Bill XVIII, guest artists, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, April 2022
  • In Place (Chor. Lisa Valeri) — Kindling Arts Festival, OZ Arts Nashville, July 2021
  • Dance for music videos (Chor. Lisa Valeri) — The Runner (JB Mix), Olivia Tallon Blanchard, August 2023; Wheel of Pleasure, Love Tractor, October 2021

Stephanie Unger & Artists · 2019

Dancer

  • What is She Doing? — Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, May 2019 (Chor. Stephanie Unger, Tamsin Nutter, Jen Minore, and Courtney King): a full-evening dance-theatre work centering various experiences of womanhood and society’s judgmental gaze
  • Works in the Works — Western Sky Studios, November 2019: Lady Boxes (Chor. Stephanie Unger), a trio exploring periods, fitness trends, and hypervigilance

Epiphany Dance Partners · 2012–2017

Dancer

  • This is Not the End — Belmont University Mixed Bill XIII, guest artists, Troutt Theatre, April 2017
  • Between You and Me — DancEast presents: Bridges, guest artists, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, May 2017
  • Gaelic Blessing (Chor. Grete Gryzwana) and This is Not the End — Interfaith Council, Vanderbilt University Commodore Ballroom, March 2017
  • Orison, a solo created originally for the event — Interfaith Oneness Festival, Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt University, July 2016
  • The Governing Shoulds (Chor. Ryann Lievens, produced by FALL) — From Dawn to Dust (and Other Cognitive Realities), Marathon Village, December 2016
  • space is the place: part two (Chor. Laurel Desmarais/Maeva Movement), an interactive, partially improvised dance jam with audience interaction — Nashville Fringe Festival, Belmont University Black Box Theatre, August 2016
  • First Friday — Christ Church Cathedral Nashville, recurring 2012–2015: monthly modern dance offerings for the First Friday service series, with rotating themes set by service programming

Other appearances · 2011–2017

Guest and ensemble appearances

  • TrAPped (Chor. Debbie Belue) — Emergence, Martin Center for Nashville Ballet, May 2015
  • TrAPped and Nether Lands (Chor. Debbie Belue) — Tennessee Association of Dance Annual Conferences, 2013 and 2014
  • Guest artist, Blue Moves Modern Dance Company, 2013–2016 — Yearning to Breathe Free (Chor. Amanda Cantrell Roche) at Celebrate Nashville Festival, Americans for the Arts Annual Festival, and Global Education Center Bash; Divine Sparks (Chor. Amanda Cantrell Roche) at Sideshow Fringe Festival, Cumberland Park, the Poverty and the Arts Creative Justice Event at Room in the Inn, and Barking Legs Theater (Chattanooga, TN)
  • AIDA, featured dancer and ensemble — Circle Players (Dir. Ralph Gabriel, Chor. Mallory Gleason), Larry Keeton Theatre, August 2012
  • There is No Rose (Chor. Debbie Belue) — Christmas at Belmont, televised on PBS, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 2011

Gallery

Performance gallery