I am a wholehearted dancer and dancemaker. Dance is a part of me as much as being an American, or being a woman has been part of my identity. I am a process & people oriented artist. I feel my collaborators are the most important aspects of my work. My work’s aesthetic shifts with the musings of the collaborators involved. I try to inhabit the vocabularies and fantasies of my collaborators, but feel abstractness is a theme of my movement. Though my work often exists within the abstract, I value the audience’s ability to access meaning from my work. I try to create human situations, identifiable images, ideas, or music to ground an audience in the conjurings of my pieces. I hope that my work never is a boring monochromatic, abstract and self-indulgent sentence, but that some part of the work, even if it’s a small section, can cause some stirring or sensation of engagement. 

My work often approaches difficult or sincere questions with lightheartedness and quirk.  I value exploration, I value play. I don’t think I have answers to earth’s greatest complexities and misunderstandings of humankind, but I have felt that moving through sweat, fatigue, and an idea with friends, and then sharing our ideas helps me process and appreciate the world we live in.