artist statement

updated 2026

As an artist and as a person (which are not really ever separate), I am interested in living a life that is fully alive with the presence of what is. I make work that reflects this. I make work that is alive and verdantly spilling over and into the realms of my inner-most landscapes as I invite them out of me through movement, conversation, writing, and collaboration with others interested in doing the same. The work I make creates worlds and holds them in containers where audiences and performers are immersed in the atmosphere there (here).

I am invested – deeply – in meeting my self – deeply – and coming into direct contact with all that is there. How? I pause when I feel something stir inside, I greet it kindly, I welcome it forth (in movement, in conversation, in writing, in collaboration). I follow my impulses, desires, and repulsions. I dance as much as possible. I feel the sun on my skin if I can, and if not, the rain, the wind, every day. 

I believe in opening myself over and over again to the fullness of life, with all of its dark corners, lingering shadows, and possibilities of being hurt. I want to be fully alive while I’m here. I want to feel my sweat drip onto the dance floor and the waterfall mist on my face and the stare of a lover I’m daring to trust. I want to name the thing that hurt me to the friend I am committed to keeping around. I want to say sorry when I need to. I want to be in the muck and in my body, fully. I want to be in community as my whole self and I want you to be there with me. 

I dance and make dances about all of this and with all of this.