About Me
I am a transdisciplinary dance researcher. The questions that animate my work reach across disparate fields of study including poetry, ecology, and philosophy, and the mode of my creative output encompasses choreography and writing. This dual approach to content—what I call “companion work”—arises from my belief in the value of discipline-specific rigor, methods of inquiry, and expressive outcome while it simultaneously champions the depth of understanding that arises from dialogue across disciplines.
The current that runs through all my creative pursuits is an embrace of improvisation as research method, performance medium, and state of being. To improvise is to question. Improvisation is wary of answers, definitions, conditionals, and dogmas. Improvisation outdoes itself, continually excavating the revelations made through its practice, thus resisting the calcification of ideas that can attach us to specific ways of thinking, relating, and being. To improvise is to relentlessly ask, “what else”; it is to commit oneself to an approach that adopts listening as a priority and embraces the unknown. Improvisation is a practice of conscious attention and purposeful navigation of the world.
I am currently a Lecturer of Dance and Writing Fellow at the University of Wyoming.
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