“Performance is about making people think, feel, contemplate, and embrace “being.”

I am an American born interdisciplinary artist living in Tucson Arizona, who has lived in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Venezuela. I received my education from the North Carolina School of the Arts for high school, received a BFA from Purchase College in 2004, a Post Graduate Certificate in Choreography from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2014, and an MFA from the University Washington in 2020. In 2016, I studied sculpture and body casting at the Canossa Scuola di Scultura in Reggio Emilia.

As a professional dancer, I was a  full-time company member with Shen Wei Dance Arts since 2008 and recently joined the company for the 25th Anniversary in China for seven weeks. I have performed works of Kazuko HIrabayashi, Sidra Bell, Noemie LaFrance, Tania Perez-Salas, Stefan Dreher, Hubert Lepka, Yang Jiang, Franca Ferarri, Susan Marshall, Brian Brooks, and Daniel Charon.   In Theater, I have performed works of Steve Cooke of Stella Adler Acting Studio, Jenny Koons, and acted in a Student Academy Award winning film by John Mattuizzi. I performed a durational work by Dorian Silec Petek which was curated by Robert Wilson. I have collaborated in interdisciplinary projects with artists such as Jacopo Foggini(designer), Yuval Avital(composer), Piergiorgio Casotti (photographer), Mario Vighi (writer), Luciano Bosi (musician), Fabrizio Orsi (fashion photographer), Chanhee Choi (digital video and textile artist), Abbey Blackwell (musician), and Abigail Jara (VR and video artist).

As an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, I have been working as an improvisational performance artist in exploring concepts such as psychological states of being, feminism, and environmental topics. A signature of my aesthetic as an artist is the way in which I use the process of making body casts as tangible objects that represent both process and product in performance. The body casting incorporates an educational communal experience as well as a self-reflective one. My work has been shown in the US at Duo Emergence Gallery (Manhattan), Dumbo Dance Festival (Brooklyn), The Widow Jane Mine (Rosendale NY), Springboard Danse (Montrea)l, Republic Theater in (Salzburg), Centro Cultural de La Florida Santiago (Chile), Spazio Gerra, Indigo Festival, Rimini Live Festival, Fotografia Europea Festival, Teatro San Prospero, CSAC Parma Museum, and Mutty Gallery in (Italy), Shoonya Center for Somatic Arts, 1Shanthiroad Studio Gallery in (India), Meany Studio Theater, Oxbow Gallery, the ASUW Shell house, Design in Public AIA Festival in (Seattle), Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Inferno Festival Berkeley, Marin Center for Performing Arts, and SAFEhouse Arts (San Francisco), Arts for Action (Australia), Stevie Eller Dance Theater (Tucson), and Circulo Pacenza Badajoz (Spain).

My scholarly research has been presented in Atiner the 15th International Conference for Visual and Performing Arts in Athens Greece 2023, Badajoz Spain from 2023-2025, Steinfeld Gallery Tucson in 2024, and Seattle Washington in 2025. I have been working on a concept I call “Energetic Presence of the Moving Body Left in Space” that’s primary focus is about bringing awareness to the energetic presence that human beings possess. In public settings (Museums, Galleries, Yoga Studios, Plazas) and traditional and non-traditional performance spaces (the dance studio, theaters, black box, Site-Specific Locations) I use an interdisciplinary practice that combines elements of performance art, somatic experience, and social engagement to explore and manifest energetic dynamics of human communities and cultures. Two distinct parts of my research are a modern dance technique that incorporates floor work, release, Tai Chi, and sequential movement processes as well as public workshops that stimulate the group’s proprioceptive and energetic awareness. In facilitating these immersive experiments, I am relating to ephemeral dimensions of community dynamics through Neuroscience, Metaphysics, Kinesiology, and Eastern Movement Practices.

I have taught at various institutions such as Fondazione Della Danza Aterballetto RE, Balletto Toscano, Nuovo Balletto Classico RE, C.I.M.D. Milano, Shoonya Center for Somatic Arts India, Bangalore School of Performing Arts, Centro Cultural del la Florida Santiago Chile, Shen Wei Dance Arts Intensive NY, University of California at Santa Barbara, Velocity Center and the University of Washington Seattle, Alonzo Kings Lines Ballet BFA and Professional Training Programs in San Francisco, Ana Baigorri Danza Spain, and Rincon Ballet and University of Arizona Tucson.