Film

Filmmaking

Filming began for me as utility. I was seeking a flexible side hustle that could support my work as a choreographer. I began working as a videographer with Ross Karre Documentation in 2011, filming primarily contemporary music and dance events. In 2016 I took over one of his clients, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and slowly became a permanent fixture there. Filming and archiving performances for nearly a decade, and creating artist profiles for their resident artists, formed a doorway into short form storytelling. I bring my sensitivity as a performing artist and creator into the room— in how I think about space, time and visceral liveness. I was mentored throughout the years by life + art partner Colin Nusbaum, a documentary film editor and brilliant cinematographer who showed me how to see the liveness in material, how to frame and edit, how to story tell. We ultimately collaborated as editors on Everything You Have Is Yours. Through this project I participated in DCTV’s Works-in-Project Lab, The Gotham’s Documentary Filmmaker Lab and Week and Edinburgh Pitch in collaboration with producer Brighid Greene.

Dance Cinematography & Videography

My clients have included Baryshnikov Arts Center, Time Square Arts , Composers Now, The Cunningham Trust, Art Matters Foundation, Franklin Street Works, and countless independent choreographers in New York City. As a time based artist myself, I am always looking to translate the space-time intentions of the artist I am documenting through the lens. When working in observational settings I bring a collaborative ethic and consent practices into the room. During the pandemic I created several screen dance collaborations with artists at Baryshnikov Arts Center including: Kyle Marshall (STELLAR), River L. Ramirez (GhostFolk), Holland Andrews (Museum of Calm) and The Merce Cunningham Trust (In Conversation With Merce) featuring Cunningham’s 1972 Landrover performed by Chalvar Montiero and Jacquelin Harris in conversation with work by Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring. The following portfolio samples are some of the artists I have been honored to witness:

 

zavé martohardjono ay.eye.ay (2021)
believe what they say that they intend to destroy us and fall back into your mind’s eye

Jeffrey Gibson She Never Dances Alone (2020)

Documentation of Jeffrey Gibson’s multiscreen work in Times Square, as well as interviews with Gibson and his collaborators for a live event.

 

Dorothée Munyaneza Artist Profile (2017)

Resident artist Dorothée Munyaneza in conversation at BAC.

A walk in the Garden: Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi (2016)

Composers Now Creative Residents Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi discuss their collaborative work at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in the fall of 2016.

North Shore (2015)

Documentation of live performance by Carey Denniston and Ander Mikalson. Performed by Nicole Ohr and Ryan Rockmore on August 14, 2015 at Moiety in Brooklyn, NY.