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With Leslie Hall, we celebrate the journey of Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen. Filmed entirely on location at of Telefantasy Studios.

Next Wednesday, March 21, please join me at the Hammer Museum in Westwood for the Debut of the new Leslie Hall video “Willow Don’t Cry,” featuring the dance stylings of yours truly as Willow. I haven’t seen the finished result yet, but judging from the previous work of creators Dungeon Majesty, it should be [...]

I’m flying to London on Wednesday to begin a PhD at the University of East London’s SMARTlab Digital Media Institute/Magic Lab. My intent, over the next few years, is to combine wearable robotics with dance performance. If anyone is interested, here is a PDF outlining my plan - I don’t know if I’ll [...]

For those who might not already know, I’m going to Burning Man this year. I’m leaving Saturday for Bakersfield to pick up my Jeep, and then two more people are meeting me there. We’re going halfway on Sunday, then the other half on Monday, and we’re returning the next Monday.
I’m rather nervous about [...]

check out this cool-ass environmental music video

Last spring, filmmaker Jay Martin and I shot some footage for a screen test of a film in development. Here’s an edit he put together - it’s a bit goofy, but fun. Enjoy!

concept:
John Cage was noted for his compositions for “prepared piano,” meaning a piano which has been modified by putting objects between or on the strings - stuff like plastic forks, nuts and bolts, or tin pie plates.
I would like to make a piece for prepared dancers, meaning that each dancer would be “modified,” typically in [...]

In 1543 Copernicus published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium showing that the earth revolved around the sun, dislodging man from his comfortable throne at the center of the universe.
Galileo was excommunicated for spreading these ideas. Near the end of his life, he was made to recant his teachings, denying their truth before church elders.
It is [...]