dance

“Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like.

Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming.

So I think beauty, in that sense, is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth

and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life.”

- John O’Donohue

I am a movement artist, performer, and dance maker. My movement nurtures creative impulse and often explores the showcased and hidden everyday human interactions. I am interested in investigating the loss of relationship with nature, ourselves, and each other we are currently experiencing in our society. While acknowledging it as a privilege, I’m drawn to the notion that spending mindful time alone and with others in nature can allow us to reclaim a deeper sense of connection and help to foster cultural exchange. I seek to examine how trauma can shape our lives and how movement helps spark transformation and healing in movement artists and viewers. I work often with improvisation generated from text, poetry and prose, to question our making of the world through language and body memory. My work invites the viewer to move into a space of speculation, researching our human desires for beauty, poetics, validation, and connection.

+ collaborative company member of staibdance in Atlanta, GA since 2013