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Artistic Direction
As a choreographer, my aim is to make dances that matter - beyond technical virtuosity (not at the exclusion) and spectacle, that move people emotionally or spiritually, that change peoples' lives. I am particularly interested in inter-disciplinary collaborations, using text, social commentary, and dance for the camera and movement invention.

My philosophy is that dance training and performance is about being in present time, being in the "now". Life is dynamic and we create the new world on the bones of the old. I use dance techniques, visualizations, metaphysical exercises, and breathing techniques for dancers to find themselves and their own expressive voice; and to place themselves in the center of their creativity. Dance is ultimately about being present: the dancer, having a free body, becomes a space of controlled energy and transformations. The dancer's awareness of the relationship between form and expression is what distinguishes dance as art from dance as an ordinary event.

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? -Among School Children, William Butler Yeats