About My Work

My dances dam off imagined environments, ponding strangeness. They are always in flux, demanding ecological shifts, building and unbuilding what is tangible or perceivable. I am interested in how pushing moves the pusher, not just the pushed. I like to repurpose the mundane into the monumental. I play with gross and fabulous interchangeably. I use resistance as a way to participate. I am all about a deep vibrating howl.

I have always felt deeply, empathizing until I was unable to differentiate where I ended and the not-me began. I dance to deterritorialize the terrain I inhabit - to dissolve the barrier between inside and out. I dance so that I can feel a world that makes some sense to me. It is neither logical nor linear, but it is always about survival. I often say I am unearthing something while I am dancing, asking for my body to offer me back memories and experiences so that I can build monsters and aliens with foraged artifacts that have been left in my intestines, muscles, and scars. Dancing is how I radically reclaim these parts of myself as sensational.

My practices use a deep and rigorous research of my body’s episodes, self-reflective of the past and potentializing the future. I transpose anatomical and biological research into the studio using it as a filter for how I investigate myself, my interactions with others and objects. I practice going in to propose a way for me to reach out. My dances teach me my own potential for being… being alone, being connected, being en masse, and I hope that they reveal something about the social, political, and cultural fabric in which we live. Researching pleasure within myself deepens my curiosity and empathy for others. I focus on interdependence and actively choose to invest in collaborative practices. My dances insist on a future where individuated collectivity purposes a model for sustainability. 

We barter, help, and heal one another.