Performance Chronology
a partial listing of performance works in reverse chronological order
| Name | Description | Date | Location |
| Rainforest | Dance-in-nature film, developing the work of Accidental Tourists and the Dancing Wilderness Project, to be set around Kitimat, BC, | Filming 2014 | Great Bear Rainforest, BC, Canada |
| Tocame! | A mix of interactive performance and theater in the round exploring modes of touch. ‘developing the themes and performance structure of Streams (2009) | 2014 | Berkeley, California |
| Accidental Tourists | Dance-in-nature film, exploring the potential psychological shifts of time in wilderness |
Filmed 2012 Premier 2013 |
Filmed at Mt Baker (WA), Oregon Dunes (OR), and Prairie Creek, Moonstone Beach, Yuba River (CA)Premiering Berkeley, CA |
| Body of Knowledge | A deconstruction of how we process information, intellectually vs physically in contexts ranging from the private to the political: a mix of installation performance and interactive event. Karl’s MFA thesis project | 2011 | Davis and Berkeley, CA |
| Who Are You? | a stage performance exploring a kind of deconstructed metaphor of a non-verbal dinner party What does it mean to have an articulate conversation via and about touch? |
2010 | Davis, CA |
| Corpo Ilicito | Performance installation directed by Guillermo Gomez Pena exploring boundary and transgression | 2009 | Davis, CA |
| Streams | A mix of interactive performance and theater in the round exploring modes of touch | 2009 | Khakiv, Ukraine |
| Proximity | A piece in which the audience wanders through a physically broken up space and watches as performers explore distance, proximity, and touch – intellectually, immediately, animalistically, verbally, non-verbally. An hour in, the performer/audience roles blur and dissolve. | 2007 | San Francisco and Santa Cruz, CA |
| Close Quarters | Audience wanders through a tea house as performers explore distance, proximity, touch, and intimacy | 2007 | Charlottesville, VA |
| Shaken | Duet with Jennifer McLeish Lewis exploring somatic psych accessing of issues around image, sexuality, intimacy, and power | 2006 | Berlin, Germany |
| United Kingdom | Directed by Felix Ruckert…a temporary society and performance ritual exploring power and sexuality | 2006 | Berlin, Germany |
| Axolotl | The audience is blindfolded for 2 hours and invited to interact with each other and a group of performers exploring the nature of meaningful experience | 2004-2011 | over 70 performances in Seattle, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Oakland, Berkeley, Vancouver, Port Townsend, Portland, Eugene, Arcata, Santa Barbara, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Helsinki, Black Rock Dessert, etc |
| Ashes | A post-dramatic proscenium piece exploring how emotion lives in the body | 2004 | Seattle, WA |
| Onion Oak Improvisations | Open improvisation | 2000 – 2003 | Rural island communities in Washington and BC |
| Dancing Wilderness Project: Ocean Studies | Exploration of wilderness experience on choice making in performance | 1999, 2004 | 1999 San Francisco2004 Seattle |
| Ulysses | Evening length solo improvisation working off of the myth of Ulysses and Joyce’s Ulysses | 1996-1999 | New York, San Francisco, Vienna, Melbourne, Wellington |
| Losers | A duet with Rosy Simas exploring the effects of alcohol on physical coordination in a ballistic contact duet | 1997 | Santa Cruz, CAMinneapolis, MN |
| Goat Boy | 15 minute solo improv of dance and theater exploring off-balance, disorientation, and having a goat bell around the neck | 1997 | Santa Cruz, CA |
| Fire | A 30 minute piece exploring collaborative physical interactions based in release technique and conflicting interactions ranging from pushing games to sparring | 1996 | New York |
| Fight | A duet with Brenton Cheng trading back and forth between collaborative physical interactions from contact improv and full-contact sparring | 1993 | Los Gatos, CA |
| Place | A participatory group piece exploring relationship to place in text and movement | 1993-1995 | San Francisco, New York |
| Dice | 15 minute piece involving 15 one-minute physical scores chosen randomly by an audience member’s roll of the die | 1993 | San Francisco |
| Berkeley Improvisations | Structured improvisations with Berkeley Improvisational Dance Group | 1989-1992 | Berkeley |
| In the Living Room | Performance in the round where the audience and performers trade places in a slow structured manner | 1989 | Berkeley |
| Cards | Interactive performance where audience members are given physical instructions which interact with each other to create the piece | 1988 | Berkeley |