As a young performer, I was drawn to American modern dance; what I discovered then through daily movement practice, I articulate today as a deep commitment to its lineage, its radical potential, and its capacity to ask the enduring questions of what bodies can do, how, and with whom. I became especially invested in the work of Paul Taylor, training as a work-study scholarship student as well as performing as a founding member of the Paul Taylor Teen Ensemble and serving as assistant to former Taylor School director Raegan Wood. My connection to Taylor style continues to develop through ongoing guidance from Rachel Berman and Patrick Corbin.

My professional career has taken me between New York and Los Angeles, performing with companies such as DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion, The Assembly, and my own company, x2 Dance Collective, co-founded with Brynn Bodair. With x2 (“times two”), we created original works in film, installation, taught workshops, and built spaces for dancers of diverse training backgrounds to move together. As a freelance artist, I’ve performed at venues including The Getty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA.

As an undergraduate student at Sarah Lawrence College, my practice expanded to include dance history, composition, improvisation, and somatic anatomy under the mentorship of Peggy Gould and John Jasperse. I also earned an MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach, where I focused on choreography and pedagogy. During graduate study, I became increasingly interested in screendance, nontraditional performance venues, and the ways performance can be opened to recreational dancers as well as professionals. For more than a decade, I have taught modern, ballet, contemporary floorwork, improvisation, and partnering to students of all ages at four-year universities, community colleges, high schools, and private studios.