If you do what you love, and keep working, over the years, many blessings released into the world as wishes for harmony manifest, with gratitude.

Welcome to my archive of dance theater and performance works spanning decades of embodied storytelling. These pieces reflect not only artistic exploration but also a lived journey through memory, resilience, trauma healing, and ancestral reclamation. Each work carries its own thread of truth, transformation, and deep listening.

It is not true, do what you love, and the money will follow. I have not found this to yet be manifest, do to what you love, and money will follow. I chose to keep the sacred medicine work, that the arts have been for me, with the intention for it to ripple out, and bring healing to the world, separate from my creative work.

Listing of Performance Work: Dance, Performance Installation, Acting

1. Dreamscape - quartet - UCSB

2. After Birth – duet - UCSB

3. Harvest Moon – solo - Cal Arts, 1993

1. Splice - trio - Cal Arts, 1993

2. My Cat Thomas - duet, 1993

3. Dancing on My Daddies Grave: evening length work, 2 actresses, 6 dancers - Cal Arts, 1994

4. the above paired with a film, that was a part of the creative research for the dance. Dancing on my Father's Grave, 1994

5. A Bao A Qu - solo

6. Hot Ice: evening length work, 3 musicians, 4 dancers

7. Nadar Sabe Mi Llama el Agua Fria: solo

8. Gypsy Dreams: solo

9. Fragile Wings: duet in collaboration with Kirsten Stuart

10. Etch-a-Retro-Sketch: solo

11. The Travelling Brick Show: in collaboration with the Open Spaces Project

12. Cachao – a galvanized trash receptacle: directed by Stephen Kelly

13. Twang - quartet

14. Lion’s Fire - quintet

15. Le Jardin Rouge - duet: Performance at Center Stage Theatre: Gwenna Devries and Kaita Lepore.

16. Something Sweet – trio

17. Grit I - duet

18. Under No Certain Circumstances - duet

19. Elegy for a Clown (in collaboration with Stephen Kelly and Ray Tischer) - trio

20. Whisk - solo

21. Ranunculus - solo

22. X=Y – duet in collaboration with Stephen Lovelace

23. Flint – 8 dancers

24. Wallflower – 10 dancers

25. Grit II - duet

26. Unzipped – duet co-created with Joanna Nobbe

27. Moki’s Wedding - solo

28. A Bao A Qu II - solo

29. Paint My Wrinkles Red: photography/video, storytelling

30. One World is Never Enough (in collaboration with Stephen Kelly and the performers)

31. Patchwork Chameleon - solo

32. Two Ways All Ways (in collaboration with Stephen Kelly and Cecily Stewart) -duet

33. Flip Side of Each Other (in collaboration with Mojca Majcen and Stephen Kelly) - duet

34. Alma Karlin – travel – quintet

35. Alma Karlin – wild - quintet

36. Alma Karlin – en pointe – duet, co-created with Stephen Kelly

37. DID – Multiple Me – trio, concept, Misa Kelly, co-created with Trina Mannino and Joana Nobbe

38. Manatee: Ode to My Beloved - solo: original improvisation

39. Alma.Sama – evening length work co-created with ArtBark International Collaborators - quartet

40. ??? (excerpt for What’s the Solution) - solo

41. What’s the SoLOVETion – co-created with Hannah Ruth Brothers - duet

42. My Story – storytelling

43. ??? – II - duet

44. QUENCH – quintet

45. What’s the Solution – solo

46. Alma.Sama. reprisal: tightening and reshaping Alma.Sama. from a quartet to a trio

47. Art is My Religion – staged reading with video projection

48. The Van Gogh Project

49. The Dream Cycle Series

50. Cheating at Checkers – one-act play

51. Time Out – one-act play

One Women Visual Art Shows

1. Yoga Soup: NECTAR – The Art of Healing, Santa Barbara CA - 2014

2. Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY - 2013

3. ContraMASS Galerie, Vienna AUSTRIA - 2012

4. Yoga Soup: NECTAR – War and Peace, Santa Barbara CA - 2011

5. Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA - 2000

Shared Visual Art Shows

1. Yoga Soup: NECTAR – Rise, Santa Barbara CA – 2017

2. The Secrets Sisters Share: Leilani & Miele

3. Yoga Soup: NECTAR – God, Santa Barbara CA – 2018

4. Drawing in Proxy and Art from Strange Places: Leilani & Miele

5. The Van Gogh Project – Triskelion Arts Brooklyn, NY - 2018

Group Visual Art Shows

1. God is a Woman

2. Synergy I, Victoria Theater, Santa Barbara CA

3. Synergy II, Victoria Theater, Santa Barbara CA

4. University of California, Santa Barara, Women’s Center 

5. Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara CA

Installations

The Travelling Brick Show, Victoria Theater, Santa Barbara CA

Santa Barbara Public Parks 

The Pescadrome: Cut the Edge One (concept, organization of multiple creative), Santa Barbara CA

