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Artist Statement
I am a New York-based movement artist interested in a multimodal, non-hierarchical performance practice. Leading with curiosity, I hope to expand understanding through movement. I have developed an intense physical practice and a critical intellectual practice that informs the way I make work. Choreography is not about presentation, but process. I aspire to push the boundaries of what we consider performance. I seek to ask complex questions, not with hopes of proposing a single answer, but a series of possibilities.
Accreditation
BFA, Dance Choreography - Marymount Manhattan College
BA, Social Entrepreneurship - Marymount Manhattan College
My choreographic research has theoretically and philosophically approached various topics ranging from phenomenological embodiment to corporeal feminist conceptions. In studying multiplicity and its intersections with concepts of gender and phenomenology I must acknowledge my own positionality. While my identity as a white cis-gendered woman positions my artistic perspective, I am curious how my research can continue to question boundaries associated with gender and sexuality and their associated expectations and binaries. In continuing my education, I want to work against binaries in favor of concepts of multiplicity. I want to question intensely, how identities are formed, and the rippling effects these constructions have on human behavior. I believe a phenomenological approach to work regarding gender and how it is performed connects the surrounding environment to the socially constructed binaries of gender. A sensation-based modality, like phenomenology, centers the body in its research. I believe the body, as a vessel that houses multiplicity, can deconstruct binaries.