My longtime collaborator, we have been making pieces together since the mid-80's. We started out as improvisors and have evolved into a choreographer and composer/still dedicated to improvisation. "Her movement is ferocious in its concentration and fiercely taxing in its execution..." Most of the scores I have made for Jennifer have been played live, musicians occupying the same space as the dancers.
Sender   The Kitchen   NYC, 1997
La Mer  

PS 122   NYC, 1995

Tacklerock   Danspace at St. Mark' Church  NYC, 1994
Finn's Shed   PS 122  NYC, 1991
Ursa's Door   Danspace at St. Mark's Church  NYC, 1990
Ignasius Bight   PS 122  NYC, 1989
Hunk/Toad/Deliver and Simon   Lincoln Center Out-of Doors   NYC, 1989
Blood on the Saddle   Danspace at St. Mark's Church   NYC, 1987
     
Jennifer danced for many years with Jennifer Monson. The work I have done with JL has allowed me to explore some of the more sculptural aspects of sound. In Voice tells....60 very small speakers hung above the audience, and then sets of stereo speakers placed behind, underneath and in front of the audience I played the electric harp live on stage thru an amp and there was a live mixer just off the stage moving the sound around the room. In $ Shot....I sit behind a long table just to the side of the set surrounded by the main sounds for this score which are various types of plastic. I also use a wave generator, filters, a ring modulator as well as leather, rocks, latex and other organic and inorganic matter. The sound reaches the audience thru 2 sets of stereo speakers. Here are selected performances of these two pieces:
$ Shot
A collaboration with
visual artist Nadia Lauro
  Kortrijk Theater   Kortrijk, Belgium, 2000
The Kitchen   NYC, 2000
Centre De Pompidou   Paris, 2000
Theatre de la Bastille   Paris, 2001
La Criee Centre D'art contemporain
Rennes, France, 2000
[voice tells] 14 tiny pictures
no more, no less
  PS 122   NYC, 1998
Serious Fun Festival
Darmstadt, Staattheater, 1998
Klapstuk Dance Festival
Leuven, Belgium France, 1997
Festival Nouvelle Scenes   Dijon, France,1997
     
When I first started working with Neil he had never used music or sound in any of his work. In the first piece I used sound very very sparingly , just a bit of wind a a few loops subtley placed. Most of the work I have done for Neil has been re-mixes and manipulation of pre-existing material.
     
Construction with
Varied Materials
  The Kitchen
NYC, 2000
Sequel Joyce Theater   NYC, 2000
My Fair Lady, Part Three The Joyce Theater   NYC, 1997
The Disco Project PS 122   NYC, 1996
Not-About-Aids Dance The Kitchen   NYC, 1994
Kick Me Dance La Mama Annex   NYC,1992
Destiny Dance PS 122   NYC, 1991
     
Cathy Weis and Scottie Heron The Kitchen   NYC, 2001
Texture/Composite Numerous performances in France, 1998-2000
Hup 2 Dance Theater Workshop   NYC, 1997
Wolf Dance Theater Workshop   NYC, 1995
Hup PS 122   NYC, 1992
Angel Animal Movement Research   NYC, 1990
Sante Fe Museum of Art
Sante Fe, NewMexico, 1990
Fissure Joyce Theater   NYC, 1988
Rickety Pearch Danspace at St. Mark's Church
NYC, 1989
     

Surface Noise Abigal Child
score by ZP, Christian Marclay, Jim Black, Shelley Hirsch, 2000
Treyf
Directors: Alisa Lebrow and
Cynthia Mandresky, 1998
  56 minutes
Hairless
Dir. Janene Higgins, 1996   3:45
Sleep
Director Janene Higgins   4 min
Soi-Meme
Director, M.M. Serra, 1996   5 min
Nightmare Alley
Director, Tom Lesser, 1993   4 min

The Opium War
Ana Maria Simo
Director, Linda Chapman
New York Theater Workshop, NYC, 1993
The Opium War
Ana Maria Simo
Director Linda Chapman
Intar II, NYC, 1991
Isabella Dreams
the New World
Written/Directed: Lenora Champagne
Ohio Theater, NYC, 1990
Salome
Oscar Wilde
adapted by Sarah Schulman
Director: Linda Chapman
PS 122, NYC, 1990
Fanon's People   Toby Armor, directed Aileen Passloff
Theater for the New City, NYC, 1988