I am a dance and movement artist, teacher, and facilitator who connects with myself, my community, and my world through the language of the body. My tools are the body in relationship to sound, space, time, environment, memory, and other human and non-human beings. I don’t limit myself to dance or choreography and enjoy exploring and expressing in visual arts, written and spoken word, music, zine-making, and anything you are willing to teach me.

I move my body to oxygenate it. To soften my sternum and shift from my pelvis, re-pattern old neural pathways and build new ones. I dance because verbal processing is overrated, because it helps me sleep better at night, and because it returns me to myself. I make creative work to scratch the itch and work through whatever I can’t seem to let go of.

My creative process is research-based and collaborative. I investigate questions through a combination of improvisation, writing, conversations, and academic research and then begin the work of translation to the languages of body and metaphor. Collaborators, dancers, students, friends, family, ancestors, past teachers, students, and audience members are all co-creators in the experience.   

What keeps me going is the belief that by moving and making, we carve out spaces where we become a little more human, a little more open, and a little more compassionate towards each other.