Filming began for me as utility. I was seeking a flexible source of income that could support my work as a choreographer. I began working as a videographer under Ross Karre in 2011, filming with his team for primarily contemporary music and dance events. In 2016 I took over one of his clients, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and slowly became a permanent fixture there. Filming and archiving performances for nearly a decade, and creating artist profiles for their resident artists, formed a doorway into short form storytelling. I bring my sensitivity as a dancer into the room, searching for the liveness in my interviewees’ words that lights up their hearts. I owe immense learning over the years to my partner Colin Nusbaum, a documentary film editor and brilliant cinematographer who showed me the way.
Everything You Have Is Yours (2024)
Feature documentary /90 minutes
NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother in the US. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, settlers in Palestine in the 1930s, she begins a personal endeavor to confront the founding mythologies and transgressions of Zionism. Through her work, a web of artistic portraits emerges—Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers living in New York City question what is inherited and what we embody to carry forward.
World premiere on Tënk and U.S. premiere at DOC NYC. More information on future screenings through the film’s website.
Dance Cinematography & Videography
My clients have included Baryshnikov Arts Center, Time Square Arts , Composers Now, The Cunningham Trust, Art Matters Foundation, Franklin Street Works, and countless independent choreographers in New York City. As a time based artist myself, I am always looking to translate the space-time intentions of the artist I am documenting through the lens. When working in observational settings I bring a collaborative ethic and consent practices into the room. During the pandemic I created several screen dance collaborations with artists at Baryshnikov Arts Center including: Kyle Marshall (STELLAR), River L. Ramirez (GhostFolk), Holland Andrews (Museum of Calm) and The Merce Cunningham Trust (In Conversation With Merce) featuring Cunningham’s 1972 Landrover performed by Chalvar Montiero and Jacquelin Harris in conversation with work by Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring. The following portfolio samples are some of the artists I have been honored to witness:
Tere O’Connor Rivulets Excerpt (2023)
Documentation of live performance at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
zavé martohardjono ay.eye.ay (2021)
believe what they say that they intend to destroy us and fall back into your mind’s eye
Jeffrey Gibson She Never Dances Alone (2020)
Documentation of Jeffrey Gibson’s multiscreen work in Times Square, as well as interviews with Gibson and his collaborators for a live event.
Dorothée Munyaneza Artist Profile (2017)
Resident artist Dorothée Munyaneza in conversation at BAC.
A walk in the Garden: Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi (2016)
Composers Now Creative Residents Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi discuss their collaborative work at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in the fall of 2016.
North Shore (2015)
Documentation of live performance by Carey Denniston and Ander Mikalson. Performed by Nicole Ohr and Ryan Rockmore on August 14, 2015 at Moiety in Brooklyn, NY.
More work available on the Baryshnikov Arts Center Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/bacnyc where I am the resident videographer