Keyhole Residencies

And now they’re back. 🤷‍♀️

Keyhole’s posts have disappeared. I don’t know why. Photos are still here. And so am I.

Another great workshop at Vassar Drama Dept with Gabrielle Cody’s class. Thanks for all your energy and exploration!

Lady Liberty. Quick trip for Keyhole and the city.

An Artist's History, part 2: Through junior high and high school, I took ballet classes after school at Simms Academy in St. Louis. In my last couple years, this meant 6 days a week, at least 2 hours a day. I turned down a prestigious high school when they said I had to take sports instead.

I was behind the eight ball. I started late for ballet, and ballet was all I knew. And teen years are hard. I was fortunate that Roni Simms valued bringing in wonderful long-term teachers from the larger world of ballet. The most formative was William Earl, who had danced with NYC Ballet under Balanchine, and was quite a character. He was a wild and energetic teacher, and for a girl who knew she was going to make dance her life and knew that no one saw that, he was perfect. He never treated me like the intermediate girl in the advanced class that everyone else saw me as. His "character" class was fun and thrilling - getting character shoes and learning mazurkas! I remember one day there was a huge thunderstorm while we were in class, and he opened all the windows to let the thunder in, booming in his big voice that he loved the energy! Synchronicity. I was on my way.

As an artist, when you forget where you stand in the long history of your art, when you forget where and who you came from, you start to forget who you are and what you're doing in this life. In that light, I'm starting a small series. I've chosen a public accounting, something that won't just live in my head but out in the world, in hopes of holding myself accountable, but also reaching anyone who connects with this.
Up first: Dancing in front of the Carl Milles fountain, "Meeting of the Waters", across from Union Station in St. Louis, age 2; and again dancing with the Milles sculptures at Milles' home/museum, Millesgarden, in Stockholm, 2010. The connection to Milles is thanks to my parents, Jan & Phil, of course my first influences, who met and married at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Milles was Cranbrook's sculptor in residence from 1931-51, and the campus is home to many of his sculptures. I love his work - playful, full of joy.

Here's a short promo video from my residency at the National Building Museum earlier this year, where I and my performers created the piece Transits and Passages. Just an overview with interviews - more to come! Enjoy.

Creative in Residence at the National Building Museum Creative in Residence Heather Sultz joined the Museum in January 2019 for unique opportunities to explore and learn about the Museum’s historic building. Hea...

We had huge crowds and an exhilarating couple of shows of Transits and Passages at the National Building Museum yesterday. Thank you so much to my amazing company of movers, to musicians Tommie Adams Jr and Greg Watkins, and to NBM for making this residency possible. I'll be posting more pics, but for now these few. I love what I do.

Thanks DCist for the thoughtful article on my Keyhole Residencies site-specific performance on Saturday at the National Building Museum:

The National Building Museum, Paperwork, And The Civil War Inspired This New Site-Specific Dance | DCist The dancers are a mix of formally trained dancers, novices, and architecture enthusiasts who were chosen at an open audition earlier this month