From the stage
My professional dance career began at twelve as an apprentice with the Cincinnati Ballet Company. Within a few years, I became a soloist and one of the company’s rehearsal assistants.
Moving from ballet, I joined The American Dance Machine, a Broadway musical theatre archival company, touring the USA and Japan as dance captain. In 1980, I moved to Canada to become a rehearsal director and dancer with Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, touring Canada, the USA, Europe, South America and Africa.
I went on to work with Howard Richard & Dancers in Montreal, the Judith Marcuse Repertory Dance Company in Vancouver, the Randy Glynn Dance Project and Ballet Jörgen in Toronto, and independent choreographers across Canada.
Creating across borders
As a choreographer, I created a repertoire of critically acclaimed productions, including Aphrodite Unveiled, Raphael is whispering and Homo Office Sapiensis, which received a 2002 Dora Mavor Moore nomination for Outstanding New Choreography.
Through my international collaborations Planetarium with North Macedonia and Diary of an Exile with Trinidad and Tobago, I introduced exceptional artists in dance, music and art to Toronto while representing Toronto and Canada on the world stage.
In October 2005, I was honoured to present Planetarium at the United Nations’ Assembly Hall in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of the celebrations for the United Nations’ 60th anniversary.
A continuing exploration
Since 2013, I have been exploring ways to make alignment-based techniques more accessible to a wider range of bodies.
I have Patricia Fraser of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Sandra Long of Randolph College of the Performing Arts, and countless students to thank. Patricia and Sandra gave me the freedom to move beyond set curricula and develop new pathways of movement training. The students’ honest feedback brought more depth to the method than I could have imagined.