Writing
My writing, which includes academic scholarship, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, is interested in spaces and circumstances of emergent, not-yet-landed relations. Usually, but not exclusively, focused on dancing, my writing positions bodies and movement as critical sources of humane knowledge, and ultimately seeks to connect the work of dance to the work of building a more tender, more compassionate, and more joyful world.
Against Discovery| essay
Forthcoming. Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, Issue 43. Summer 2024
Butterfly, Fly | prose poem
Forthcoming. The Maine Review, Issue 9.2. November 2023
My Brother | poem
Griffle, Issue 10. January 2022
Born of a Furious Brightness | poem
Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Issue 21. Winner: Storms Creative Writing Challenge. December 2021
Here, Gone, Again | essay
The Good Life Review, Issue 4. Winner: The Honeybee Prize in Nonfiction. August 2021
Ephemeral Does Not Mean Impermanent | essay
The Briar Cliff Review, Volume 33. April 2021
Cultivating the Radical Unknown | essay
DanceMotionUSA Blog. July 2018
Gender in High Definition: Bringing Performativity and Spectatorship into Focus in The Co(te)lette Film | academic paper
- Presented at the Dance Studies Association Conference, Debut Panel, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. October 2017
- Presented by invitation at Smith College, Northampton, MA. December 2018
Klein Technique as Feminist Dance Pedagogy | academic paper
Presented at the Collaborations Conference, Smith College, Northampton, MA. April 2016
"I'll Meet You In The Field:" Wandering Towards Freedom in Bebe Miller's In a Rhythm | academic paper, in process
Topic: the form and function of choreographic “wandering” in Bebe Miller’s 2017 work In A Rhythm.
Other Frames: An Alternative Archive of the Life and Work of Nancy Stark Smith | academic paper, in process
Topic: situating Nancy Stark Smith’s photographic practice within his artistic body of work; proposing an alternative archive.
Additional Writing
- Contributing scholar for How Dancing is Built: The Making of “In A Rhythm," an E-book by Bebe Miller.
- Contributing scholar for Bebe Miller’s NEA-funded Vault, a project about archival practices in dance.
- Contributing writer with The Dancer's Turn, edited by Eva Yaa Asantewaa. Long-form artist biographies.