
Artist Statement
As a teaching artist I strive to create a full body experience for the dancer. Firstly, it is important to me that students are able to be fully engaged and accomplish a full range of motion. Secondly, it is important that there is a safe environment for dancers physically to prevent injury. As a teaching artist, I apply Laban analysis to students as it gives more context to how movement can be seen and spoken about. I combine this with risk taking, and uncomfortableness into my teaching and choreography. As a choreographer my work is experimental and transformative. Most movements consist of curves and releasing body weight. My goal is to achieve a reaction to my choreography and have the audience question what they are viewing. Most of my work intertwines eerie and takes on a feeling of unsettled and uncomfortableness, and my collaborators execute this with full body motion, expansive use of space, and different dynamics either on stage or in film.