DANCE
Explore a few previous works, below. Choreography is available for commission, please inquire for more information.
Choreography
it will be bliss
Premiere: December 2022 in Detroit, MI
Conceived and choreographed by Shaina & Bryan Baira, Eric Blovits, Taylor Craft, and Joey Mattar, it will be bliss is an immersive evening-length devised dance-theatre experience regarding truth and illusion.
Between a Rock…
Premiere: March 2022 in Detroit, MI
Choice. It’s the best part of being a real person. But if used incorrectly, it can also be the most dangerous. Between a Rock & a Hard Place investigates the illusion of choice, and how sometimes the idea of a decision can be more important than the outcome.
Take Your Time
Premiere: December 2021 in Detroit, MI
Carved by light, this duet (co-choreographed by Eric Blovits) expresses a relationship over time and space in a way that is non-linear and non-narrative. This duet work was selected to premiere at the Wayne State University December Dance Concert.
Eye of the Storm
Premiere: December 2021 in Detroit, MI
Set on the dancers of WSU’s Dance Company One, Eye of the Storm is an experiment in organized chaos. Performers swirl and wash the space as they encounter each other, and the trials they have gone through together.
Heisenberg
Premiere: July 2021 in Lucca, Italy
Heisenberg investigates how our environment can shape our choices and who we are. This work was created over a week-long residency in Lucca, Italy during the Dance Italia Advanced training program in 2021. During this time, mentorship from Ricerca X and Stephanie Nelson dramaturgically assisted in the creation of this site-specific choreographic venture. The piece premiered on a walking tour of the city in July.
How to Move
Premiere: March 2020 - Virtual
Guiding questions of “Who am I?” and “Who do I want to be?” offer ways of exploring the depths of what makes up a person. Through self-actualization, a greater sense of who one is will determine the theories and practices through which one ought to live their life. Moral and philosophical tools are pertinent in the ever-elusive journey to enlightenment. How to Move was made possible in part by the WSU Humanities Center Grant for Creative Responses to COVID-19. The project was also supported by the Virtual Dance Collaboratory at WSU.
Reflections
Premiere: December 2020 - Virtual
The most introspective research, that of the Self, is thought of intimately in Reflections. Through an improvised structure at the Minoru Yamasaki Reflecting Pools in Detroit, and inspired by the poem Mirrors, by Sylvia Plath, Reflections takes into consideration what to do when you don't like the person that looks back at you.
Reflections was chosen to represent Wayne State University at the virtual adjudicated concert for the American Collegiate Dance Association in 2021.
Class
Built off the foundation of all mentors and collaborators, my contemporary forms class comes in many names and focuses. It is informed by my work as a trainer, performer, mover, and human looking for connection. Classes include improvisation, conditioning, skills, body patterning, phrase-work, and partnering. My class is also largely influenced by the structure and teachings of BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY - the living pedagogy of Shaina & Bryan Baira.
Private Sessions are also available, and consist of personalized exercises and training modules designed to target an individuals artistic areas of interest and expand their movement toolbox.
About
Notable performances include works by Twyla Tharp, Pilobolus, Bosmat Nossan, Meg Paul, Shaina & Bryan Baira, Beth Graczyk & John Gutierrez, Stephanie Troyak, and more.
Full list of appearances available upon request.