I’ve been working as a creative producer in live performance and dance film since 2016. I collaborate with artists to develop and stage projects independently and in partnership with presenting institutions. See below some projects I’ve worked on:

currently:
producing Will Rawls’ [siccer]


select previous projects:

“nesting” (2023) by Fana Fraser - Single-channel video, color, sound
3 min, directed by Haruna Azumi - commissioned by TBA21–Academy for st_age- 

4 x fifteen: (re)member (2022) -
a live improvisation with Malcolm-x Betts, Stephanie George, Nazareth Hassan - for the New York Botanical Garden

Jerome
(2022) by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd -
a dance work for 6 dancers - more info here

soft bodies in hard places
(2019-2021) - a multidisciplinary performance platform i curated in collaboration with planetary motion, as part of my 2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship @ ISSUE Project Room, with collaborations with the Asian American Writers Workshop, Culturebot, Materials for the Arts, Center for Performance Research, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd:
The Last Moon in Mellowland
(2020-21)


a dance film (runtime ~28 minutes) produced over fall 2020
for the nov 20, 2020  first quarter moon in Aquarius
nov 20, 2020 / world premiere / ISSUE Project Room
feb 5, 2021 / screening + discussion / Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

one of the New York Times "5 Things to Do this Weekend"  (12/24/20)

Credits
choreographer, performer, sound, and visual director/designer: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
performances by: Breeanah Breeden, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Demetries Morrow, and Ariana Speight
text by: emily rose cannon, Stephanie George, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, and Wesley Pierre
dramaturgy: Stephanie George

the corpus is exquisite,
the equinox is vernal
(2020)

originally planned for as a weekend-long process residency
structured around a loose game of "exquisite corpse"
for the spring 2020 vernal equinox, the project was re-devised
to premiere in celebration of the 2020 summer solstice

june 26, 2020 / virtual performance and chat @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! (BAAD!)
mar 27-29, 2020 / process residency^ @ Center for Performance Research     (^canceled due to COVID-19)

Credits
"8:46" by Malcolm-x Betts
"An Improvisation in Two Parts" by Ogemdi Ude
Astrological Dramaturg: Stephanie George

loveconductors: ghoul|take III
(2019)

a multimedia fantastic mythologizing performance practice
adapted to ISSUE's theater
for the sept 25, 2019 fall equinox

(see full press release)

sept 25, 2019 / performance @ ISSUE Project Room

commissioned writing:
Opening space for the inexplicable  (Culturebot)

Credits
loveconductors, directed by Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson
Renée Colbert, Justin Faircloth, Maestro Flux, Ube Halaya, Shiloh Hodges, Samantha Lysaght, Light McAuliffe, Madeline Warriner, and slowdanger(anna thompson and taylor knight)


very peak summer solstice
(2019)

2 new collaborations between poets and dancemakers
for the june 21, 2019 summer solstice

(see full press release)

june 21, 2019 / performances @ ISSUE Project Room
june 18, 2019 / craft talk and discussion @ Asian American Writers Workshop

commissioned writing
Generative moments in fragmented view: a collageby Jean Lee (Culturebot)

press
Tracks Get Fresher by Eva Yaa Asantewaa (Infinite Body)
in response to Annie + Sok's December 2019 re-staging of This Mother/land Fabric at New York Live Arts

Credits
"Fana + Jasmine" by Fana Fraser and Jasmine Gibson
"This Mother/land Fabric" by Annie Heath and Sokunthary Svay
Astrological Dramaturg: Stephanie George


revolutionary new moon in aquarius
(2018-19) 

1 new collaboration between 3 dance makers
1 commissioned essay
for the feb 4, 2019 new moon in aquarius
(see full press release)

feb 2, 2019 / performance @ ISSUE Project Room
jan 17, 2019 / workshop @ Materials for the Arts

commissioned writing
Readying Above and Below by Tara Sheena  (Culturebot)

Credits
collaborative performance developed by: Ambika Raina, Katrina Reid, lily bo shapiro
Astrological Dramaturg: Stephanie George


Image Descriptions

The Last Moon in Mellowland (Jordan Demetrius Lloyd): saturated blue sky with waxing crescent moon just visible in the top left; a hand reaching up from the bottom of the frame

the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal (Benedict Nguyen): sun earth and moon overlaid on a distorted grid plane with crease lines

ghoul|take III (Renée Colbert): large moon over a rocky terrain and doorway (right) with a 2 skeletons standing behind a gate

very peak summer solstice (Nick Scavo with Benedict Nguyen): and orangey-peach sky with the sun and moon in hazy background, and a dotted sine wave overlaid

revolutionary new moon in aquarius (Nick Scavo with Benedict Nguyen): and orangey-peach sky with the sun and moon in hazy background, and a dotted sine wave overlaid