I create art to hold what lives beyond language, shape truth into power, and express ways of being that refuse to be reduced.
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I’m most drawn to contemporary dance that begins in the body’s lived experience where movement becomes a way of thinking, remembering and reimagining. My work often lives in intermedia form; movement braided with text, voice and image shaped through poetic expression rather than explanation. Through queer embodiment, I explore tension, subtlety, contradiction and liberation.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration in dancing through everyday life, in how my body responds before I can name it, in weight shifts, breath changes, and the impulse to move or pause. I notice it in how memory shows up in the middle of movement and how sensation and imagination overlap without clear boundaries. I find it in queer ways of relating, from intermedia work, and the tension between what is visible and what is lived inside the body.
What would you do with $25,000?I would use it to move to New York City after my MFA in Dance at The Ohio State University, a city I have always felt called to as an artist. It would support my relocation and the conditions needed to sustain my practice, and allow me to invest in studio time and the development of a new solo work.
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