I am a choreographer investigating the utility of movement for claiming embodied agency. My work declares aliveness and unapologetic presence, disrupting systems that restrict bodily autonomy. My lived experience, community, and training as a dancer, runner, and athlete fuel my movement invention. Pushing against a capitalist patriarchal hegemony intent on driving us to numb and isolate, my work activates a need to connect to our bodies and one another to survive.
Originally from northern California, I am currently pursuing an MFA in Dance at The Ohio State University. I have shown my work in festivals such as Ohio Dance Festival, PUSHfest Global, Broad Statements Festival, and SpectorDance Choreography Showcase. In 2024, I was selected as a member of the ATLAS choreographic training program at ImPulsTanz, Vienna’s International Dance Festival. I have been an artist-in-residence at Levy Dance, Iowa Choreography Festival, and SAFEhouse Arts. I work across disciplines – from site to stage to film to the classroom – with the goal of finding movement’s potential for enlivening catharsis. I move from core commitments to anti-racism, sustainable practices, and body empowerment.
Artist Statement
My work centers the body, allowing it to command attention and space. I make contemporary dance that unwinds and unpeels the self, embracing the whole person in an investigation of the lineages, fictions, blockages, and yearnings we carry. Embodied feminist ideologies, community care, and play between energetic states ground my dance making. In my creative process, I experiment with highly complex, rigorous physical tasks informed by my study of release-based Contemporary, Floorwork, Jazz, West African, and endurance-based sports. I then layer spatial, temporal, and energetic tasks to relentlessly complexify the game. This persistent complexity invites the somatic state of precarity: an embodiment of the delicate instability that exposes the effort, exhaustion, and deeply-held visceral power of the body at work. Queer and Feminist Theory connect the somatic state of precarity with the insecurity of living under patriarchal capitalism. Through the ability to move within precarity, we practice an embodied resilience. By embracing an urgent drive towards vitality and connection – I aim to create choreography that activates us towards liberatory, anti-patriarchal futures. My movement teases out the delicate edges of precarious balance while eliciting an innate drive of momentum to suggest not only the exhaustive effort of moving through risk but also the resilient potentialities of the empowered body. My work follows how the body transforms under pressure and carves new pathways of possibility.