Artist Statement

For me, dance making is puberty; it is the multiple puberties of my transness, the always evolving, the journeying, the meaning-making, the theorizing, the sticky maturation. Dance has been the central axis of my life, mobilizing my personal voice to communicate and research the stories and experiences of my lived reality and those in the room with me. My work spans choreography, curation, sound design, production and stage management, and technical dramaturgy.

My practice takes root in a commitment to my queer community, our collective histories and futures. My work centers identity, intimacy, and performativity as informed by my lived queer/trans experience, collaborative creative processes, and feminist, queer, and trans theory. In my work, I create moments designed to be intruded on, exhibitionist vulnerability. The undressing, the slowest of slow dances, the pleading for love, the song in your head that just can’t help but slip out, the bathroom conversations on a night out, and the (sometimes accidental) glimpses of truth. I flirt with imagination as the deepest form of honesty.

Through conversation, storytelling, improvisational scores, live text manipulation, techno music, and duration practices of clubbing, queening, and cruising, dance making provides a structure to develop and build a deep connection and understanding with myself and the people I collaborate with. In my work, I create worlds of trans possibilities. My practice is gender affirming care.

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