Artist Statement

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​I am inspired by human relationships, human interaction, and how we connect. How is it possible to live in such a large world and constantly be reveled by the smallness? Does every action create a reaction and how does that relate to the pathway of one’s life? These are questions I constantly seek to investigate in my movement, while bridging the communication between the artist and the audience. I strive to create and project engaging, captivating, intellectual work. I find working with film, projections and multi-media, one more extension of dance that can reach an audience effectively and accessibly.

I also believe that collaboration is a great tool in the creative process. I believe the collective is be greater than the individual and through this value, I align myself in the studio, classroom, and stage to co-create knowledge in communal ways.

My research at large is a multi-faceted trajectory of both dance accessibility through technology and social issues rooted in intersectional feminism. Both of these topics, for me, have operated in a cyclical approach. One element leads into the next, which informs the other.

On technology, some of my questions are: Where can screendance live? Can video dance be kept completely online and if so, does it become a question of proprietorship on the Internet? How is social media affecting every aspect of dance consumption? How is dance film sustainable?

My current research and work has a lens on ecofeminism and the patriarchal mechanisms that assimilate women and nature. Both often devalued and exploited, seeking elevation and liberation, the relationship between them is a rhizome of interconnections. I find that using history and theory, combined with text and poetry, generates movements, motifs, and systems that can then collaboratively weave together in space. 

Right now, these ideas explore identities of womanhood, cyclical patterns of nature and violence, migration, resistance, and how experiences of hurt, healing, and survival can loop and transform over time.

Over the next five years, I plan to continue the development of my research, while increasing the involvement of new technology throughout my work. Specifically, the goal is to increase my knowledge on projection mapping, reactionary, and interactive projections through performance in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. I am an artist who is not interested in only one ingredient of the work. I am trained to be the choreographer, the filmmaker, the director, the editor, and the producer. As such, I am constantly learning and growing in my field to do each element with intention and skill.