I am a dancer who choreographs, performs, educates, and brings people together, and each of these roles are critical to my artistic identity.  My art is informed by the variety of community spaces and populations with which I work, such as public schools, senior living facilities, community recreation centers, medical symposiums, and dance institutions.

My movement practice and choreography draws upon a variety of dance traditions including contemporary and modern dance, improvisation research, and contact improvisation. The performance work I create tells stories. I most often begin a new research/rehearsal process by inviting myself or collaborating dancers to generate text and share stories, drawing from our past experiences and vast collective knowledge base. These written texts and oral stories may be used to build movement or workshopped to be shared aloud as part of the live performance. Those who are cast into a rehearsal process with me are key collaborators in the creation of the work and are offered agency over their stories and how they are shared in text and movement. 

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I am most interested in how dance can be used for community building and facilitating deep relationships. I work to create spaces where dancers feel comfortable taking creative and physical risks, intimate stories may be shared, and play and laughter happen. I take pleasure in learning from peers who have differing perspectives and experiences from myself, and always look forward to the exchange of ideas and dialogue that will take place in the rehearsal and performance processes. For example, by intentionally pursuing intergenerational artistic relationships, I am able to learn/am inspired/ by the way differences in age affect relationships to our bodies, movement practice, life experiences, etc. 

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Right now, my dance research is centered around the topic of “home”. I am interested in questions surrounding what defines home, our literal home space, the metaphor of our bodies as a home, and my home within the broader Columbus community. This topic is continually present with me as I work within various community spaces, learning with those who inhabit them.