HISTORY

I met rashaun and silas through my partner, Claudia La Rocco, who wrote about dance for many years and had a deep friendship with these two amazing individuals who came out of merce cunningham's company but when their own way after his death and have been forging a path all their own as choreographers and improvisers. Rashaun and I first worked together, contributing to the staged readings of La Rocco's science fiction novel, Le Petit Cadeau at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City, NY. We were both smitten with each other's work and vowed to do something. That something was realized at The Lab in San Francisco, when we performed in trio with Fred Frith, a show that was videotaped and is slated for release on DVD. The next thing I knew, Rashaun and Silas called me up to perform with them in a festival celebrating the work of dance pioneer Anna Halprin at Marfa Sounding, a performance that gave us a ten-acre expanse in the desert to use as a stage. I led the audience from the road down a slope for about a half a mile before we arrived at a location we had designated as a stage. We improvised for nearly an hour as dusk gathered; it was a transcendent experience I'll never forget. We performed in quartet with pianist Evelyn Davis at The Lab in SF, and the performance was documented on video - along with a trio performance (Greenlief and Mitchell) at The Lab with Fred Frith, these performances are slated for release on DVD/blu-ray in 2020.