Artist Statement
My intention as a dance artist and choreographer is to generate humanizing choreographic works that cultivate empathy, introspection, intimacy, and resonance with a viewer. More specifically, works that unpack the more eccentric, neurotic, deranged, and complicated aspects of personhood and society.
I work to combine my own ideas with references to cultural memories, using retrospection to intentionally foster a sense of nostalgia in my work.
My work plays within the space between familiarity and distortion. I seek to highlight the extraordinary through manipulation of the mundane or ordinary features of life. My research harnesses a dancer’s ability to reimagine and expand the limits of the human body, searching for new levels of fragility, hypermobility, fluidity, and supple articulation of the spine. I am interested in the ethereal tenderness of these qualities and equally, the range of control, surrender, and absurdity that can be discovered through searching for these places.
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