“Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be part of.”  ~Geri Weitzman

Musrara Israel International Festival Artist

Hampton Roads Cultural Alliance "Allie" Award

Virginia 50 for 50 "Exemplary Program and Pinnacle Event"

Bogliasco Foundation Fellow

Culture Hub NYC Micro-residency Artist

Henry Luce Scholar

Fulbright Scholar

US Embassy Research Grant

InLight Richmond People's Choice Award

Chicago Dance Bridge Artist

Links Hall Link-UP Residency Artist

Dance Omi International Residency Artist

Summer Stages Dance Choreographic Fellow

Lemelson Illinois-Technology Innovation Finalist

Kate Neal Kinley Fellow

Moe Family Dance Award

Art is a vehicle for preserving, honoring, and challenging humanness in a technology-driven world. I shift between paradigms: costume is sculpture, scenery performs, audience becomes actor, folding and refolding expectations and roles to build an art form that reflects the pulse of real-life spontaneity and behaviors.

 

I collect my choreographic ingredients across discipline: re-contextualizing and juxtaposing light, body, material, architecture and technology in a concentrated hyper-reality of emotion, flesh, and spectacle, a cross-breed of performance and installation. I weave fragments of technology, old and new, analog and digital, into my playground: the dialogue between body and its environment.

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Every creative project, every research question, collaboration, event, sculpture, costume- is a choreography. Sometimes this choreography involves live performers, sometimes objects, sometimes the audience. After all, what else are we doing everyday except arranging and juxtaposing people, place, technologies, attempting to understand and create relationships and give meaning? 

 

Life is choreography. A living sculpture.

Step, step. Do it.