I am a dancer trained in ballet (Royal Academy of Dance) and modern dance (Limón, Graham, and Horton techniques). I have performed at Fleck Dance Theater (Toronto); Highways Performance Space, LA Dance Project, Pieter Performance Space, and UCLA’s Glorya Kaufman Hall (Los Angeles); and Movement Research at the Judson Church (New York).
Recent Projects:
How to Continue (Together)? (2021)
In this project, choreographer Emily Barasch (Los Angeles) offers an immersive performance experience, in which three performers utilize the in-between space of the Zoom meeting to co-create a new world together. Engaging with theorist and activist Adrienne Maree Brown’s concept of “emergent strategy” (2017), Barasch stages an experiment in creating an “emergent” score within and against the literal and physical distance that the Zoom space requires.
The Twelve Brothers (2020).
Choreographed by Ghislain Grellier (Los Angeles), The Twelve Brothers offers a unique and experimental approach to the standard ballet. Adapting the narrative of The Brothers Grimm’s Twelve Brothers fairytale, Grellier’s dance combines the structure of narrative ballet with new media, specifically animation and video projection.
Pliable Formats: Structural Elasticity as Resilience in Theatrical Dance Space (2020)
In this workshop installation co-facilitated with choreographer Letty Bassart, we begin with the question, “is resilience resilient?” Coming into this inquiry, we invite participants to critically address modes of resilience that set out to be elastic yet become synonymous with endurance, whereby the subject must “successfully” endure to be understood as resilient. We focus specifically on the relationship between performer and spectator in the theatrical dance context, in which the relationship between these two bodies is often thought of in terms of an imposing spectatorial gaze that the performer must endure. How might this relationship be considered “resilient” instead, specifically when resilience is conceived of as elasticity, as opposed to endurance?
*workshop indefinitely postponed due to COVID19 Pandemic
Constellation (2019)
Choreographer Ghislain Grellier’s Constellation represents its titular subject literally: the three performers, accompanied by the elements of an intricate stage design, become individual stars that, within a moment, coalesce as a constellation. Through precise, near-mechanical movement and complex patterning, Constellation evokes the imperceptible connections within the night sky.