artist statement

I strive to share with others -- dancers and audiences -- the love and generosity and strength that it takes to be a woman who is heard. A woman who can be shaken, torn down, and also one who fights to build herself back up time and time again.

 I will never forget the moment when I was sitting in the audience of my little sisters’ dance recitalI, and I finally realized that the movement was already in me. Since that time, I have experienced a constant rebirthing of self, which speaks to the trajectory of my work;

zooming in on the act of conceiving something and watching it die, only to be reborn as another idea.

In this mode of working, I have learned that I move to translate femaleness into stories that desire to be felt. I listen for stories and histories that deserve to be heard and told; I recognize a sense of urgency that accompanies projecting the value of the female identity to the world. 

photo by bmbo creations