ARTIST CV
EDUCATION
Connecticut College
Bachelor of Arts: Art History & Dance (Dual Major); Minor: Architectural Studies
CHOREOGRAPHY
Created by Ayano Elson in collaboration with performers
2023
Shadows Later
Live dance and original music performance presented at Pageant, NYC
Good Boy
Live dance and original music performance presented by Moriah Evans at FourOneOne
Good Boy
Live dance and original music performance presented by New Dance Alliance Festival at Abrons Arts Center, NYC
Poor Image (in-progress)
Live dance and original music performance at Center for Performance Research, NYC
Solo Practice
49th Poetry Project Marathon at Danspace Project/St Marks Church, NYC
2021
A Gardener
Live dance and music performance premiered at Roulette, NYC
A Gardener (in-progress)
Chocolate Factory Good Bye Festival, Chocolate Factory, NYC
Women’s Work
Video work commissioned and presented by Issue Project Room, NYC
2020
January
Video work supported by Art Cake, NYC
2018
Double Moon
Live performance co-presented by the Chocolate Factory and Movement Research at the Chocolate Factory, NYC
Untitled
AUNTS at Superchief Gallery, NYC
Solo Practice
AUNTS at MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
Double Moon (in-progress)
Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, NYC
Sunday Service curated by Mariana Valencia at Knockdown Center, NYC
2017
Reactions
Live performance and installation at Open Salon at Center for Performance Research, NYC
2016
Clingstone
Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, NYC, New York
2015
Clingstone
Live dance and music performance at Lec/Dem at Roulette, Brooklyn, New York
Name is Yoko
Live performance and video design at AUNTS at Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, New York, Work Up 1.3 at Gibney Dance, NYC, AUNTS at the New Museum, NYC, New York
DANCER
Laurie Berg, 2022
FOMO: Diptych at the Chocolate Factory, Queens, New York (May 2022)
Kim Brandt, 2015–present
Corners at the Shed, NYC (2019)
Graveyard Shift for Pioneer Works, NYC (2019)
Levels for Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2019)
Problems at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NYC (2018)
Untitled at Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, NYC (2018)
The Volume at SculptureCenter, NYC (2017)
Untitled at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC; Untitled at the Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, NYC (2017)
Clear Night at Pioneer Works, NYC (2016)
Landscaping at AUNTS at BRIC, NYC; Landscaping at Issue Project Room at Audio Visual Arts, NYC (2015)
Juli Brandano, 2023–present
Dance As/And Land Reclamation at Library of the Performing Arts, NYC (2023)
Jesi Cook, 2017–present
forgot my keys at lmak gallery, NYC (2019)
Dog Flats at Roulette, NYC (2018)
gravel motor at Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, NYC (2017)
Milka Djordjevich, 2021–present
CORPS at New York Live Arts, NYC (July 2022)
CORPS at The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas (April 2022)
CORPS at REDCAT, Los Angeles (November 2021)
CORPS (in-progress) at New York Live Arts, NYC (June 2021)
Simone Forti, 2018–2019
Huddle at Gala 2019: Rebel Angels: Honoring Simone Forti & Okwui Okpokwasili at Danspace, NYC
Dance Constructions for “Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done” at MoMA, NYC (2018–2019)
Abigail Levine and Alvin Lucier, 2020
Issue Project Room, NYC (February 2020)
Haegue Yang, 2019–2020
Handles at MoMA, NYC
Additional performances with devynn emory, Bell + Clixby, Phoebe Berglund, Glass Ghost, Steven Reker
AWARDS AND ARTIST RESIDENCES
2022
Center for Performance Research Artist in Residence
Mertz Gilmore Late Stage Stipend Award
2021
LMCC Artist in Residence at Governors Island
2020
ArtCake Dancer in Residence
2018
Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship, New York, New York
Movement Research Exchange (MRX) Living Room, Portland, Maine
Movement Research Exchange (MRX) Seoul Dance Center, Seoul, South Korea
2015
AUNTS at Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, New York
PUBLICATIONS, TEACHING AND LECTURES
2022
Teacher at Gibney
Performance Philosophy Reading Group and the writing experiments of the late Bernadette Mayer
2021
Guest Artist teaching at Improv Club, Brooklyn, NY
Guest Artist teaching at Freeskewl, online
2020
Guest Artist teaching at Improv Club, Brooklyn, NY
Dear Dancer, edited by Leslie Cuyjet and Lydia Okrent, Critical Correspondence
2019
Guest speaker at Dance/NYC Symposium, “Consent in Today’s Dance Landscape”
2018
Guest Artist teaching at the Living Room, Portland, Maine
Guest Artist teaching at the Seoul Dance Center, Seoul, South Korea
2016
Guest Artist at Aretha Aoki, Elliott Jenetopulos, Eleanor Smith, and Tara Aisha Willis’s Movement Research Spring Festival
Guest Artist at Greer Dworman’s Movement Research Studies Project