As a choreographer, I focus on personal experiences and how to share them with your audience. I encourage each dancer I work with to put their own experience into the group work being created. I believe that if you are not being authentically yourself in your work, then you are not being honest with yourself. This is something that I grappled with while finding my choreographic voice, but once I realized I needed to create work that was meaningful to me, I started to see things differently. I center some of my most recent work in the realm between full on dance choreography and performance art. I like to incorporate props, speaking, spoken audio with music clips.

I come from a background of theatre and dance, which influences how I create my choreography today. I am also influenced by the work of Raja Feather Kelly and Faye Driscoll for the way they break boundaries and encourage audience engagement. I like to question who has the right to view the dancer, how much are you exposing to the audience, and what are they getting from it. I believe that dance does not have to be comfortable, but should always spark emotion. I have studied the work of Anna Halprin and dance as healing and I believe dance can be used in that medium to express emotion. I have used dance as the embodiment of emotion and encourage others to do the same. I make choreographic work to showcase my experiences, whether they be personal or universal. The feeling of falling behind, being in a global pandemic, or feeling stuck are all universal experiences that are personal. I want to ask how we can make the universal, personal.