I see the creative process as research and as a cyclical act.

Willem de Kooning once said, every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. This preoccupation with busting my idea of dance to hell exhausts me, yet resonates throughout my creative, performance, and teaching interests. My recent works question and disrupt the accepted conventions and the hierarchy of values found in dance performance. How can I cultivate audience engagement beyond distanced spectatorship? How can performance be an embodied experience for the spectator as well as the performer? What happens when we rebel against the structure of a traditional performance space? Are virtuosic movements and vocabularies necessary, or even helpful, when questioning performance presentation in this way? I value experimentation. I enjoy performance works that remain open-ended and in constant flux. I see the creative process as research and as a cyclical act. I create to learn more about creating and am driven by the overwhelming amount of questions that permeate my existence.