Before I knew who I was, I knew how to perform. I belted backyard cabarets on my homemade wooden stage.
I created elaborate dances before jumping into the pool. I would rehearse my new one-liners for my parents’ house guests.
I grew up in constant change; a yearly dance of identity renegotiation and place-making. But when I couldn’t make sense of anything else, I fell deep into my line memorization, iMovie editing, the rich lore of my LEGO pretend play, and any other form of storytelling I could. This is my life pattern.
Even when I tried to escape it in college, claiming I wasn’t good enough to be an artist, and that I would study something “real” and “adult”, I ended up with a degree in Dance.
As I’ve discovered myself, I’ve been discovering who I am as an artist right alongside. As a kid who leaned on their art and their art communities to survive, I strive to create art for those who need community, who need to be seen. Because I thoroughly believe that through a community-oriented, radically inclusive art creation, we can create resonating stories that not only foster change on personal, local, and systemic levels but can actively make our lives better.
I do not create art in strict alignment with one particular style or technique. Because of my general lack of adherence to binaries as a nonbinary person, it truly does not make sense to me to create within an arbitrary lens. Let me use all the tools at my disposal to tell the stories I want to tell!
I am drawn to stories of outsiders; to looking at things we may have thought we understood in a new context. I like to push the boundaries of what “dance” or “theater” can be while still using the technique, training, and vision cultivated through years of backyard cabarets, elaborate pool dances, and quippy one-liners
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