Invited Workshops and Guest Lectures
Foundations in Embodied Ancestral Inquiry
Wildbody Somatics
Guest teacher
2022-2023
"Living and Learning Otherwise: Queer Histories and Inclusive Pedagogies"
The Ohio State University Department of Art | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
March 23, 2023
Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil
King Avenue United Methodist Church
Columbus, Ohio/online
Presented by T Talks and Columbus Trans Pride, sponsored by Alternative Auto Care and TransOhio
November 20, 2022
"Feminist Astrology: Mars, Violence, and War"
The Aquarian Organization for Astrologers
Online presentation
October 20, 2022
"Radically Re-Imagining the Ballet Canon: A Conversation with Katy Pyle, Ballez Founder and Artistic Director"
Panel Facilitator
CORPS de Ballet International Conference
Richmond, Virginia/online
June 23, 2022
"Expanding Ballet's Stage to Mxn & Queer-Identified Dances: A Conversation with the Leadership & Artists of Ballet22"
Panel Facilitator
CORPS de Ballet International Conference
Richmond, Virginia/online
June 21, 2022
DESIRE + RITUAL: Artist Talk
Presented as part of CoLAB 2021: Feral Domesticity, facilitated by Dani and Sheilah ReStack
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY (online event)
February 8, 2021
Witchdancing
Participatory movement ritual practice
Presented by Livable Futures and Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center as part of the Fridays for the Future Monthly Virtual Movement Gathering Series
February 5, 2021
Sky & Stone, Magic & Medicine
Online event presented by Livable Futures and Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
March 28, 2020
Rituals for Livable Futures
Co-facilitated with Norah Zuniga Shaw
Livable Futures and Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
December 20, 2019
Tarot History and Practice
Introduction to Printmaking (Undergraduate Studio Art Course)
Instructor: Ron Abram
Denison University, Granville, OH
October 21, 2019
Pleasurable Rites: movement rituals for pleasure activism
Co-facilitated with Dr. Kelly Klein
The Art of Yoga, Columbus, OH
September 28 and October 12, 2019
"Earth and Sky: Witchcraft and Astrology as Practices of Healing"
Seekers & Healers Series, curated and hosted by Dr. Tammy Birk
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
September 8, 2019
The Spiral of Fortune (Seven of Birds): A Laboratory for Political Witchcraft
Co-facilitated with Keith Hennessy
ImPulsTanz, Vienna, Austria
July 29-August 2, 2019
The Spiral of Fortune (Seven of Birds)
Co-facilitated with Keith Hennessy
Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germany
July 14-18, 2019
Pleasurable Rites: movement rituals for pleasure activism
Co-facilitated with Dr. Kelly Klein
It Looks Like It's Open, Columbus, OH
May 13, May 20, June 3, June 10, 2019
Dancing Body Magic: Co-Creating Livable Futures
Co-facilitated with Dr. Kelly Klein
Livable Futures Now Initiative
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 8, 2019
"The Business of Art: Arts Organizations Responding to Sexual Misconduct"
Facilitator
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
March 11, 2019
"Witchcraft, Resistance, and Collective Liberation: Lecture + Workshop with Michael J. Morris"
Lecture: Witchcraft Across Times of Resistance
Workshop: Dancing Body Magic
Otterbein University
February 27, 2019
Butoh Workshop
Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
February 11, 2019
"Witchcraft Across Times of Resistance"
Occult Lecture Series, The Dark Market
400 West Rich, Columbus, Ohio
October 13, 2018
"Pedagogies of Porn and Performance"
Artist Talk and Lecture
Visual Arts Practicum
Instructor: Ron Abram
Denison University
September 14, 2018
Visiting Artist Talk and Workshop
Point Park University, Department of Dance
September 7, 2018
The Big Table at Wild Goose Creative
Facilitator
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
August 29, 2018
As part of The Big Table—an annual event sponsored by The Columbus Foundation inviting "the people of central Ohio to listen, learn, and lead by discussing what will make us a strong and connected community"—I was asked to facilitate a public discussion on the role of local arts organizations in responding to the #metoo movement and the pursuit gender equity/justice in our city.
