about

My practice is rooted in dance, video, zine, and collaging. My work uses installation and performance to investigate questions about identity, perception and power. How do we come to know ourselves? How do we propose the power of the collective over the supremacy of the individual?

This manifests as performances in theaters, public dance interruptions that challenge the confines of social etiquette, and installations that invite the public to activate the work through participatory scores. I’m influenced by political scientist Jane Bennet who theorizes that objects are vibrant knowledge systems that can teach and exchange with the viewer.

My Ashkenazi roots and experiences growing up in Chicago with my grandmother, who passed down our culture through her traditions and oral history, inform the materials and objects I work with and center my work in the deeply personal and transportive space of memory and reflection. I build environments that engage the associative identities I embody as a Jewish woman, embrace the relationship of inanimate and animate together and create a spectacle between body and object to reveal the multitudes of self.

I’ve always been interested in the texture and sensorial experience of touching things. I often use sensation as a way to make sense of myself and the world. The sensation of something as an excuse to explore emotion —an unspoken permission to feel a certain way without having to figure out where the feeling came from or why it’s there because the answer is in the contact with the body. This sensibility has deeply informed my role as a maker.

My work, whether it takes the form of a dance, installation, video, or collective action is always rooted in a sensorial transmission— creating textures that can be felt through touch, sound, visual design, or embodied movement. I work inside various modalities to provide entry points for people with different backgrounds, resources, and abilities to access my work.