I have been immersed in the arts from a very young age, as my parents were professional dancers and dance educators. Moreover, I fell in love with many different genres of music and the visual arts early on; my grandfather was a jazz musician and print maker, and my grandmother a Vaudeville performer. The diversity of my early exposure to the performing arts has deeply developed my voice as an artist and teacher and has heightened my curiosity for history and learning. I am inspired by the pioneers who paved the way for the propagation of the way these art forms are seen today.
The fusion of forms and diversity of creative stimuli is what I thrive on. I have dedicated my education and professional career to looking at the arts from the broadest context possible.
I want to understand the future of the arts through the prism of the past.
When looking at a body moving, its physical forms and qualities reveal what the soul is experiencing. By looking purely to the body and breath, we can get a glimpse of what is happening emotionally and psychologically.
My choreographic work tends to explore themes related to identity, perception, body memory, and opposition. It strives to demonstrate the connection between emotion and form.
The use of movement is to give form to the imagination.
I am interested in communicating the human experience in my work, allowing performers and audience alike to explore their humanity. In addition to my dance experience, I have been following an interest in stage acting for the past ten years. Through these experiences, and a long-standing interest in mime, I have been developing ways to integrate movement and gesture that is more particular to acting into my choreographic works.
My intention as an evolving artist is to discover something new in something old — something old in something new. To find the familiar in the foreign — and the foreign in the familiar.
Art requires action and gets made so long as we act on our ideas. My continued mission as an artist is to simply make the work that I am inclined to make, trusting its unique place in the world.
Creativity is the antithesis of destructiveness.
To create is to celebrate life.