Teaching

I teach game design and motion capture animation at George Mason University, where I treat movement as a material you can design with — the same conviction that runs through all of my work.

For me, dance and games have never been separate practices. They are two ways of asking the same questions — about how a body moves through space, how a person reads what they see and decides what to do next, and how rules and constraints can become a kind of choreography. I came to game design from the studio and the stage, by way of motion capture, and that path is the one I try to open up for my students: technology not as a destination but as another room the moving body can enter.

Much of my teaching lives at the intersection of the game engine and the dancing body. In motion capture animation, students learn to record live movement and shape it into something legible on screen — to notice what survives the translation from flesh to data and what has to be rebuilt by hand. In game design, we work through the harder, quieter craft: what a player is actually doing, moment to moment, and why it should matter to them.

Talks & teaching