Choreography

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“CAUSATUM” commissioned piece for Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company 2018. This piece explored cause and effect and the initiation of actions.

“THE MOORING” Piece produced for STRUT Dance, Independent Choreographic Centre – Short Cuts season. Perth, Western Australia. This was a duet that played with the give and take of weight within an interchangeable relationship. This piece was developed within 20 hours of studio time and premiered in front of a studio audience.

Solo developed for Perth Fringe Festival 2017. Blue Room Theatre season of Summer Nights. This piece was a collaboration with a writer incorporating her creative process within the choreographic process. Projections of running ink inspired a dynamic and fluid movement style.

“LUSTRUM” A week long project produced by artist Gary Clarke, (UK). 12 dance artists spent a week together collaboratively choreographing and performing five full dance pieces for a final concert at the end of the week. This week explored the idea that the collective ideas of multiple artists and a reduced time limit for creation can still produce quality art.

“Her commitment to the project meant that she became a real figure head and was able to lead and direct others. She had a beautiful way of articulating her words and was able to communicate them with honesty and sensitivity. I respected her presence in the room and would rely on her knowledge and understanding of what was happening.“ Gary Clarke

SITE SPECIFIC AND SCREENDANCE

Dance film and solo created for a work “Bodies in Motion” showcase concert at University of Lincoln (UK). This piece took the idea of a video gif, and how the idea of a loop within movement can develop and evolve to different conclusions.

“Passed On” Dance Film. Presented at the Utah Dance Film Festival 2017. Shot in Scotland. ‘On-site movement response to the names and stories labeled on park benches in the village I was living in.

LOST/FOUND – Duet created for the Elgin Ties Dance Festival, NY / Chicago in collaboration with artist KRISTEN JEPPSEN GROVES. Lost/Found is a site-specific dance work that explores interactions of identity and spaces. Through film and site-specific choreography, the work developed the desire to relate to one’s surroundings and its affect on identity. Two women experience displacement, familiarity and discovery as they struggle to emotionally connect to new geography. Groves and Spencer created a virtual duet using actual locations in northern Italy and Scotland. As a collaboration we are interested in creating work that redefines identity in unfamiliarity while drawing audiences into distance locations.

DANCING SCOTLAND was a web sharing project initiated by the response to stay involved in choreographic creation while living in a remote village in Scotland and taking care of a young child. I developed short dance films that featured a different site location of the village. These were shared on a blog platform among similar artists scattered throughout the world.

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“Prepositional Pendulum” This short dance film was created in the UK for a performance in conjunction with the Artist Interrupted Salt Lake City Conference. Artist Interrupted was a gathering of artists, still wanting to create, that were in a moment of their lives that family, injury, or parenthood were interrupting the pathway of their career.

Choreography for Secondary Schools

While teaching within the secondary school environment, creating movement and helping the students through choreographic exploration was an important part of their education. My role was to teach Dance 1, Dance 2, Dance 3, and direct the Dance Company. I created the curriculum, choreography, and assignments for each class, as well as choreographing 20 original dance works throughout my teaching.

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Undergraduate BFA Choreography

Choreography was a major part of my undergraduate university education. Each semester the dance department held a student created concert. During my undergraduate I choreographed 8 original pieces, performed in 25 student led and professional dance works, and created collaboratively with colleagues and teachers. This gave me the opportunity to create freely, and also be a dancer for other choreographers to create. My choreographic aesthetic came from my contemporary traditional training, while continuing to rediscover new movement patterns that were unconventional. I enjoyed moving large, playing with comic relief, and addressing topics that were familiar to the every day while using an accompaniment that was unheard of, and unfamiliar.

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CHOREOGRAPHIC PASSION SINCE I WAS YOUNG

While growing up, I had the opportunity to share my own original choreography from when I was 8 years old, to when I was through university. Developing ideas that can be communicated through the stage and bodies, was a pivotal shaping period for me as a young person. I felt that within a full dance program in the high school, individual choreographic development as well as mentorship from professionals were key aspect to the curriculum. I love sharing many of my own creations in performances, assemblies, and within class, but more so, I enjoyed watching the countless original creations the students made and how they developed their choreographic eye throughout the years.