statement/intent

When I dance, I experience simultaneous intimacy and distance from my body. What seems to be a purely aesthetic investigation becomes so many other things.  I can feel the flux inside of me, in relation to the flux outside of myself.  

I value how making dances together illuminates how we each come to words, space, and time differently.  I am interested in feeling how cultures and ideas manifest differently in movement and materials, and through interstitial understandings of time and causation.

I believe that we come to know ourselves through each other.  Our ways of empathy, labor, and knowledge disseminate.  We connect, not as a great mass, but through the flow of thinking actions.  We are bodies that matter in excess of ourselves.  

I value engaging new territories of collaborative research that are broadening the ways dance is shaped and shared and have come to conceive of my artistic practice as one that straddles the roles of choreographer, performer, filmmaker, teacher, community organizer, curator, and advocate. Dance-based research allows me to inspire sensory awareness regarding land usage, bio-diversity, migrations, displacements, representation, and access — avenues through which I create collective meaning, cultural awareness, and participatory celebration for what we share.

It is an act of faith to come together in public spaces. When gatherings include the warm welcome of food, music, and dancing, the historical weight and inertia of places are more easily transformed. Whether grant writing, producing shows, offering movement experiences, or hosting multi-sensory forays and dinners, I like to spark exchange and see projects arrive at their fruition. The tools of dance composition translate across disciplines — at once spatial, temporal, and social — and I am excited to diversify and grow regional audiences for interdisciplinary arts encounters and to connect with southeastern organizations who align with dance as a liberatory catalyst for and beyond discourse.