To me, performance lies at the intersection of the public
and the personal. In the most public of spaces, in performance, dance exposes
the personal - the human body - in both its sensuality and its ordinariness.
Through a process of working with familiar images and sources - whether a
particular gesture, bits of conversation, phrases of words, or everyday
artifacts - I suggest possible narratives and invite audiences into poetic,
imaginary landscapes. Marked by weighted, whole body action; distinctive,
gestural vocabulary; and a mixture of visual elements, my choreography inscribes
space to reveal its dancer-characters.
My process circulates between language and movement. Although less direct and more abstract than verbal language, I find dance can create its own meaning through the relationship between dancers, the relationship between the movements, the relationship between the viewer and the performer, the dancer and the space, the dancer and gravity. While I often use a lot of conceptual ideas initially in my process, I am also interested in the formal - the architecture of the body and its anatomy - as well as an idisyncractic and subtle, but fully physical, movement vocabulary. I use an open process utilizing improvisation, in which a work takes on a life of its own and allows disparate elements to meld and form their own logic.
I frequently find myself collborating with artists working in other media to
realize the images, narratives and spaces necessary to my choreography. By
layering and creating a cross section of image, sound, movement and
relationships, I hope to access diverse audiences. By inviting viewers into my
process, and by performing my work in as open and genuine a way I can, I hope to
continue to engage and develop new audiences.
