movement & beyond
“Her honesty and willingness to be vulnerable, with her gestural and creature-like movements, sets her apart from other emerging artists.
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Classes
Witch Body
Enter a realm of sensory cues, invitations for embodying one’s deeper nature, summoning potency, and exalting the bodily experience. This space can be lush, subtle, grounding, and presence-full. We are snails. We feel the glimmer of the stars. We feel the winds. Here we develop the craft of listening, inviting the intelligence of the body. Let’s be cheeky and also serious. Here you are a person first, here you move even in stillness, here you get to reckon with your body’s range of expression. Here we attune to self, shift our understanding of our potency, and play with the reverie of existence. Here our softening is our power. Here we savor.
This is an intuitively guided movement experience featuring suggested sensation cues, poetic language, gestures, and group connection. Facilitation is based on the moment, the movement of the group energy, what wishes to be summoned, and methods of movement that are akin to physical theater meets mysticism.
Perfect for those wishing to move in primordial and decadent ways, amplify sensation from simple forms, feel our interconnectedness, and have serious fun
Past Classes:
Sensitive Strength
Wild Mindful
Conscious Partnering / Contact Improv
Contemporary / Choreo
Deviant Ballet: TBA
Soft Power
My favorite teaching style is receptive. Improvisation is a deep bone in my body. My gift is spontaneity and bringing a group of individuals into a shared, yet individuated experience. Although I can prepare and guide pre-decided course material . . . I am perpetually enamored by the current moment and what arises from listening, moving, and releasing agendas.
Sometimes this approach communicates to people a lack of standard or seriousness of practice when what it really creates is a platform for sophistication, resiliency, and wildly gorgeous presence. There is a deeper structure beneath surprise, after all.
I might add that my range and contradictions unlock the prismatic nature of simplicity and also invite the complexities of life. Choreography and unlocking these principles of nature within projects and performers is incredibly life affirming and connection building.
Who We AreI’m here for the subtle, lush, and imaginative experience of the body.
choreographer, movement director, facilitator, movement artist, energy practitioner, muse, oracle, and poet.
My art practice is a portal of body and spiritual sensitivity. I believe in cultivating a depth of relationship that rebels against objectification.
My lens is one of relationship, poetic transmission, ceremony, and witch craft . . . mixed with an appreciation for humor and bewilderment. Mysticism and multi-dimensional perception now seems unavoidable after years of becoming intimate with performance, injury, nature, and the wisdom of the body.
I value deep listening, improvisational and intuitive methods of creative direction, and a welcoming in of the banished: eros, grief, whimsy.
I will not hide that I am someone that sees, that I am someone willing to work with the unknown and forgotten parts of our individual and collective stories. That I am someone daring to enter into choreographic space to recalibrate to newer energetics of intimacy and release histories of painful relating . . . while playing with absurdity, sincerity, and joy.
Movement and Style beyond objectification.
I resonate a lot with snails, slugs, moss, gorgeous fabrics, and prismatic consciousness. The whales feel like kin and I remember the fish as my older ancestors. I’m most likely dripping in the rain right now, deep in a book, improvising new lyrics, or running innovative energetic protocols through my body.
My work requires and unleashes a depth of embodiment that goes beyond steps or choreography. In a way, it is an equalizer for seasoned professionals and movers that don’t identify as dancers. It is of great importance to me to prioritize tending to the holistic nature of the being within my collaborators, I shed the old paradigm of placing dissociative demand on dancers, and I reveal a higher resolution of being and wholeness in presence. For me, the most vital virtuosity is from subtlety and presence. While trained in ballet, contemporary, improvisation, partnering, and rigorous concert dance styles, I also have developed a unique devotion to an intimate, absurd, and sensual interplay of style that transcends genre. I am not opposed to traditional standards of virtuosity so much as I am here to call in a depth of experience that recognizes performance as ceremony and performance as alchemical process.
It isn’t all so serious. A lot of it is truly fun.
I do my best to integrate the reality of people into my work before honoring the creative impulse that wishes to be in dialogue with subtle style. Call this tenderness, fierceness, sensitivity, provocation.
Classes
Sensitive Strength / Witch Body / Wild Mindful / Conscious Partnering / Deviant Ballet
Movement Direction
film / music videos / staged performance : for theater, musicians, dancers.
hEDS
An important perspective I bring to creation is my lived experience with hyper mobility, health complexity, and my initiations within the wounded healer path. There is an importance of weaving limitation and possibility. There is poetry and stability and a recognition of the material at hand.
My most recent work emerged as a process of reconnecting with my methodology that combines my esoteric energy practice and performance style. The work centered the theme of the cosmic orphan while holding the emergent occurrences within the studio.
Earthly. Poetic. Intimate.
I’m known for not shying away from conversations around and visibility of mental health, self worth, trauma, eroticism, and mysticism within dance culture.
My work has had to center grief and celebration as a process of life and right relation.
This is the product of listening along with a hearted desire to beautifully create, discover, and engage the body in deeply satisfying ways in communal and personal contexts.
Sharing our stories and creating new cultures transforms our lives for the better, as artists and beings of earth. It is wildly necessary, urgent, and awe-inspiring.