Events (or: Things That Will Probably Happen)
Sophocles Phaedra at Sutro Baths (date TBD)
Upcoming Performances, Exhibitions & LecturesFor no city can be safe in which justice and good sense are trampled under foot, and a clever talker criminally grasps a goad and guides the city. Sophocles Phaedra at Sutro Baths
Aeschylus’ Ixion in Chinatown (date TBD)
Upcoming Performances, Exhibitions & LecturesGods and men alike were horrified by Ixon’s murder of his father-in-law DeĂŻoneus none were willing to purify him Zeus took pity on him not only purified him but took him to heaven Ixion, in turn, committed the ultimate hybris by attempting to seduce Hera (Zeus deceived him into lying instead with a cloud in […]
Past Performances, Exhibitions & Lectures
Solo Gallery Exhibition: RĂ©union Island
Past Performances, Exhibitions & LecturesSolo exhibition of my still and motion work with Alonzo King LINES Balletat Théâtre Champ Fleuri on Isle de la RĂ©union.   There’s something almost violent about beauty when you strip away the bullshit, when you catch it mid-flight, suspended between intention and collapse. These frames don’t apologize. They don’t seduce with soft focus […]
Traveling in Place, Stanford Theater and Performance Studies
Past Performances, Exhibitions & LecturesUpcoming November 19th, 2020: “Traveling in Place”, Stanford Theater and Performance Studies. An online live dance performance project.  …what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller’s past changes according […]
IOTA at Berkeley Museum of Art, SPRING 2020
Past Performances, Exhibitions & LecturesDon’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.” Jerry Saltz
divino inferno, Bruno Aveillan
Past Performances, Exhibitions & LecturesBruno Aveillan: RODIN AND THE GATES OF HELL. written by ZoĂ© Balthus and and Bruno Aveillan screened at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. It is the joy of […]
Sophocles Oedipus at Fort Mason Chapel
Past Performances, Exhibitions & Lectures
Sophocles filtered through Anthony Burgess’s manufactured tongue, performed in a converted military chapel on the San Francisco waterfront. May 2017. A staged reading, actors clutching scripts like life rafts while pretending they’re drowning in ancient Greek despair. And you know what? There’s something almost obscene about the whole setup. Not obscene like shocking, obscene like […]
Chocolate Head d.school
Past Performances, Exhibitions & LecturesIntersection of Performance, Architecture and Design Chocolate Heads d.school Friday, March 10th 3pm/6pm Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. Rumi Anticipating the Reckoning: d.school Presentations So Friday, March 10th, 3pm and 6pm, the […]