Danielle has worked as a
multi-faceted artist for Aerial Dance Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet, the Colorado
Ballet, Frequent Flyers® and the Paloma Project, and has even interned with Oprah Winfrey. Danielle has performed and/or
taught as an independent artist at the Berlin Circus Festival/Berlin; Frequent
Flyers® Aerial Dance Festival/Boulder, Colorado; Santa Barbara Floor to Air
Festival/Santa Barbara; Aerial Greece/Athens, Greece; the San Francisco Aerial
Dance/California; and Les Rencontres de Danse Aérienne/Nantes, France. Her
artistic and academic work has taken her to Paris, Berlin, Athens, Brussels,
Amsterdam, Toulouse, Lyon, Avallon, Nantes, London, Brighton, Lisbon, Florence,
Barcelona, Madrid, Seville as well as throughout the U.S. Danielle is the
second MFA dance graduate with an emphasis in aerial dance and somatics at the
University of Colorado Boulder. During 2017-2018, Danielle was a Fulbright France
Scholar with an affiliation as a Resident Artist at La Grainerie in Toulouse,
where she worked on her multi-disciplinary project MAPS (Multicultural Aerial
Performance Stories), which explored the topics of grief and news media through
interactive performance. Upon completing her Fulbright, she returned
to Europe to work on four projects: In Berlin, Danielle taught
transdisciplinary artistic collaboration at the renowned Berlin Circus
Festival. As an artist in residency at Nils Obstrat in Paris, she collaborated with Leslie
Levi and Laura Desimages on a VR/360/3D/drone film that was commissioned by the
Commission Franco-Américaine. This film
obscures drone and human body suspension to
arouse a destabilizing proprioceptive experience for the audience. In Athens, Danielle collaborated on a performance with a public sound installation housed in three large sculptures created
by Rebecca Deutsch. In Avallon, Danielle was invited to participate in the Circus
Dialogues Project, facilitated by Belgian Professor Bauke Lievens. This
groundbreaking project is a critical examination of contemporary
European cirque. Additionally, Tethered, a dance film made in France
through collaboration with an art photographer and experimental filmmaker,
David Allen and Franck Gonnaud, respectively, was screened at the Sans Souci
Festival of Dance Cinema. Recently, Danielle performed in Open Space as well as had a resdiency at
SBCAST
in Santa Barbara where she collaborated with neuroscientists on creating
parasympathetic responses via aerial fabric community improvisations as part of the TACTUS retreat. Additionally Danielle was selected to respresent Boulder artists for the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema Community Project as well as invited to be a part of the B.E.A.T (Boulder Experimental Arts and technology) exhibition. Danielle is currently continuing her research as a PhD student en cotutelle at Concordia University in Montréal and Université de Montpellier in France. She is also a part of the international Fulbright Specialist Roster from 2021-2025.
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SELECTED WORKS REEL
MOVING IMAGES
STILL IMAGES
HEADSHOT
PERFORMATIVE WRITING SAMPLES
MFA THESIS INSTALLATION
PHILOSOPHIES
PUBLISHED WORK
Video footage by Cattelan Yvan
filmed at Le Lido Toulouse, France
filmed at Le Lido Toulouse, France