about

I’m interested in edges. Edges as a construct for possibility. My choreography addresses this curiosity by working with deviation.. Framing the mundane as extraordinary – prioritizing a repetitive movement vocabulary of locomotor and everyday gesture to push the limits of the body. Elongating stillness to challenge attention and expectation. Redefining space and relationship to the witness by shifting where the work happens–amongst the audience or a far corner of the room. Using set and improvised performance scores to devise scenarios for potential failure. But what exceeds these strategies is also what I’m after – the strength and grace that gets stoked when being with discomfort, the honesty and vulnerability that arises when navigating the unplanned moments, the alternative temporality that gets built and makes space to examine how we see ourselves.

As a way into discovery, I impose conditions of restriction and the insistence to work within and through limitation. This insistence brings up questions around normativity and control, how it operates (exists) inside our systems and what are the ways to criticise and interrupt the status quo. In pursuit of these questions, I am committed to examining the relationships between art, power, perception and desire. 

My performances embrace effort and evoke a sisyphean pathos to distill and reflect upon the human experience. In contemplation of things futile and difficult, I create an environment where persistence becomes a conduit for transformation. Insistently precise, my dances grapple with inevitable unraveling.