Photo by Ella Dawn W-S; Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) [Image description: Kiera is kneeling with their left hand planted on a white windowsill overflowing with yellow physical therapy objects and their right hand suspended above the floor with right fingers open, casting a hand shadow. Ella does a handstand with red and yellow TheraBands wrapped around her right leg, which is extended to the side over Kiera’s head while her left leg is slightly bent against the wall in a mixture of sunlight and shadow.]
INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE RESEARCH/SELECTED WORKS
![Photo by Elyse Mertz; SFAREGQ [Registration Query Form]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1549906155957-NVZALYYF5HI3UQ1GH7EC/image-asset.jpeg)
Photo by Elyse Mertz; SFAREGQ [Registration Query Form] [Image description: Ella tilts to her right and extends her left leg out to the side behind two colorful silk scarves with cookies on them. Behind Ella, Melisande sits with hands on the black marley floor and bent knees, and Kiera plays accordion while standing on one leg to Melisande’s left.]
Photo by mayfield brooks; sean-tigh/seanchaí [Image description from left to right: Kiera leans one hand on a tree and bends their left knee and Simone raises both arms over her head and leans to her right; they are both standing on grass adjacent to a body of water with buildings across the water.]
November 2023
“Pink Lines and Blood Circles: Christopher Unpezverde Núñez’s Disabled, Diasporic ‘Memory Archaeology’” (American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference), shared as part of the Disability Performance Cultures Working Session
July 2023
“Transmuting Trauma and ‘Alchemiz[ing] Inherited Wounds’: iele paloumpis’s Disabled, Diasporic Choreographies of Care” (Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference), presented as part of the “Praxis of Care” panel
Bird bones/40th Annual Loon Count (Bearnstow), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Ella Dawn W-S
June 2023
Dancer for Jerron Herman at Dance Lab New York (Summer 2023 Lab Cycle)
November 2022
“‘My hand is a hand’: Disability and Relationality in Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce’s Breaking and Entering” (American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference), presented as part of the Disability/Performance: Beyond Catastrophic Embodiment Working Session
August 2022
QuickDASH Outcome Measure (The Brick), presented as part of The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds, choreographed and performed in collaboration with Alexander Enzo Hope, Simone Johnson, Yo-Yo Lin, and Julia Lucrecia Taveras
July 2022
Bird bones/”You need some impact in there” (The Croft Residency), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Ella Dawn W-S
June 2022
Dancer for AXIS Dance Company’s 2022 Choreo-Lab (Choreographers: x and Audre Wirtanen; fellow dancers: Michelle Mantione, mae eskenazi, Caitlin Knowles, and Amy Ashley)
March 2022
“Rehearsing Virtual Accessibility for the (Not Yet) Post-Pandemic Future,” co-presented with Janet Werther, Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC) Pedagogy Symposium
October 2021
51 visits/The Art-Wrist Is Present [a series of virtual and in-person one-on-one visits as part of Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF), Snug Harbor PASS Residency]
July 2021
NET-WORK IN ACCESS ORANGE: an interactive social sculpture by Zoey Hart (The Waterfront Museum), performed with Zoey Hart and attendees of Crip’d Fleets: Overflows + Disruptions’ Disability Dance Cabaret on a Boat
April 2021
“House of Repetitions: Disability Aesthetics and Care Choreographies in a Stay-at-Home Era” (CUNY Doctoral Theatre Students’ Association Annual Conference), presented as part of the “Movements of the Everyday” Panel
November 2020
Guest on Sakina Laksimi-Morrow’s podcast, “Teaching and Our Dystopian Reality” (a conversation about disability, chronic illness, and access as an ongoing practice)
July 2020
“Bellows and Bedfellows: Queer Aesthetics in Pauline Oliveros and Deborah Hay’s The Well” (Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference), presented as part of the Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholars Panel
Spring/Summer 2020
Dance/NYC’s Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program
January 2020 - March 2022
Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) (Snug Harbor Cultural Center PASS Residency), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Alexander Enzo Hope, Simone Johnson, Yo-Yo Lin, Julia Lucrecia Taveras, and Ella Dawn W-S
November 2019
“‘On Thee I Feed’: Eucharistic Ritual as White Assimilationist Performance” (American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference), presented as part of the “A Matter of Public Taste(s)” Food and Performance Working Session
July 2019
open reduction internal fixation, or a series of barrel rolls for falco lombardi (The Whole Shebang Open Space Residency), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Laura Farrell
February/March 2019
(you)logy, (me)logy, choreographed by Ella Dawn W-S/dancews (University Settlement), performed with Carlyn Kane, Zoe Papaeracleous, and Ella Dawn W-S
December 2018
SFAREGQ [Registration Query Form] (Triskelion Arts), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique and Ella Dawn W-S
November 2018 - May 2019
Screenshot from video by Eric Fleischauer; drone_dance01_trim.mp4 [Image description from left to right: Kiera and Matthew stand in a green field together, surrounded by trees. Kiera plays accordion, and Matthew plays violin.]
