About Me:

I'm a NYC-based freelance dance artist from Mamaroneck, NY. My artistic practice is rooted in improvisation as both a methodology and philosophy, taking an anatomical approach that treats the body as the primary site of exploration and using honesty, spontaneity, and care as essential lenses for engaging with dance. I have the great priviledge of facilitating Emergent Improvisation, a practice crafted by Troy Ogilvie and Omar Zubair, held regularly at Gibney Dance Center and Peridance Center. As a performer, I have am very honored to have collaborated with Lea Ved (b12), Yang Sun & Poets, TAQ Dance (Sasha Marlan-Librett), Sumayyah Smith, Louise Coleman, Chisato Fuji, Audrey Chou, Processions Performance Lab (Natalia Fernandez), Emergent Improvisation, and others. I graduated with a B.A. in Information Science from Cornell University.

About My Work:

My movement works connect individual and collective lineages, while allowing space for erosion and renewal. Making work within an oppressed world and an obsessed body, I see the expressive body as an act of both survival and resistance.

Improvisation functions as both a methodology and a philosophical framework. I ask what is the smallest container I can define that still allows improvisation to unfold? Within this curiosity, I investigate the role of agency inside defined and constrained systems. My movement research focuses on four areas: an anatomical approach grounded in the logic of the skeleton; the internal tempo of the human body; the multiplicity of texture as the simultaneous embodiment of contrasting states; and dance as a healing practiced, centered in honesty and care.

The worlds I create are tender, haunting, and reminiscent, with a movement language that is fluid, existing between formal technique and quotidian gesture. Unison functions as a ritual practice, gathering performers into a shared experience— willingly or unwillingly, consciously or unconsciously. Through duration, intrigue, and boredom, I seek to reveal the unobtrusive beauty of being human: to feel lost or in love, to experience sadness and wonder, to encounter betrayal, and to persist in the desire to survive.