Hear the Glow of Electric Lights is a video and photo-based series that investigates the choreographed performances and culture of 1960s American music groups featuring teenage girls and young women, with the intention of deconstructing the genre’s historical associations with …

I am on a mission to help young people find a sense of pride and empowerment in their self-image. This spring, I am producing a performance and a collaborative songwriting workshop for Chicago Public School students that gives voice to …

“Beyond the Stage” is a pilot program aimed to introduce young people of color to the magic and possibilities of stagecraft: the technical and design elements behind theater productions. As a director and actor with more than 45 years working …

Color(ed) Theories is a new publication that will compile photographs, anecdotes, and essays archiving my 2013-2015 site-specific painted house installations called Color(ed) Theory. The publication will artfully present the extensive documentation created throughout the project, along with essays that …

With this campaign, my goal is to complete a project that has been difficult to turn back to, but that quite literally helped me find my voice as an artist. The Streets Are Ours: Two Lives Cross in Karachi is …

Night of the Living Moms is a garland of narratives told through poetry, dance, and performance about what it’s like to be a mother and an artist/academic/community activist. Not often do we hear about adoptive mothers, queer moms, foster moms, …

With your support, I am excited to record my début album, entitled My Charming Murderer. As the founding pianist of the ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, now celebrating its 20^th season, I have made over a dozen commercial recordings, including …

My project is to undertake an artistic exchange between my dance company, Lucky Plush Productions, and the Cuban-based group, Danza Teatro Retazos. The dissolving of barriers between our two countries provides an unparalleled opportunity for us to visit Cuba for …

With my new work Verge, I want to bring people back to ballet, and vice versa. Challenging traditional notions of gender, body type, and identity often found in classical ballet, my aim with Verge is to make this art …

The Gentle Shepherd is the first Scottish “folk opera” ever written, published in 1725 by the poet Allan Ramsay. I first happened upon this work by accident while sifting through a bunch of Scottish folk music. As a baroque violinist …