Skills

• Choreography with contact improvisation, drag and burlesque dance
• Collaboration and Direction
• Massage therapy with somatic awareness
• Manage rentals and negotiate sales
• Verbal communication
• Customer relations
• Diversity and Inclusion advisor  and advocate

Experience

On set experience

• Assistant for Joey Soloway on the documentary directed by  Sabrina – 1/2 day 2024
• Craft services for Butch Builds directed by Joey Soloway and Leah Dyjak. 4 days   2023
• Choreographer for The Goddessey written and directed by Joey Soloway.  2 days   2022

Property Manager

Oct 2013 ‐ Current
Blooming Properties LLC, Woodstock, NY

• Oversaw and advised on leasing agreement, application processes and approval criteria.
• Facilitated timely collection of rent, late fee and utility payments.
• Oversaw total operation, maintenance and administration of  1 Airbnb property, one residential home and one apartment building with 4 units.

Licensed Massage Therapist 

Nov 2009 ‐ Current
Self, Spa’s and Hotel’s, Kingston, NY

• Applied specialized techniques to ease physical and emotional tension and stress.
• Customized massage services within required policies, protocols and approved modalities to craft personalized sessions.
• Guided clients on stretching, strengthening and relaxation techniques to improve posture.
• Carefully manipulated joints and muscles to release tension and improve mobility.
• Produced and directed health care teams at live events to work smoothly together.

Professional Dancer and Choreographer

June 1991 ‐ Current
Self, Sondra Loring, Nancy Topf, Beyond the Bounds, Hudson Valley, NY

• Choreographed dance pieces to express emotions through dance with music in site specific locations for specialized dance groups and individual performers.
• Nurtured creativity and artistic development by providing warm, positive environment to promote a collaborative team.
• Taught dance and movement as pure form of expression and cultural context integrating art and nature.
• Employed additional abilities such as Contact Improvisation to enhance performances and engage the audience.
• Taught Pilates Mat classes using verbal abilities and directions to guide clients through movement exercises. 

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

April 2014 ‐ June 2021
The Machree Group, Kingston, NY

• Answered questions about contracts, sale terms and other real estate issues.
• Negotiated agreements, including presenting purchase offer when representing buyer.
• Advised clients whether homes might meet their needs and whether the properties were suitable, based on thorough inspections.
• Maintained solid network of professionals such as attorneys and inspectors to coordinate smooth closing processes.
• Used strong consultative abilities to understand customers’ property needs and financial limitations, and built detailed lists highlighting potential properties.

Education

• Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate – March 2024
• Bystander Intervention to stop Antisemitic Harassment – January 2024
• Disability and Intimacy with Intimacy Professional’s Association (IPA) – December 2023
• Mental Health First Aid for adults Certificate – December 2023
• Cintima training for Intimacy Coordinator Module two – October- Dec 2023
• Cintima training for Intimacy Coordinator Module one – June-Sept 2023
• Foundations of Consent and Intimacy, Level two with IDC – May 2022
• Intro to BDSM and Kink for IC’s with Heath Pennington through IPA – May 2023
• Foundations of Consent and Intimacy, Level one with IDC – April 2023
• Emotional Intelligence for IC’s with Rebecca Johannson through IPA – April 2023
• Intro to Intimacy for Entertainment with IDC – April 2023
• Intro to Gender and Sexuality; online class with IPA – March 2023
• Intimacy Work for Actors; online class with Amanda Blumenthal – Feb 2023
• Release your Embodied trauma in Oberlin, OH – Aug 2022
• First responder to sexual assault and abuse training by AASAS – May 2022
• Interrupting racism, emergency response to sexual harassment – May 2021
• Human in Common Consent and Social Justice  training – 2020
• Study with Nancy Stark Smith in Somatic Movement with The Underscore – 2016-2020
• Licensed Real Estate Agent – Jan 2010-2020   
• NY Certified Pilates Mat Instructor – January 2009   
• LMT  from Hudson Valley School of Massage – Jun 2008
• Bachelor of Arts: Dance as a Healing Art from SUNY Empire – May 1999
• Zen Shiastu and Thai Massage Certificates from Heartwood Institute – 1995
• Anna Halprin School of somatic movement – 1993- 1995
• Embodied Anatomy and Ideokinesis with Nancy Topf Intensive – 1992
• Postmodern Dance Studies at Movement Research in Contact Improvisation, release technique, body mind centering, authentic movement, Limon technique, yoga, contemplative dance practice and contemporary dance 
• continuing education: cranio sacral studies, Upledger Institute – 1995, 1997
• Dance undergraduate at Bard College, somatic dance         

Volunteer Experience

4 Years of serving on the Board of Director of Earthdance

Accomplishments

• Produced and choreographed site specific queer live events in Provincetown.
• Hired to choreograph on set with Joey Soloway for Finding Amtali in 2022
• Hired to be a Production assistant on set for Butch Builds in 2023
• Organized health care teams at Mountain Jam Festival; including LMT, chiropractors and a nurse for backstage and the general public.
• Organized the massage team at the O Positive Festival in Kingston and worked for O positive at the Petaluma festival, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
• Event production of Queerstock Cabaret and Dance in Woodstock and Kingston for 7 years.
• Choreograph and perform with Beyond the Bounds Cape Cod Company 
• Performed with Danceartnaturecollective Site specific work involving artists, nature and musicians at many art galleries, and venues in the Hudson Valley.
• Burlesque and Drag choreography and performing at LGBTQ events, galleries and diverse venues like WOW cafe theater.
• Performed Choreography at St Mark’s Church with Amii Le Gendre and AmiiAnneDance at locations upstate and graduate work in Minneapolis.
• Site specific Dance Performances with Sondra Loring nationally at Olana, Hudson, and the Saugerties Lighthouse, and internationally with architects in Nova Scocia.
• Site Specific Dance performance with Anna Halprin in Marin, CA
• Performed with Nancy Topf in embodied anatomy structures in NYC