Truth be told, I think of Dance Naked the company  as having been born in 2008, when I produced and directed my first ensemble show, Inviting Desire. 

That was the year of the first Fertile Ground Festival, and I flung my hat into the ring.  Though I'd never directed anything outside of college, I was deeply curious about whether my idea would work.  I wanted to turn the fantasies from Nancy Friday's book My Secret Garden into monologues.  

I held auditions and had an amazing turn out of incredibly talented women.  I cast a group of seven and we began the process of creating a show.  But rather than use a book as source material, the women I cast chose to use their own imaginations.  We created a show that was original, edgy and sexy af.

Inviting Desire: A Theatrical Aphrodisiac was a surprise hit, and spawned a touring version (Lubricate Your Libido), and two more original productions (Pleasure, Permission, Possibility...and The Dawn of Sex).  

At one point, i had a few compilation videos from those shows here on my website, but recently, my account was removed from Vimeo, where those videos were hosted (the censorship of my work has dramatically increased in the last few years).  I've decided not to post them publicly.  While I am extremely proud of those shows, we are in a different cultural climate around sexuality these days. 

Having video made of my productions has never been a high priority for me.  I have a huge bias towards the primacy of the live experience.  I am belligerent about the importance of BEING IN THE SAME ROOM with one another. Watching the video feels so diminishing.  I wanna see you AT the theater.  I wanna hug you at the door.  I wanna look into your eyes when I look out into the audience.  I wanna breath the same air. 

But I know that a video is worth a thousand words - so here are some examples from the various Inviting Desires...