Artist Statement

I create work that exists in the in between, between geographies, cultures, and identities. As a performer, choreographer, and researcher, I explore how the body adapts to shifting environments, negotiating isolation and hybridity in real time. My movement practice is grounded in autoethnography, using personal and collective histories to interrogate the physical and visible impacts of being a lone body within a majority. Through polyattentiveness, the ability to hold multiple physical, conceptual, and emotional states simultaneously, I craft choreographic structures that reflect the necessity of adaptation in an ever shifting sociopolitical landscape.

My practice is a continuous negotiation between bodily intuition and external forces where movement functions as survival, resistance, and self definition. I engage in process driven collaborations that prioritize experimentation and socially informed dance making. My choreographic research seeks to reveal the tensions between memory and reinvention, displacement and belonging, tradition and evolution. I am drawn to movement that does not settle but instead questions, lingers, and reshapes itself in response to its surroundings.

I move to uncover, to adapt, and to create space for new possibilities. My work is an ongoing process of listening, of honoring what has been, challenging what is, and imagining what could be.