Artist Statement

My commitment to dance is an expansive practice that includes performance, collaboration, and memory-keeping. As an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, sound-maker, performer, organizer, poet, and teacher, I have been investigating how the body is able to use memory, sensation, and imagination as ways to enter embodied practices to articulate story, ancestry, and personal truth.

Over the past ten years, the body of my work has been inspired by my time learning. I name my mother and my aunties, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrision and magic realism, Octavia Butler, Eartha Kitt, Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Nia Love, Rob Lowe, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Marlies Yearby, Lovie Olivia, Li Harris, Tara Aisha Willis, Robin Coste Lewis, Saidiya Hartman, and Staycee Pearl as direct influences to my understanding that I am a vessel for ancestry and spirit to speak through. 

I continue to make with the intention to preserve and expand lineages of learning by naming, practicing, and integrating a multitude of lessons and people. My embodied practice is rooted in a collage of traditions, practices, and methodologies that include dance, somatics, performance, preservation, sound composition, garment design, and cooking.