Private Inventory or No Health Insurance, created by Londs Reuter (Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Montgomery Gardens)
September/November 2018
it happens all at once but not right now, choreographed by Ella Dawn W-S/dancews (University Settlement, Old First Reformed Church), performed with EG Condon, Carlyn Kane, and Zoe Papaeracleous
August 2018
sean-tigh/seanchaí (Governors Island, Opal Water Circle), conceived and performed in collaboration with Simone Johnson as part of Simone Johnson’s Works on Water/Underwater New York Residency
July 2018
metal af, like actually ‘cause iron or whatever (Old Furnace Artist Residency), solo composition performed on Massanutten Mountain’s Story Book Trail
June 2018
drone_dance01_trim.mp4 (Catwalk Art Residency), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Matthew D. Morrison, video by Eric Fleischauer, sound recording by May Beattie
![Photo by Marianne Killackey; SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1530630246733-XCO75DB5MSD2K3ZAK7WN/image-asset.jpeg)
Photo by Marianne Killackey; SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary] [Image description: Kiera lies face down on a wooden floor while Simone and Melisande kneel and lean over Kiera.]
March 2018
SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary] (Safe Harbors of the Hudson Lobby at the Ritz Theater, Small Plates Choreography Festival), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique, Laura Farrell, and Simone Johnson
![Photo by Maiya Elliott; SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1530630722543-O6YUSMWVIJB6V1ICVXNN/image-asset.jpeg)
Photo by Maiya Elliott; SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary] [Image description: Kiera stacks their abdomen on Laura’s back while Laura is positioned on her hands and knees on a wooden floor.]
February 2018
SOAIDNS [Person Search Detail] (Be Yoga & Dance), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique and Simone Johnson
SOAIDEN [Person Search] (The Owl Music Parlor), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Melisande Echanique and Simone Johnson
Photo by Alex Enzo Hope; Wasted installation by Alex Enzo Hope (Silent Barn) [Image description: an installation of IV bags, wires, stockinettes, and other forms of medical trash.]
November 2017
Source/Background Institution Query-Only [SOISBGI] (Green Space), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Laura Farrell
September - November 2017
Wasted by Alex Enzo Hope (Silent Barn), installation curated in collaboration with Alex Enzo Hope
August 2017
Trash Capsules: Archives of Food, Illness, and Diaspora (New Women Space), co-curated with Alex Enzo Hope; choreographed and performed SAADCRV: Margherita Pie and Peaches in collaboration with Simone Johnson and Angelina Marriott
Empathy Suits by Zoey Hart (The Old Stone House), performed with Nick Dunston, Zoey Hart, and Linzi Silverman
July - November 2017
SAADCRV: Jerky (Silent Barn), choreographed and performed as a solo (mostly) hidden movement installation
June 2017
SAADCRV: LUNA® Bar (Chez Bushwick works-in-progress showing), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Angelina Marriott
May 2017
Apple Crisp Collaboration (Catwalk Art Residency), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Purcell Palmer, Kelly Thompson, and Chae Kyung-Lee's apples
September/November 2016
bad woods, choreographed by Melissa West (Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center; College of Staten Island, CUNY Dance Initiative), performed with Sandra Bentsen, Tom Bones, Melisande Echanique, and Laura Neese
July 2016
Pillow Dance Iteration, presented as part of Solace, curated by Lark Morgenstern and the 133 Design Collective (776 Lorimer Street), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Angelina Marriott
2014 - 2015
Pillow Dances (informal studio showing at Gibney Dance Center and recurring site-specific performances in kitchen and dining spaces), developed movement practices in collaboration with Laura Farrell and Angelina Marriott
May 2013
P4: Pending Review 4 (The New School), choreographed/arranged/performed in collaboration with Gabriel Dresdale, Zoë Lefkowitz, Angelina Marriott, and Julia Taveras
May 2012
Screenshot from Apple Crisp Collaboration [Image description: Kiera stands on the ball of their left foot with their right foot extended slightly to the side in the air and their arms extended above their head on a wooden roof with a fence and green trees around it.
Photo by Dana Trunk; Pillow Dance Iteration [Image description from left to right: Angelina and Kiera stand in a room with brick walls and a large window and pillow sculpture on the right. They are both wearing black and touching their own right forearms with their left hands.]
Supplement (Gowanus Loft), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Marion Storm, Laura Farrell, Isabella Jackson, and Zoë Lefkowitz
April 2012
Let Me Remember (The New School), directed in collaboration with Laura Farrell
March 2011
From the Fire, composed by Elizabeth Swados, directed by Cecilia Rubino, choreographed by Eric Jackson Bradley (Judson Memorial Church)