Artist Statement

My artistic journey is one of expansion—expanding out of perfectionism and into pleasure. I have found this experience of unfurling, this stretching of my imaginative self, to be an incredibly abundant, captivating, and delightfully confounding way to experience life. Through this, my personal investigative curiosities have become rooted in the belief that dance is a formidable tool for exploring the complexities of affection, identity, and power.

While excavating my choreographic realms, I am fascinated by the tension that lies between humor and absurdity, two forces that both disrupt and illuminate our everyday realities. The body, in all its vulnerability and preposterousness, becomes a vessel for questioning the roles that we are asked to perform—whether as culturally gender-beings, as deep lovers, as artists, or as individuals. I am drawn to the ways that wit can expose the contradictions of societal expectations, particularly when it comes to gender performativity, as well as the pervasive structures of dominance that act to shape how we navigate our individual worlds.

My choreography is a space where pleasure and pain, passion and discomfort, coexist. I am intrigued by the way our physical and emotional selves can hold both extremes at once—where joy and agony blur, where a fit of laughter might accompany excruciating tears. I believe that these contradictions are not meant to be reconciled, but to be felt, questioned, and experienced in all their intensity. Through this exploration, I seek to give voice to the intricacies of lived experience—particularly the often unseen or unsaid aspects of human existence.

I work to create dances that feel visceral, raw, and unpredictable, that invite the audience to confront their own assumptions about power, vulnerability, and resilience. In each piece, I aim to offer a space for collective catharsis. The body, for me, is not just an instrument of action, but a battleground, a site of resistance and possibility—where the perplexities of being human can be both celebrated and critiqued.

In all my endeavors, I strive to remain open to the mystery of the body’s potential—to let the dance evolve, to allow moments of joy and folly to interrupt our expectations, and to create a space where both lightness and gravity can coexist. Through this practice, my hope is to offer my exclusive perspectives on the ways we live, perform, and move in the world in hopes of connecting to yours.