Founder
PhiladelphiaDANCE
2005 – 2024

PhiladelphiaDANCE.org was established in 2005 as a resource and hub for dance related information, advocacy and service in the greater Philadelphia region. At the core of its mission is the expansion and development of new audiences for dance through education, marketing, outreach, networking and use of current technologies. PhiladelphiaDANCE.org seeks to promote to the public the wealth of dance experiences available in the region. In addition, PhiladelphiaDANCE.org strives to bring together resources and information required by dancers, dance companies, choreographers, dance writers, dance organizations, dance practitioners, audiences, media, philanthropists and policy makers. By facilitating collaboration between these entities, it is our hope to create an even stronger dance community and presence for dance and the arts in Philadelphia.

Editor & Publisher
The Dance Journal
2006 – 2024

Published under the auspices of PhiladelphiaDANCE.org, The Dance Journal seeks to provide an outlet for writing on a range of topics that encompass the ever growing and emerging dance community in the greater Philadelphia region. The primary goal of The Dance Journal is to develop new audiences for dance, strengthen existing ones, and provide a flow of information on key topics such as education and advocacy that effect dance and the performing arts.

Since its inception in 2006, The Dance Journal has grown to reach regional, national and even international audiences with over 35,000 hits per month. We publish reviews, features, interviews, press releases and critical thinking pieces that are of interest not only to the dance community but the general public as well. Contributors to The Dance Journal include professional journalists, full time bloggers, members of the dance community, students looking to develop their journalistic craft and even non-dancers who want to try their hand at writing. As part of its core philosophy, The Dance Journal encourages the submission of original material as a way to energize audiences and create a public forum for dance in the greater Philadelphia region.

Artistic Director
Graffito Works
2014 – 2020

Graffito Works is a unique platform for dancers and performing artists to create site-specific work and to make it readily accessible to the public. Literally translated as “little scribbles” of movement, Graffito Works offers a non-traditional approach to creating dance – spontaneous, improvisational and collaborative, with a focus on the juxtaposition of bodies moving in space and their inter-relationship with sounds, objects and place.

Work is created in non-traditional spaces, challenging artists to  push the boundaries of their craft, while making their work relevant and accessible to a wider audience. The essence of Graffito Works is the exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through a given space in time.  It examines the relationship of the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.  It is an evolving system of movement  whose strength lies in the collaboration among dancers as well as with other performing artists, musicians, visual artists and communities. Graffito Works offers audiences an opportunity to experience a transient moment of improvisational dance, which is specific to the place and context in which the movement is created.