I am a harried mother of three-former aspiring
ballerina-dance architect constantly rubbing up against my own classification
and marginalization. My dances are rooted in autobiography exploring
and abstracting themes of divorce, motherhood, body-image issues, housewivery,
and adolescent crushes--the moments of comedy, grace, and desolation
that are the sum of my experience.
My choreographic work is realized in a rigorously physical and unique
movement vocabulary--the result of my intense and eclectic training
in ballet and a myriad of contemporary forms. Rhythmic, punctuated
phrasing
and rapid shifts in dynamic, weight, and flow are the foundations of
a non-lyrical musicality that I employ to reveal both internal and
external struggle. Exquisite classical line is established and
broken and the
ordered body deconstructs into poetic disarray. With dancers ricocheting
between the ephemeral and the earthbound, refined beauty and distortion,
comedy and tragedy, I engage juxtaposition to confound narrative expectations
and to emphasize the irony and humor of life as I see it. Thus, themes
of painful adolescence, domestic strife, and personal elation or devastation
are salted with wry comic relief, keeping the audience compelled yet
off balance.
I am a shameless expressionist, a post-modern animal, a dominatrix
of gut-busting physicality and spatial order, and a satirizer
of my frustrations
and loves. I am on a mission to discover who I am in the
present, remember things past, envision the future and then
make
dances that reflect
this chain of moments--these episodic internal film clips.
In doing so, I
hope the personal can be universally provocative and my
work will spark others’ self-investigation as well
as promote mutual conversation.
