I dance as an act of cellular, spiritual, and artistic communication; de-influencing my body from the systems and stories of control that have separated her from nature. Transforming all experience into healing material.

I view the body as a landscape, wherein the beauty and trauma of the anthropocene is being mirrored. A self-regulating ecosystem composed of self and non-self elements. A spinning ball on a floating river. The only truth is change.

The dances I make are much more like poems than dramas. They are the witnessing of something vital as it emerges within the present moment; a Sifting process. They are embodied acts of resilience. In a way, dance is the ontology (way of being) and epistemology (way of knowing) through which I research life.

Performance studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that utilizes performance as a tool to study the world. Performance studies scholars research not only the artistic, but the cultural performances we take part in each day, albeit consciously or unconsciously. Much of our waking life is the playing out of a participatory myth, a cultural drama. What goes on behind the proscenium of the mask, in the back of our minds and within our bodies, remains underwater. The waving is what the water is doing, but it is not the water.

I choose to work in two distinct capacities as an artist. I have a personal experimental practice and a socially engaged practice.

In my personal practice, I work through the mediums of dance and cinema. The medium of film “is not necessarily a communal experience; it can also be the ultimate state of detachment, solitude, and a profoundly personal experience. We are often lonely and alone when we encounter cinema and watch films, yet we persevere through this solitude” (Rouzbeh Rashidi).

In my socially engaged work, I foster integrative embodied resilience for trauma through movement education and community ritual & performance work. My personal experimental practice and research is what supports my capacity to work publically and socially in this way which I have been doing in one form or another since 2004.

And last but not least, my artwork is a reflection of my experience of being a high functioning woman on the autism spectrum, which I view as a neurological and life-force expression shaped by sensitivity. Because I was born with sensory processing differences and the social-emotional challenges that accompany that, I have lived my life in search of sensory poetics. This experience has inevitably shaped my life path and world view and guides my inquiries as a creator.