Artist Statement

Dance is a lens through which I reflect, refract, and absorb. I rewire the body to confuse the brain until I relocate myself on the map; I am woman, casual athlete, disaster, and polka-dot. I am all of these things and more amidst a complex web of contradictory geographies. Lately, I find myself navigating by choreographing attention towards that which always seems to be present; awkwardness. Awkwardness and all its bodily, spatial, and durational manifestations. Grounded in live performance, my research employs awkwardness to destabilize my own trainings in Western concert dance forms. By actively disallowing certain coded pleasures of conventional theater practices, my work often displays its own making as it teeters between the profound and mundane, if only to craft a breath that might be missing between us. All that to say, I have questions. I have questions that I don’t even know that I have yet, and I know I’m not alone. I want to ask questions together, and maybe making art is the best way to do so. I want to make art that participates at intersections. I want to make art that is bigger than itself.