Who I Am, How I Move

I am a dance artist, educator, and researcher working through the body to question the logics of isolation, productivity, and perfectionism. My choreographic and pedagogical practices center improvisation, object play, and experimentation as ways of knowing—embodied methods that resist the pressures of constant output and instead invite collective presence, critical joy, and emotional intelligence.

Over the last decade, I’ve performed and collaborated in a range of professional, community, and experimental contexts. I’ve been honored to perform as a guest with Joel Hall Dancers, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and Wonderbound, and to work as a collaborating artist with Control Group Productions, HOLDTIGHT, and others. I offer these experiences not as a résumé, but as a way of honoring the communities of artists who have shaped my understanding of dance as a relational and living practice.

Academically, I hold an MA in Social and Cultural Foundations in Education from DePaul University, where my research focused on ritual, embodiment, and affect theory. I begin a PhD in Fall 2025, deepening this work at the intersection of dance, pedagogy, and cultural theory. I am especially interested in ecokinetic phenomenology and in how dance offers a counter-epistemology to the rational individualism of the modern Western world. I see myself as part of a lineage of dancemakers who have used movement not just to entertain, but to question, remember, and reimagine.

Whether in the studio, the classroom, or the theater, I aim to cultivate spaces where people feel seen, challenged, and moved. My hope is that through emotionally-attuned processes, we build work that sparks wonder—both in those who witness it and those who live it.