Overview
My studio is not a fixed room. Some days it’s a corner of the shoreline with wind lifting the edges of my notebook or caressing the hairs on the back of my arm. Other days, it’s a stretch of pavement in the city, where footsteps and passing voices shape the score. It lives in motion. Here, bodies, environments, and technologies are in conversation: performances unfold in public sites, on stages, and through Augmented Reality; writing and film emerge alongside movement; and collaborations cross generations, disciplines, and geographies. My studio holds a commitment to care, empowerment, embodied knowledge, place-making, and the co-creation of being present. Here, making is also listening.
This is where I compose with bodies, environments, stories, and technologies. A dance might begin as a walk, turn into a line of text, and reappear months later in Augmented Reality. I work with people across generations, with Places that carry memory, and with collaborators who think in movement, images, and sound. I wonder at how movement is a record of and an invitation for existence. My studio holds my questions: how do we belong with generosity to a Place and to each other? How do we dance together?
Collaborations
I am dedicated to expanding the creative, intellectual and cultural horizons of dance through collaboration and sustained social engagement. In this my studio promotes the embodied knowledges and artistic intelligences dance offers, and the interdisciplinary value of dance as a method of understanding and expressing our lived experiences. I work with colleagues across a range of disciplines to create new innovative imaginings and art works. I also understand the environment, (the city, the shore, the mountain) to be a collaborator.
My practice moves with collaborators: finding wonderfully unexpected similarities, slippages, supports, and challenges, we make works that could only come from meeting in the generous philosophical terrain of collaboration. Recent and current collaborations include the architecture firm J.A Projects, MIT Nano Immergen Lab., DreaMR XR development, and The Royal Ballet School.