I am pleased to announce that on Friday, February 18th I was awarded a Performing Arts Grant by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, enabling me to spend ten weeks in development of new experimental performance work culminating in a public showing at the Flynn Center.

As outlined in my project narrative, the goal of my work will be “to create work that is challenging to both me as an artist and to an audience; intellectually, emotionally and artistically.”  The emphasis will be strongly centered on the exploration of avant-garde performance art concepts which vet and question universal themes of thought, perception, belief and emotion while combining a variety of skills ranging from those for which I am currently known such as sword swallowing to others that I am not typically associated with in performance, including dance, musical performance and spoken word art.