Choreography

My choreographic works focus on creating ballets around the lesbian experience. These ballets are thus inherently estranged from the classical imposition of strict binary roles which are foundational to ballet. My works contemplate the performance of gender and lesbians’ relation to it. By giving spectators and performers opportunities to consider and embody a broader interpretation of gender through movement, esthetic, and a queer conceptualization of life, my choreography creates space to indulge in being physically and emotionally present while inviting a dyke-centric approach to intimacy. 

I am enamored with the ephemerality of live performance, especially in this era of reels and shorts that play on repeat forever. To counter this trend, I create works emphasizing transition and theme in movement. Still, I remain aware that my works can be viewed from anyone's perspective or angle. The unique experience shared between a spectator and a live performance is something I cherish and wish to cultivate, both on and off the proscenium. 

My choreography grounds itself in its musical elements. My movement is music-driven at its core. It is not possible to separate my choreography from the music for which it was created. 

There is minimal precedent for partnering work between two dancers on pointe. I often explore this technical challenge in my work. I wish to cultivate a better understanding of this technique of partnering and attempt to contextualize and utilize it in the framework of classical ballet technique. I am driven to convey and center intimacy through my choreography by using the exploration of this novel partnering technique as a tool. Using fluidity in transitional movements, a physical closeness of the dancer's centers of gravity, balanced roles where both dancers “lead” and “follow” interchangeably throughout the work, or simply intentionally creating dynamic movement for all ballet dancers and not just for the “partnered” dancer, all of these facets and concepts contribute to this representation of palpable closeness with an emphasis on sentuality, erotic passion,t and emotional closeness that I bring to my work. 

In my experience, the nature of live dance performance is inherently collaborative. Close collaboration with the dancers with whom I work is critical to me as a creative artist: my choreography is not realized into art until the dancers and performers also create it.