His book, Thirty-nine Microlectures in Proximity of Performance will be published by Routledge in fall, 2000. She was a founding member of the Los Angeles performance collective Hangers and has mounted over thirty interdisciplinary performances since 1981. She is currently a professor in the Performance Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in New Genres, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Choreography, and three Illinois Arts Council fellowships in Performance. Since 1996, she and other members of Goat Island have presented the annual Goat Island Summer School at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland.
Daily work includes yoga and vocal exercises, and extended physical and vocal improvisations.
Throughout the workshop, a variety of exercises explore personal material in a performance context, as well as alternative methods for performance composition. A large portion of the workshop is dedicated to the Rasa Box exercises, a unique psychophysical approach to the development of emotional depth, agility, and expressiveness. Students work closely with ECA's accomplished performers and directors, and work individually and in groups outside the workshop to create original performance compositions. The workshop includes several master classes led by Richard Schechner. Paula Murray Cole, a member of East Coast Artists, has played Natasha in Chekhov's Three Sisters and Ofelia in Hamlet.