The Pescadrome: Cut the Edge Two (concept, organization of multiple creative), Santa Barbara CA

Hot Ice – the Lady Di Project, Center Stage Theater patio and foray, Santa Barbara CA

The God’s of Goleta – for Santa Barbara Dance Theater production, Hatlen Theater, Goleta CA

Dancing on My Daddies Grave – MFA Thesis installation, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Films/Video/Experimentation

Passage (soloist)

Dancing on my Father’s Grave (concept, direction, acting): collaboration with Bill Russell and Rainbow Underhill

Fasebook Performance Project (with Sojourner Kincaide Rolle)

The Ballerina Project

Integrative Arts Performance Exploration Series

Paint My Wrinkles Red

Alma (video editing)

Stop Action Film – the Dragon’s Egg (with Stephen Kelly)

Summer of Mondays

Songs & Poetry 

Havenʻt begun to organize

Photography 

Havenʻt begun to organize

Book Projects 

Donklephant Dreams

I Thrive

Tips from the Dancemaker Trade

Ombuds Publications

Visual Art

Beginning to figure out how to organize

UCSB & Cal Arts

I set the intention to connect all the videos of work here, knowing, yes, they pale to live performance, but it is a memory.  I also set the intention to upload them to the internet archive, given, I can see I am ahead of my times, and the work, dance as medicine and decolonization and healing, that journey, is not something institutions may see or value, becuase it undermines the very systems of organizations that led to cultures of racicm, trafficking, medical experimentation and harm. I am discovering, some of the trauma is kindred to what other survivors report that was funded by the CIA. So in essence, taxpayers paid with their tax dollars to fund experimental programs that harmed some children  greatly.

2014

2014

In 2014, I was working my day job as a receptionist at a law firm, and also serving on the Board of Directors of the non-profit. Our company work was under ArtBark International. https://artbarkinternation.wixsite.com/mysite/artbark-2014

Diavolo Theater, Los Angeles, CA      2014

Awakenings and Beginnings Dance Festival

– Choreographer & Co-Creator (Alma – group section), Performance, Costume Design 

– Performance with the Nicole McKenzie Improv Group

- Produced by Rubans Rouge Dance Company

Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA       February 21st, 22nd                     2014

Kinesis

– Choreographer & Co-Creator (Alma, group section), Performance, Costume Design 

- Produced by the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance

Yoga Soup, Santa Barbara, CA          2014

NECTAR: The Art of Healing

– Choreographer & Co-Creator (Alma, the Wilds section), Performance, Costume Design Production support, technical support for event

– Performance with the Nicole McKenzie Improv Group

- Produced by Cybil Gilbertson

Montecito School of Ballet, Santa Barbara, CA            2014

La Combadura Residency Studio Showing

– Choreographer & Co-Creator (Alma, the Wilds section), Performance, Costume Design, Co-Producer 

- Produced by ArtBark International

Bronx Academy of Art and Dance (BAAD), Bronx, NY            2014

Boogie Down Dance Series

– Choreographer & Co-Creator (Alma, the Wilds section), Performance, Costume Design 

- Produced by BAAD

Montecito School of Ballet, Santa Barbara, CA            2014

ArtBark International Show N’ Tell Performance Series

– Producer & performance with the Nicole McKenzie Improv Group

- Produced by ArtBark International

Canon Perdido and State, Santa Barbara, CA            2014

ArtBark International & Friends – 1st Thursdays

– Presentation of Santa Barbara performing arts groups organized by ArtBark International

- 1st Thursdays organized by the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization

The Dragon’s Egg, Ledyard, CT           2014

ArtBark International Residency

– Performance research for multiple projects with Trina Mannino, Barbara Mahler, and Joanna Nobbe

- Residency space provided by Mystic Paper Beasts & the Dragon’s Egg

ARC Pasadena, Pasadena, CA           2014

Summer Showcase 2: "Secrets & The Silent Rose"

– Performance of Manatee: Ode to My Beloved with community company

- Produced by Rubans Rouges Dance Company

Miles Memorial Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA           2014

MixMatch Dance Festival

– Performance of Manatee: Ode to My Beloved and performance with the Nicole McKenzie Improv Group

- Produced by Hart Pulse Dance Company

Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY           2014

Dragons Egg Presents at Triskelion Arts 

– Performance of DID as in Multiple ME with Joanna Nobbe and Trina Mannino

- Produced by Mystic Paper Beasts

Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA           2014

The HIVE presents “Buzz”

– Performance of Manatee: Ode to My Beloved and contribution to Production Design and Process