SELECTED PERFORMANCE, CREATION & EVENT EXPERIENCE:
Physical Intersections Digital Collaborations - Artist/Creator (2022/23).
Dance Victoria - Performance & Creation (2021-2023). Artist-In-Residence (2022/23), Artist-In-Residence (2021/22) culminating in a performance at Dance Days 'Rough Cuts' with High Tide Low Tide (2022). Dance Victoria - Studio Access Program (2021).
Impulse Theatre - Performance & Creation (2021-2023). 'Dance Incubator' Artist in Peek Fest (2022), performer in 'The Joy Machine' (2022), and performer & researcher in 'Molecular Landscapes' (2021).
Healthy Dancer Canada - Conference Guest Performer (2018 & 2022). Exhibited the solo video 'High Tide Low Tide' (2022) online and the duet 'Envelope' (2018) at the Harbourfront Centre in Tkaronto/Toronto.
Innervision by Martin Messier, Festival TransAmériques - Performer (2019).
Kalyx Collective - Performance Exhibitions (2017-2019). Worked as assistant event coordinator & gallery designer for 'Labyrinth' (2019), and performed in interdisciplinary sets with other artists in a collaborative & spontaneous improvised sets including 'Labyrinth' (2019),'Flora' (2018) & 'In Bloom' (2018),
Petrikor Danse - Dancer-In-Residence (2017-2019). Worked in the development phase for the project CUNA.
Installation Experiment by Don Ritter - Test Performer (Tiohti:áke/Montréal, 2018).
Willow - Composer, Performer, Designer (2017-2018). Collaborative project resulting in performances at Concordia's Black Box Theatre (2018), Mainline Gallery as part of Art Matters Festival (2018), Kaylix Collective's 'Cross Pollination' (2017), and Welcome Home Summer (2017).
strangerfamiliar - Dancer (2017-2018). Performer in the live performance sets of musical soloist strangerfamiliar (Ilichna Morasky) at Montreal Fringe Festival, La Vitrola, FWORD VIII Launch, and two music videos INSECURE & FLOWER.
LASER 4 Artifical Intelligence & Transdisciplinary Arts - Guest Performer (2017). Musical/Dance performance “17 Miyagi Haikus” by Sandeep Bhagwati (LePARC Cluster), performed by musicians Felix del Tredici & Joseph A. Browne, and dancers Tamar Tabori & Amber Downie-Back.
Other Performance Work (2016/2017). Outside site-specific performance project by Karine Rathle (2017) where professional dancers create work with high school students, opening performance at the annual bridal fashion show Bridal Boudour Affair (2017) alongside two other dancers, guest performer at Inertia Pop Up Gallery at Mainline Gallery (2016).
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Chrystal Dance Prize - Projects Recipient (2022/23).
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