choreography

I believe dance-making and dance performance serve as a social and transformative experience.

My movement language is largely informed by postmodern and transmodern dance techniques and somatic practices.

Through movement, I explore virtuosity by blending physically rigorous, sensitive, and risk-taking movement patterns with intentional, functional performance tasks. My practice applies elements of somatic movement and improvisational structures as a method for choreographic experimentation. My choreographic research seeks to deconstruct traditional notions of dance presentation to locate where technicality, virtuosity, experimentation, and interdisciplinary performance can dynamically coexist.

My process experiments with movement vignettes encompassing duration, repetitive movement patterns, and improvisational structures. I explore imagery, energy, emotion, and memory as materiality, and I add these textures into set movement scores to magnify a more visceral, felt experience. I utilize these methods as entry points into finding more complex and intentional movement experiences. I aim to dissect my current knowledge of contemporary dance to further understand how its history and tradition is held in my body, and to discover how movement and dance presentation can serve as a larger metaphor for collective healing.

Establishing trust, empathy, and vulnerability through collaboration and performance inspires ways to reimagine tradition and create a shared, experiential environment for performer and viewer. These systems and practices within my creative process offers guidance for me to cross boundaries, take risks, and discover new meanings about healing, the purpose of dance, and the realities of human phenomena on a more embodied level. Cultivating spaces that are reflective of a functioning and equitable democratic society, inclusive of collective participation, and which foster social transformation, is of utmost importance to my work.