movement
my philosophy
I explore the idea of trying on movement like a pair of jeans. With each body performing my movement, I want to see how it shapes their muscles and bones versus the dancer next to them. Illuminating each of our unique anatomy, our habitual style, our individuality, our human make up. I am so interested in allowing everything we carry in our magnificent bodies to exist in our movement, to celebrate all that we are.
It has been my practice to explore creating movement that first and foremost feels GOOD. Feels good in the body to move through for each specific body performing it and feels good to watch and be immersed in as a viewer. And if it doesn’t, making that an intentional choice.
my background
I started training in dance at the age of 2. It became my first love, and I trained for the following 17 years of my education in practically every genre from hip hop to classical ballet to salsa. The studio became home as clichè as it sounds, from New Jersey Ballet to Summer intensives with the Rockettes, to local studios like Gotta Dance.
In high school, I was accepted into an honors dance program at a Vocational School where I trained daily in classical ballet, jazz, and modern, as well as a strong focus on choreography and dance history. But the unfortunate, all too common tragedy: I got injured with an injury that seemed to be a career ending one. I looked to art and found other passions in acting and film.
In my undergrad as an acting major (that still took dance classes, choreographed theses and performed in multiple movement shows- lol talk about not paying attention to signs), I went to London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) where I met some professors who were also movement directors and learned about this other world where acting, movement, and directing intermingled to make one big, beautiful mess of an artistic career. The lightbulb went off and post grad I have already choreographed multiple pieces and am now working with The 98 Art Collective as their resident movement director developing new movement works for all of 2021.