Day of Art for All, sponsored by VSA Ohio
Panelist
Westerville Community Center, Westerville, OH
March 24, 2018
"Transgender Experiences: Not Just One Story"
Panel Moderator
Denison Libraries, Dension University
March 14, 2018
Descriptive Writing About Dance
Guest Lecture in Dance as Art Form
Instructor: Sandra Mathern-Smith
Denison University
February 1, 2018
Facilitator for film screening and discussion of Boy Meets Girl
Sponsored by Outlook for Trans Awareness Week
Denison University
November 16, 2017
Precarity and Performativity
Guest Lecture in Performing the Body: The Philosophy of Judith Butler
Instructor: Dr. Barbara Fultner
Denison University
November 8, 2017
Artist Talk
Denison Burlesque Club
Denison University
October 11, 2017
Butoh Workshop and Critical Feedback Session
Oberlin College
October 6, 2017
Butoh Workshop
Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
July 14, 2017
Ecosexuality
Body & Earth Course
Instructor: Gabriel Forestieri
Middlebury College
April 20, 2017
Butoh as Creative Process
Creative Processes Course
Instructor: Lida Winfield
Middlebury College
April 19, 2017
Queer Yoga: Theory and Practice
Yoga Lab Undergraduate Course
Instructors: Dr. Barbara Fultner and Dr. John Cort
Denison University
April 13, 2017
Butoh Workshop
DiGS (Dance Graduate Student Group)
The Ohio State University
April 12, 2017
Artist Talk
Performance Art Undergraduate Course
Instructor: Micaela Vivero
Denison University
March 27, 2017
"Thinking Choreographically About Gender and Sexuality"
Dancing Gender: Embodiment, Politics and Feminist Theory (Undergraduate Online Course)
Instructor: Natalie Zervou
University of Wisconsin Madison
Butoh Workshop
Dance Ohio5 Conference 2017
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
February 25, 2017
Moderator for Closing Talk for New Work by Joshua Penrose
934 Gallery, Columbus, OH
February 18, 2017
Facilitator for film screening and discussion of Tangerine
Sponsored by Outlook for Trans Awareness Week
Denison University
November 15, 2016
Butoh Workshop
Feverhead, Columbus, OH
August 23, 2016
Connect2Complete AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America Retreat
Ohio Student Organization, Columbus, OH
April 18, 2016
I facilitated a yoga session for AmeriCorps VISTA leaders, focusing on self-care and physical practice as a method for cultivating compassionate consciousness.
Movement Matters: Landing/Shifting
Visiting Artist/Scholar, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
April 7-9, 2016
Over the course of several days, I visited classes and gave talks on ecosexuality, gender, and sex in performance; facilitated a Butoh workshop; and developed a new solo work with Maree ReMalia, the Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer at Middlebury College.
LGBTQ Student Union
Arts and College Preparatory Academy, Columbus, OH
March 17, 2016
I was invited to speak with a group of high school students about sexuality and gender identity.
"Introducing A Thousand Plateaus: Deleuze, Guattari, and Performance Research"
Theories of the Body, Graduate Seminar, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
March 7, 2016
Dance Ohio5 Conference 2016
Denison University, Granville, OH
February 20, 2016
This annual conference brings together students and faculty from dance departments at the Five Colleges of Ohio: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University.
For this all-day conference, I was invited to teach a yoga class and to speak in a plenary session entitled "Lives in Dance," in which faculty spoke about their careers and answered questions from students about making a career in dance.
