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biography\vision:

I am an interdisciplinary performance artist, playwright and poet who teaches math and theatre arts. I value intuition and logic, since both are necessary for us to live full lives.

As a performer I am currently exploring, with choreographer Cindy Littlefield, word dance in which we use vocalization to express movement and dance to express sound. We collaborate with video artist/potter Rich Sim, composer/keyboardist Laura Hemenway, and several other artists.

I founded Cedar Street Theatre with installation artist Carinda Swann in order to provide a small theatre for the Antelope Valley area in Southern California. My performance events have taken place at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center and at the EZTV Video Gallery in Los Angeles. Colors of the Heart is a book of my poems and scenes, with computer art by Rich Sim, which had a performance and installation at that gallery.

In the Theatre Arts Department at Antelope Valley College I created the Original One Act Play Festival with the department head at that time, Rick Roemer. The Festival offers theatre students and audiences the unique opportunity to experience the shared creative experience that is the heart of theatre production.

In the Math Department at Antelope Valley College I developed a two semester format with lecture and computer lab sessions for pre-collegiate courses. Many students need time to internalize the concepts in these courses, and to work through their anxieties about math. I believe that humans have an innate math sense that will grow if they learn to trust it.

As the Math Team Leader for the Antelope Valley College Title V/Hispanic Serving Institution Grant, I initiate and coordinate changes in the Math Department program intended to improve the retention and success of students.

Most people perceive huge gaps among the arts, and between art and science. My journey through the universe seeks those places where it is possible to heal these splits. My goal is to communicate emotions and ideas with a minimum of strokes: of symbols, bodies, or words.