No Stable Climax (2024)

University of Minnesota

Incorporating comedy, dance, storytelling and poetry, devised theater, live sound, science, and denim, “No Stable Climax” is a quartet for three performers and a ghost. It’s the end of an era, it’s the end of an end of an era. Trouble! Trouble!

Created in collaboration with Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies and Amital Shaver as part of Make:Magnify, a multi-disciplinary arts festival hosted by students in the University of Minnesota Dance Production class.

ANOMALOUS_U (2021)

Online via Red Eye Theater

“Every moment in your life has led to this moment. Embrace the anomalous and relish in the infinite depths of you with ANOMALOUS_U.”

Commissioned by Red Eye Theater as part of their New Works 4 Weeks Festival 2021, ANOMALOUS_U is a participatory performance experience exploring self-help and self-understanding through several perception-of-perception guided meditation modules. For the festival iteration, participants received texts that included links and instructions which guided them through the “performance” over the course of 10 days, which unfolded through phone calls, websites, and audio experiences.

Created in partnership with Patrick Marschke

velvet swing (2019)

Bryant Lake Bowl via Umbrella Collective

VELVET SWING tells the true story of Evelyn Nesbit, the original 19th Century supermodel and leading lady of the “Crime of The Century!" Imagine: your favorite true crime podcast meets a wild vaudevillian circus with a pinch of postmodern narratives. Expect daring feats of self discovery, compelling choices in complex circumstances, delightful musical accompaniment, multiple narratives, and one very large snake named Baby.

Directed and story designed by Alana Horton & Megan Clark

fitter perception (2018)

Red Eye Theater

“If our perceptual systems evolved by natural selection, then the probability that we see reality as it actually is, in any way, is zero. Precisely zero.”

- Cognitive Scientist Donald Hoffman

Reality isn’t shaped like a story - but we can’t help but perceive it as one. This constant dissonance is the question at the root of this project, which explores the contradictions embedded in the liminal space between our minds, bodies, and machines. This is a piece about storylessness, a journey without a destination, a practice of abstraction, a metaphor of self. In the end, we're all striving for a fitter perception.

fitter perception was originally created as part of Red Eye Theater’s Works in Progress program in the Spring of 2018.