Collaboration
Devised, Site Specific, and Immersive Theatre

As a theatre practitioner, I enjoy collaborating with artists on pieces of impact. In 2015, I performed for Bricolage Production Company’s immersive/site-specific production of OjO in the annual Without Walls Festival (WOW) at La Jolla Playhouse—forever changing the way I see art-making.

In 2011, I had the great privilege of working on the final stages of a new work based on devised, verbatim, and written experiences of connecting across borders. We traveled to Casablanca, Morocco to perform Dani Bedau's play Broad Canvas, in the 24th Annual International Theatre Festival. It was a collaboration between San Diego State University and Ben M’Sik université faculty/graduate students.

OjO

  • La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls in collaboration with Bricolage Productions

Broad Canvas

in.love

A site-specific immersive dance theatre piece based on Shakespeare's As You Like It. The devised adaptation took place at the SDSU Love Library. Conceived by Professor Dani Bedau and Dr. D.J. Hopkins, in.love led audiences through an auditory experience as they were individually connected and prompted by iPods to hear dialogue, music, and physical directions. 

Audiences were maneuvered to various parts of the library space to "unplug" seeing scenes, dance pieces, and poetic mash-ups of "love at first sight" derived from As You Like It character work. Audiences were split into two tracks A & B, to see the performance in different orders as each piece stood alone and could be witnessed in various orders. The production featured dances in the elevator, choral work in the entrance dome, a duet on top of bookshelves, a canon of dancing the stacks, and invitations to experience acting and multimedia throughout the various archival rooms. Professor Leslie Seiters and Professor Jess Humphrey made great contributions in choreography as well as performance appearances within both tracks A & B. 

Fall 2012: I worked with fellow MA colleagues to contribute to research collection, content and storytelling to further the script development that was set by Bedau and Hopkins.

Spring 2013: I was able to participate in the production under the direction of D.J. Hopkins as the character Celia and working with Leslie Seiters in ensemble dance pieces. 

It was a beautiful and rewarding collaborative process from beginning to end. It provided a new vocabulary with which to operate from. It altered the realm of possibilities for me as an art-maker. 

The pictures I dream of finding would not do the project and its theatrical impressions justice.