Now and the Future Converges …

I must’ve decided a long time ago that it would be best if I didn’t set my company’s repertory on students.  I am committed to collaborative process and it always seemed far more beneficial, educationally and artistically, for  me to create new work with and for student artists.  In that context, I could help students embody their own voices and thematic concerns while driving them to push past their perceived boundaries.  I could also play to their strengths, knowledge base and skill sets.  My experience directing Dialogue Cycles, an interdisciplinary student ensemble at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (GHAA) from 2006-2011, provided an important laboratory… read more