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I am always happy to find new people to talk with about collaborations in teaching, scholarship and creativity. I am a contemporary and ballet dancer, improviser and performer, as well as an ABT Certified teacher with additional training in the Vaganova syllabus and a Ph.D. in Dance and Women's Studies. I am also a visual artist, installation builder, choreographer and world-maker. I am available for commissions for creative, teaching and lecture work around dance technique and composition, embodied methodologies for critical praxis, critical and feminist pedagogy, and interdisciplinary research, among many other topics. I also love making new work both on my own and with collaborators.
Performance potentially generates a space for materialization, for transformation and for the dissolution of everyday boundaries. My work in dance as a mode of inquiry has deepened over time as it has crossed into the areas of spiritual practice and research modality. My work emerges from the connections between dance, feminist theory any performance studies.
My creative process incorporates ritual structuring and the creation of liminal sacred spaces that offer potential sites for transformation. The manifestations of this creative process are written, drawn, sculpted and danced artworks and spells invoked through an individual language arising from my living body, and the synthesis of somatic data and abstract metaphoric meaning making. Physical praxis combined with sustained interdisciplinary and cross-tradition research have led me to reorient the body as both a source of knowing and a primal presence. I arrive at meaning using poetic, imagistic and surrealist language, and concepts to re-present, reflect, articulate, and understand the sensory data that makes up lived experience. I combine the theoretical and practical modalities of dance composition, dance performance, ethnographic field work, and oral history with a feminist ideological commitment to making the personal both political and transparent.
My multi-modal interdisciplinary work recognizes and problematizes the binary created between body and mind, human and non-human, truth, and fiction. In facing the forces of environmental crisis, global inequity, among other issues, I turn away from the supposed objectivity of the social and hard sciences, instead reimaging the body as a vessel of magic potential with which to heal the violent trauma of history. Aware of my power to conjure, to bring to be something that does not yet exist as physically manifest, my work channels and highlights the power and wisdom of correspondent, metaphoric knowing and the deep intelligence of the body.
