Current Creative Activity
                PARABLE OF PORTALS (POP)
                
                    the next episode of Dark Matter Messages
                    
                        modular immersive performance experiences
                    
                
                audio-visual-movement manuscript that embrace mixed reality
                
                    flow to and through
                    
                    "traditional" venues, virtual spaces and THESE STREETS!
                
                
                
                
                moved by how Octavia E. Butler invents worlds churning
                
                    with interrelated notions of humanness in her Parable Series
                
                POP dreams Butler's work into
                
                    sonic textures, glitch scripts, 3D animated avatars, dance NFTs, improvisational offerings, transient metaverse moments
                    
                    2D/3D movement generated data visualizations and
                    
                    deliberate joy jams
                
                
                
                
                swirling beyond thresholds
                meeting at the in-between
                opening gateways
                to and through
                
                    "real" community-engaged places
                    
                    powered by the people
                    
                    like my beloved Leimert Park Village and 
                    decentralized, community-governed virtual reality platforms 
                    powered by blockchain technology
                
                
                
                
                activating
                
                    "radio imagination"
                    
                    the kind of imagination that hears
                
                proclaiming
                
                    "kinetic vision"
                    
                    the kind of in/sight realized through movement
                
                
                
                
                other thangs I BE
                
                composer/sound designer
                
                    CONTRA-TIEMPE's, Agua Furiosa, and joyUS justUS
                    David Rousseve/REALITY's, Stardust and Halfway to Dawn
                    Wideman/Davis Dance, Ruptured Silence,
                    Meena Murugesan's, We Used to See This and Karuppu
                    Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project's Beautiful Struggle
                
                
                film/video
                
                
                Funkamental MediKinetics, movement system creator
                
                
                    Associate Professor of Practice at USC's Glorya Kaufman School of Dance
                
                
                2021 National Dance Project Production Grant Awardee
                
                    2017 County of Los Angeles Performing Arts Fellow
                    
                        2014 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow
                    
                 
                
             
        
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