"Ecosexuality in Performance"
Denison Department of Dance Symposium, Granville, OH
January 29, 2016
In this talk, I introduced ecosexuality as a framework for considering the entanglements of human sexuality with the nonhuman world, and in turn, for analyzing the ways in which performances figure possible perspectives of such entanglements. Working from the case study of Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring, we examined this dance in relation to theories of sexuality that exceed the human and how it can offer a structure for thinking about dancing bodies, the earth, the impulse toward life, and the compulsion towards extinction.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
King Avenue United Methodist Church, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by TransOhio, Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization (BRAVO), and King Avenue United Methodist Church
November 20, 2015
"Blogging, Web-Presence, and e-Portfolios as a Dance Artist"
Freshmen Seminar, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
September 2014
Visiting Artist Butoh workshop
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Dance, Richmond, VA
November 2013
Lectured on the history of the technique and directed 80 dance majors through Butoh practice, emphasizing its potential for reshaping the significance of the body
“Reading Dancing: Frameworks for Analyzing and Writing About Dance”
Aesthetics and Criticism, Graduate Seminar, The Ohio State University, Department of Dance, Columbus, OH
September 2013
"Blogging and Web-Presence as a Dance Artist"
Freshmen Seminar, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
September 2013
Butoh Master Class Series
Belhaven College, Department of Dance, Jackson, MS
Autumn 2006
Wildbody Somatics
Guest teacher
2022-2023
"Living and Learning Otherwise: Queer Histories and Inclusive Pedagogies"
The Ohio State University Department of Art | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
March 23, 2023
Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil
King Avenue United Methodist Church
Columbus, Ohio/online
Presented by T Talks and Columbus Trans Pride, sponsored by Alternative Auto Care and TransOhio
November 20, 2022
"Feminist Astrology: Mars, Violence, and War"
The Aquarian Organization for Astrologers
Online presentation
October 20, 2022
"Radically Re-Imagining the Ballet Canon: A Conversation with Katy Pyle, Ballez Founder and Artistic Director"
Panel Facilitator
CORPS de Ballet International Conference
Richmond, Virginia/online
June 23, 2022
"Expanding Ballet's Stage to Mxn & Queer-Identified Dances: A Conversation with the Leadership & Artists of Ballet22"
Panel Facilitator
CORPS de Ballet International Conference
Richmond, Virginia/online
June 21, 2022
DESIRE + RITUAL: Artist Talk
Presented as part of CoLAB 2021: Feral Domesticity, facilitated by Dani and Sheilah ReStack
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY (online event)
February 8, 2021
Witchdancing
Participatory movement ritual practice
Presented by Livable Futures and Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center as part of the Fridays for the Future Monthly Virtual Movement Gathering Series
February 5, 2021
Sky & Stone, Magic & Medicine
Online event presented by Livable Futures and Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
March 28, 2020
Rituals for Livable Futures
Co-facilitated with Norah Zuniga Shaw
Livable Futures and Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
December 20, 2019
Tarot History and Practice
Introduction to Printmaking (Undergraduate Studio Art Course)
Instructor: Ron Abram
Denison University, Granville, OH
October 21, 2019
Pleasurable Rites: movement rituals for pleasure activism
Co-facilitated with Dr. Kelly Klein
The Art of Yoga, Columbus, OH
September 28 and October 12, 2019
"Earth and Sky: Witchcraft and Astrology as Practices of Healing"
Seekers & Healers Series, curated and hosted by Dr. Tammy Birk
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
September 8, 2019
The Spiral of Fortune (Seven of Birds): A Laboratory for Political Witchcraft
Co-facilitated with Keith Hennessy
ImPulsTanz, Vienna, Austria
July 29-August 2, 2019
The Spiral of Fortune (Seven of Birds)
Co-facilitated with Keith Hennessy
Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germany
July 14-18, 2019
Pleasurable Rites: movement rituals for pleasure activism
Co-facilitated with Dr. Kelly Klein
It Looks Like It's Open, Columbus, OH
May 13, May 20, June 3, June 10, 2019
Dancing Body Magic: Co-Creating Livable Futures
Co-facilitated with Dr. Kelly Klein
Livable Futures Now Initiative
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 8, 2019
"The Business of Art: Arts Organizations Responding to Sexual Misconduct"
Facilitator
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
March 11, 2019
"Witchcraft, Resistance, and Collective Liberation: Lecture + Workshop with Michael J. Morris"
Lecture: Witchcraft Across Times of Resistance
Workshop: Dancing Body Magic
Otterbein University
February 27, 2019
Butoh Workshop
Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
February 11, 2019
"Witchcraft Across Times of Resistance"
Occult Lecture Series, The Dark Market
400 West Rich, Columbus, Ohio
October 13, 2018
"Pedagogies of Porn and Performance"
Artist Talk and Lecture
Visual Arts Practicum
Instructor: Ron Abram
Denison University
September 14, 2018
Visiting Artist Talk and Workshop
Point Park University, Department of Dance
September 7, 2018
The Big Table at Wild Goose Creative
Facilitator
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
August 29, 2018
As part of The Big Table—an annual event sponsored by The Columbus Foundation inviting "the people of central Ohio to listen, learn, and lead by discussing what will make us a strong and connected community"—I was asked to facilitate a public discussion on the role of local arts organizations in responding to the #metoo movement and the pursuit gender equity/justice in our city.
