The Equus Projects

The Equus Projects partners professional dancers with horses to create site-specific works that fuse the complex, vibrant imagery of dance as an art form with the pursuit of a kinetic language that bridges the world of human and equine. We work within the realms of performance and education. At its foundation, our work centers on the concept and practice of Physical Listening. We are investigating communication in its most primal and practical role.

I am intensely passionate about this work, not only because it is beautiful and thrilling for dancers to perform and audiences to behold, but also because it has the potential to exist as a tangible tool for studying communication. We explore communication in terms of its capacity for highly attuned "Physical Listening."  At its foundation our work models the kind of partnership in which listening outweighs power negotiation based on ego.

I am a dance educator. I teach on the faculty at The Juilliard School and in the Ailey/Fordham University BFA Program. I have taught as Guest Faculty at Princeton, NYU/Tisch, University of Washington and Mount Holyoke College, to name a few. My teaching of dancers has been tremendously informed by my work with horses. In attempting to truly dialogue with non-verbal creatures, my dancers and I are re-defining the role of the human performer and creating new choreographic forms.