I am motivated by the impulse to feel understood, as well as to better understand and relate to the world around me. The work I engage in as an interdisciplinary dance artist offers me the opportunity to process and express this impulse through movement. I am invested in the ways in which dance can serve as a form of communication, bridging the gap when traditional written and verbal language fails to effectively convey a feeling or idea. Dance’s ability to transcend vocabulary intrinsically gives it the power to spark the curiosities and identities that rest dormant within us. This is where my love for the form lies. To make dance, is to make magic. 

 

My background in language arts greatly informs the ways in which I explore the communicative and connective properties housed within dance. I think about dance as an archive, a physical embodiment of research. Like words on a page, carefully arranged, the creation and performance of movement serves as a vehicle for dynamic storytelling and worldbuilding. When working in collaborative environments, my contribution to the creative process draws from my deep investment in metaphor and myth, narrative and allegory. The intersection of language and dance introduces new sets of rules, characters, forces, and outcomes, ultimately deepening the richness through which we might experience each form.