Overview
As a performance artist, Andy draws on his background in music, including the Suzuki method in piano, and voice training, to inform the ever-so-important essence of temporal dynamics. His movement influences include aerial dance, body-weather training, contact improv, movement anatomy, yoga, climbing, parkour, physical theatre, action theatre, and laban analysis. Past performance projects include “Flight of the Pianist” (2011) a solo aerial performance on a suspended piano, “Full Disclosure Improv ™” (2010) with GRAY Performs, “Beyond Gravity” with dance-climb fusion troupe Ascendance (2009) and the Tenderswitch series (2010-2011) with the other-world creating PYTHIA Dance of Oakland CA. He is now in the process of creating a new solo show titled “Night of the Ninja 1: The Kitchen Dances”.
INDEPENDENT PERFORMANCE
- Flight of the Pianist, solo aerial performance and rigging. Visual design Ross Warren. Foundry Nights, May 2011, Berkeley CA.
- Full-Disclosure Improv(tm), duo with GRAY Performs, Moment’s Notice, Nov 2010, Berkeley CA.
COMPANY Performance
- PYTHIA Dance, “TenderSwitch part iii: Warrior the Sky”, Jack London Aquatic Center, Oakland CA. September 10-12 2011
- PYTHIA Dance, “TenderSwitch part ii: The Other”, Jack London Aquatic Center, Oakland CA. September 10-12 2010
- PYTHIA Dance, “TenderSwitch part i: A Dance on the Brink of the World”, Jack London Aquatic Center, Oakland CA. September 10-12 2010
- Ascendance Project, “Beyond Gravity”, Ashby Stage, Berkeley CA. March 5-14 2010
- Ascendance Project, “Beyond Gravity”, Boulder Aerial Dance Festival. August 14 2009
- Ascendance Project, “Beyond Gravity”, Outdoor Retailer Industry Party. July 21 2009
- Ascendance Project, Bridges Rock Gym Opening Gala. March 28-29 2009.
TALKS
- A Mathematical Theory of “Interestingness” for Creative Machines and Artistic Humans, at “Do Androids Paint Electric Sheep?”, 2010, GAFFTA, San Francisco, CA.