Day of Art for All, sponsored by VSA Ohio
Panelist
Westerville Community Center, Westerville, OH
March 24, 2018
"Transgender Experiences: Not Just One Story"
Panel Moderator
Denison Libraries, Dension University
March 14, 2018
Descriptive Writing About Dance
Guest Lecture in Dance as Art Form
Instructor: Sandra Mathern-Smith
Denison University
February 1, 2018
Facilitator for film screening and discussion of Boy Meets Girl
Sponsored by Outlook for Trans Awareness Week
Denison University
November 16, 2017
Precarity and Performativity
Guest Lecture in Performing the Body: The Philosophy of Judith Butler
Instructor: Dr. Barbara Fultner
Denison University
November 8, 2017
Artist Talk
Denison Burlesque Club
Denison University
October 11, 2017
Butoh Workshop and Critical Feedback Session
Oberlin College
October 6, 2017
Butoh Workshop
Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
July 14, 2017
Ecosexuality
Body & Earth Course
Instructor: Gabriel Forestieri
Middlebury College
April 20, 2017
Butoh as Creative Process
Creative Processes Course
Instructor: Lida Winfield
Middlebury College
April 19, 2017
Queer Yoga: Theory and Practice
Yoga Lab Undergraduate Course
Instructors: Dr. Barbara Fultner and Dr. John Cort
Denison University
April 13, 2017
Butoh Workshop
DiGS (Dance Graduate Student Group)
The Ohio State University
April 12, 2017
Artist Talk
Performance Art Undergraduate Course
Instructor: Micaela Vivero
Denison University
March 27, 2017
"Thinking Choreographically About Gender and Sexuality"
Dancing Gender: Embodiment, Politics and Feminist Theory (Undergraduate Online Course)
Instructor: Natalie Zervou
University of Wisconsin Madison
Butoh Workshop
Dance Ohio5 Conference 2017
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
February 25, 2017
Moderator for Closing Talk for New Work by Joshua Penrose
934 Gallery, Columbus, OH
February 18, 2017
Facilitator for film screening and discussion of Tangerine
Sponsored by Outlook for Trans Awareness Week
Denison University
November 15, 2016
Butoh Workshop
Feverhead, Columbus, OH
August 23, 2016
Connect2Complete AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America Retreat
Ohio Student Organization, Columbus, OH
April 18, 2016
I facilitated a yoga session for AmeriCorps VISTA leaders, focusing on self-care and physical practice as a method for cultivating compassionate consciousness.
Movement Matters: Landing/Shifting
Visiting Artist/Scholar, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
April 7-9, 2016
Over the course of several days, I visited classes and gave talks on ecosexuality, gender, and sex in performance; facilitated a Butoh workshop; and developed a new solo work with Maree ReMalia, the Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer at Middlebury College.
LGBTQ Student Union
Arts and College Preparatory Academy, Columbus, OH
March 17, 2016
I was invited to speak with a group of high school students about sexuality and gender identity.
"Introducing A Thousand Plateaus: Deleuze, Guattari, and Performance Research"
Theories of the Body, Graduate Seminar, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
March 7, 2016
Dance Ohio5 Conference 2016
Denison University, Granville, OH
February 20, 2016
This annual conference brings together students and faculty from dance departments at the Five Colleges of Ohio: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University.
For this all-day conference, I was invited to teach a yoga class and to speak in a plenary session entitled "Lives in Dance," in which faculty spoke about their careers and answered questions from students about making a career in dance.
"Ecosexuality in Performance"
Denison Department of Dance Symposium, Granville, OH
January 29, 2016
In this talk, I introduced ecosexuality as a framework for considering the entanglements of human sexuality with the nonhuman world, and in turn, for analyzing the ways in which performances figure possible perspectives of such entanglements. Working from the case study of Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring, we examined this dance in relation to theories of sexuality that exceed the human and how it can offer a structure for thinking about dancing bodies, the earth, the impulse toward life, and the compulsion towards extinction.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
King Avenue United Methodist Church, Columbus, OH
Sponsored by TransOhio, Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization (BRAVO), and King Avenue United Methodist Church
November 20, 2015
"Blogging, Web-Presence, and e-Portfolios as a Dance Artist"
Freshmen Seminar, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
September 2014
Visiting Artist Butoh workshop
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Dance, Richmond, VA
November 2013
Lectured on the history of the technique and directed 80 dance majors through Butoh practice, emphasizing its potential for reshaping the significance of the body
“Reading Dancing: Frameworks for Analyzing and Writing About Dance”
Aesthetics and Criticism, Graduate Seminar, The Ohio State University, Department of Dance, Columbus, OH
September 2013
"Blogging and Web-Presence as a Dance Artist"
Freshmen Seminar, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
September 2013
Butoh Master Class Series
Belhaven College, Department of Dance, Jackson, MS
Autumn 2006