Devotion is the home of my artistic practice. I am devoted to dance. I am devoted to my children. I am devoted to this planet. Through my work, I question the nature of this devotion. I use it as fuel to explode and explore myths, practices, and ideas about western dance practice, motherhood, gender, and the natural world.

My solo work begins with my body; the systems that have created me as a person, and trained me as a dancer. I appear in my work as archetypal feminine/feminized characters. I use these characters, and their journeys, to analyze the following; western dance training as repetition, ritual, and initiation into hetero-normative expectations of the body, myths about the relationship between humans and the natural world, and motherhood as ritualized gender performance.

Duration, costume, and humor, are favorite tools. My work unfolds slowly, allowing viewers opportunities for multiple interpretations of a given image. Costumes and/or props help me to create these images. I use costume changes to shift images over time. The shifts often result in the revelation of subtle, absurdist humor as images unravel, or end up somewhere unexpected. I want audiences to question their own expectations as they watch my work. At the same time, I am in awe of danced virtuosity, and training as a form of worship. I draw on my skill as a dancer to bring the question of skill into the experience of the work itself.

Even as I dismantle and deconstruct, I return to devotion and the love that devotion requires. I want audiences to leave an experience of my work with a deeper love for dance, for the body, and for the natural world. Rather than offering them a prescription for how to behave re: these ideas, I want them to leave energized and thoughtful, ready to act in their own lives in a way that is loving and ethical.