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 seek to unwind and unpeel our physical self, investigating the multitude of lineages, fictions, blockages, and yearnings we carry. Through movement, I seek to sensitize our beings and awaken our reactivity to other bodies and our own complexities. I explore how choreographic structures can thicken the space between beings, creating a tensile tissue of interdependence and knowledge-production.
Emerging from energetic practices and queer/feminist theory, the choreographic material of my work metabolizes experiences of trauma and violence. Through repetition and relentless complexifying, I follow how the body transforms under pressure and carves new pathways of possibility. I work through the somatic states of precarity, risk, and exhaustion to unearth a deeply-held visceral power of the individual and collective. Queer and Feminist Theory inform my work and connect the somatic state of precarity with the insecurity of living under patriarchal capitalism. In my choreography, I tease 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.