artist statement
I create performance made of movement, language and song that prioritizes relatability and emotional honesty.
My goals are to captivate a diverse audience and to stimulate their humanity.
I am equally poet and movement maker, braiding dance and language to illuminate images, emotions and sounds that have universal resonance.
My work is informed by classical, contemporary and hip-hop dance, folk song practices, devised theater, method acting, the poetry of both the academy and the slam.
I believe that our favorite music, films and books make us more full, more alive, more connected to ourselves and to each other. I believe that contemporary performance should open us to the pocket of human vitality that we feel in a dark movie theater, or blasting the sound system in our cars with the windows rolled down.