artist statement

My work explores the tensions between space, place, and the self. As a choreographer, writer, and curator, I investigate the relationship between the body and its surrounding context, both physical and immaterial and constantly shifting in relation to one another. This work exists within the mediums of dance, performance and social practice, creating live and filmed pieces for site-specific locations as well as intimate and theatrical spaces.

I also use my work as a vessel to reimagine Staten Island through the immediacy and intimacy of the body. This grows out of my belief in the ephemeral and sensuous potential of the landscape to connect myself in body, affect, and memory to the island where I was born. Using choreography, scores, and archival methods, I move through sites that contain specters of communities, histories, and ecologies, weaving together—and at times disrupting—layers of cultural accumulation. Informing this practice are concepts of love, grief, desire, and labor—how do they manifest in the body and the environment, in solo and group forms? I am interested in how these ideas converge, and the politics and aesthetics that shape them.