Curating & Producing

PRELUDE 2024
Senior Producer and Co-Curator of PRELUDE 2024: Between the Scenes at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center

River To River Festival 2023: Lotto Royale
Guest-curated and produced Lotto Royale for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's River To River Festival

Press: "Private Dances: Lotto Royale Offers a ‘Door to an Experience’," NY Times

Tanz im August 2022: ONCE OVER TIME
Associate Producer of the Cristina Caprioli/ccap retrospective ONCE OVER TIME at Tanz im August 2022

BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Lead producer for programs and events including Nightwalks with Teenagers (2022); Casting Director and Onsite Extras Coordinator for Sun & Sea (2021)

Press: "The Opera Swimmers of Brooklyn," The New Yorker

Tanzkongress 2019 Salons

The Tanzkongress 2019 Salons was a series of artist gatherings initiated by Meg Stuart that took place in New York, Bogotá, Madrid, Helsinki, New Delhi, and Ouagadougou. The online magazine of the Tanzkongress Salons, edited by Moriah Evans and myself and produced by the Goethe-Institut, invites readers to engage with the questions, concerns, desires, and practices shared by artists at each salon.

Tanzkongress 2019 – A Long Lasting Affair: International Salons
The online magazine of the Tanzkongress 2019 International Salons.

The Ouagadougou Salon Interviews
In advance of the Ouagadougou Salon, I interviewed artists Bienvenue Bazié, Souleymane Badolo, Seydou Boro, Fatou Cissé, Salamata Kobré, Djibril Ouattara, Salia Sanou, and Stephany Ursula Yamoah about their work and the conditions of making art in Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Ghana today.

Essays

Notes on Devotion
Reflections on devotion to dance and on performing in Sarah Michelson's Devotion series, published in the Movement Research Performance Journal.

New Relational Ethics in Arno Bertina’s “Des lions comme des danseuses”
The politics of art restitution as portrayed in Arno Bertina's novel Des lions comme des danseuses.

Just Human Beings
Competing Theories of Decolonization in the Work of Frantz Fanon and Jamaica Kincaid.

Homosexual Conduct: Gay sex, racism, and economies of exchange in Dakar
A personal history of coming face-to-face with the criminalization of gay sex in Dakar.

RUMORS: Simon Asencio interviewed by John Hoobyar
Interview with artist Simon Asencio about the choreography of rumors, published in the Movement Research Performance Journal.

Texting Under the Table: Three Works in Conversation at the 2017 Whitney Biennial
Essay on three works in dialogue at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, published on Culturebot.

Should We Build?
Reflections on two panel discussions at Prelude 2015 focused on architecture and performance, published in the Movement Research Performance Journal.