Vulnerability. Empathy. Community.

MY ARTIST STATEMENT

One of my greatest passions in life is to choreograph, create, and story-tell. My empathetic personality drives an urge to connect and share with others, furthermore, encouraging me to utilize art in bringing people together. I am a believer that dance has an ability to express emotion in a unique way. Dance has created this power to physicalize ideas, theories, concepts, and stories in my life that fulfills a void for me to create impact amongst a small or large crowd. This impact along with my deep-rooted connection with music influences my sought purpose in the world to create change in a new and positive light. Often I find myself embodying refined pieces of music through my dancing; lyrics, instrumentation, silence, and mood. I pride myself in having the ability to show, to even deaf viewers, the music through my movement articulation. The change I strive to create through dance surrounds ideas of enlightening one’s vulnerability and acceptance of self. Various types and pieces of music inspire me to create movement and stories that not only highlight the music, but emphasize the underlying story, mood, or tone the music has already established. I emphasize musician’s rhythmic and melodic choices, paired with versatile movement that is unique to me. Unlike other choreographers and artists, I use music as a medium to further draw out emotion and heart-felt ideas that can be expressed through art. I do this through the choreographic process, diving into the emotional connection said dancers have to the piece, the story arc, and development of the movement vocabulary. I recognize my abilities to make people feel and think differently through the stories I tell and it fulfills my being knowing I have opened one’s eyes to a new perspective. Dance can easily be overlooked by its technical poise, however, with an approach like mine, the beauty in the raw artistic expression can be seen and heard.