There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. Martha Graham
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At 3 years old, my mother registered me for a dance class because “you were dancing all the time” she said.
Movement and creating stories were my lifeline.
In 1983, I left Paris to follow my dream to study at the Alvin Alley Dance School in New York. Later that same year, when I visited San Francisco and discovered a community of performing artists with which to collaborate, I made the Bay Area my home. I created theater performances with Mark Pritchard, the Reptilemoontheater, and acted in productions for the Alliance Française, to name a few. I also created dance solos and enjoyed learning theater improvisation and authentic movement.
In 1987, I started working in a residential treatment program for kids and created original plays with them. This led me to study Drama Therapy, graduating with a MA in psychology in 1999. The following year at the Drama Therapy Conference in San FranciscoI I performed an original self-revelatory solo, Family Tango. Self-revelatory theater is based on personal issues the performer wrestles with and through the creative process, opportunity for new understandings are gained. Since then I have assisted and directed many students to create their own performances. The resiliency of the human spirit does not cease to amaze me.
My passion for physical theater grew as I studied Action Theatre with Ruth Zaporah and Cassie Terman, and it is with anticipated curiosity I have been practicing since 2003.
I have created numerous solos from personal stories using physical theater improvisation; weaving narrative, movement and musicality to create dreamscapes. After Alma Colorada, won the Best of the 2011 San Francisco Fringe, I found a theater family at the EXIT theater where I curated the "DIVAS Tell All", an evening for women to show their work in progress. Also the exit produced one of my shoe, The Big Hot Mess in 2016.
The EXIT theater did not survive the covid crisis but the creative process and performing scene endures in the cherished Bay Area. If you want to know what I am up to these days, go to the "up coming events" page of this website or come down the The Alley, the piano bar in Oakland and join me singing at the open mic :)
My passion for physical theater grew as I studied Action Theatre with Ruth Zaporah and Cassie Terman, and it is with anticipated curiosity I have been practicing since 2003.
I have created numerous solos from personal stories using physical theater improvisation; weaving narrative, movement and musicality to create dreamscapes. After Alma Colorada, won the Best of the 2011 San Francisco Fringe, I found a theater family at the EXIT theater where I curated the "DIVAS Tell All", an evening for women to show their work in progress. Also the exit produced one of my shoe, The Big Hot Mess in 2016.
The EXIT theater did not survive the covid crisis but the creative process and performing scene endures in the cherished Bay Area. If you want to know what I am up to these days, go to the "up coming events" page of this website or come down the The Alley, the piano bar in Oakland and join me singing at the open mic :)
