University Teaching & Adult Workshops

"Creating Solo Performance" Workshop at Hurricane Gap Theater Institute, Pine Mountain, KY. Photo: Mark Kidd. 

"Creating Solo Performance" Workshop at Hurricane Gap Theater Institute, Pine Mountain, KY. Photo: Mark Kidd. 

Workshops: Performance Art

I offer a variety of workshops in performance, including: 

  • Creating Solo Performance

  • Politically-Charged Performance

  • Numbers-Bodies-Love

  • Outdoor, Public Performance

  • Ceremony and Ritual as Performance

Flyer for course, "Performance as Public Practice and Resistance," Women's and Gender Studies Department, DePaul University Chicago. 

Flyer for course, "Performance as Public Practice and Resistance," Women's and Gender Studies Department, DePaul University Chicago. 

University Teaching

I have taught Cultural Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at the university level since 2004 at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and Eastern Kentucky University. Selected courses:

  • Performance as Public Practice & Resistance

  • Intro to Women's and Gender Studies

  • Racial Formations in the US

  • Making and Unmaking Whiteness

Pragmatic Visionaries 24-hour Ceremonial Performance Workshop at Alternate ROOTS' ROOTSWeek, 2012. Photo: Rodrigo Dorfman. 

Pragmatic Visionaries 24-hour Ceremonial Performance Workshop at Alternate ROOTS' ROOTSWeek, 2012. Photo: Rodrigo Dorfman. 

Ritual and Ceremony as Artistic Practice

Rituals and ceremonies are powerful tools for activating our hearts and knitting together our communities in relationship to the Divine. I also love building and maintaining altars. Workshops I teach in this realm:

  • Portable Shrine-Making (building small altars or shrines inside of cigar boxes or match boxes—take it with you wherever you go!)

  • Pragmatic Visionaries: using art and performance to create meaningful ceremonies for social justice and self-care

  • Ancestor Altars and Altar Walks