PORTFOLIO: MUSIC FOR DANCE

I integrate a range of creative and technical skills in my work. Years of experience as a dance class musician, composer, sound designer, and audio engineer make me a dynamic and effective dance collaborator.

Improvised Music for Dance Class

Samples of improvisation for dance classes

  • Improvised over a thousand dance classes using percussion, keyboards, electronic instruments

  • Modern, West African, improvisation, Afro-Caribbean, jazz

  • Mentored musicians new to dance collaboration

Original Music and Sound Design for Dances

Poc Chuc choreographed by Alfonso Cervera

Poc Chuc Sample Compilation

  • A conversation between ballet folklorico and modern dance

  • Performed live, spatial sound score through multiple spaces

  • Drums, electronics, and fixed media playback

  • Designed sound systems for spatialized sound in the theater and two gallergy spaces

Dysphoric Interchange choreographed by Josie Bettman

Dysphoric Interchange Sample Compilation

  • Composed an electronic music score

  • Designed a unique “four corners” sound system to cover performance space and audience areas

  • Explored push and pull between opposite poles of a binary structure and proposed methods of hacking this structure, redirecting technologies of control towards subversive ends

¿Quién sigue? choreographed by Rebeca Hernandez

¿Quién sigue? Sample Compilation

  • Designed sound score including portions created by Crystal Sepúlveda, and text by Yosimar Reyes

  • Composed original music

  • Designed and implemented sound system

You Are Somewhere Eye Depart choreographed by Patricia Huerta

You Are Somewhere Eye Depart Sample Compilation

  • Composed original music and designed sound score

  • Designed sound systems for five unique outdoor spaces

piece.piece. choreographed by Johanna Meyer

piece.piece Sample Compilation

  • Designed sound, performed, composed music in collaboration with Andy Miller

  • Presented in New York (Gibney Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center), and Illinois (Krannert Center for the Performing Arts)

To The Land choreographed by Kathleen Kelley

To The Land Sample Compilation

  • A structured musical improvistation focused on repeated minimal motifs

  • The dance evoked “space-age cinematic minimalist” atmosphere haunted by “nostalgic romanticism”

  • Embracing inefficient processes; developing music borrowing methods of developing and transmitting choreography

Resonance Found by Jeff Zahos

Resonance Found

  • Interative sound and movement installation at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Other Original Music

You can read more about my work as a dance musician.