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This Thing That We're Doing/Sorry About All Of The Music/Sorry About All Of The Words

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Choreographed in collaboration with jairus carr
Photos by Lynn Lane
Filmed for Austin Dance Festival 2023

Breakfast

Coffee meets pastry, biscuit meets jam, stranger meets stranger.

Photos by Aidan Rodgers
Filmed for Austin Dance Festival 2022

Laundry Day

a series of brief duets about clothes (and quarters). Shirt, Turtleneck, Buttondown, Tanktop, Pants, Shorts, Shirt. "Do you like my outfit?"

filmed for austin dance festival 2024

bedroom

(in which we dance with a lamp and tea kettle.)

Choreographed in collaboration with Jairus carr
Filmed for Carissa Topham's and Emily Rushing's SMORG in 2023

In Medias Res

A jazz quartet capturing the joy and spontaneity of an improv jam.

Filmed for Austin Dance Festival
Choreographed in collaboration with Jairus Carr and dancers

Something Else

A whole is the sum of its parts. Or is it? Something Else watches miniature, mysterious narratives unfold in and out of their contexts.

photos by lynn lane
created in fullfillment of Aimed Dance Company's Emerging Choreographer Fellowship 2021

Pendleton

Show, not tell.

Filmed by Alexander Sargent for White Wave Solo Duo Dance Festival

the figure is losing its features

Inspired by the surrounding architecture, a soloist struggles with identity and form.

photos by Elysia Perkins
created as a site-specific work at the curtain theatre in austin, texas, for Blipswitch's offbeat x

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I am a choreographer, dancer, and teacher living in Austin, Texas. Since graduating from Sam Houston State University with my BFA in Dance in 2021, I’ve danced for the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company while maintaining a personal focus on choreography. my work uses mundane aspects of life as sources for movement generation: coffee, laundry, dinner, pants, and so on. I like to draw attention to the nuance, strangeness, and humor that exists within the activities we do every day. Art imitates life, life imitates art, and round and round we go.Events across Texas have been kind enough to include my pieces in their lineup: Austin Dance Festival, Blipswitch’s Offbeat X, Barnstorm Dance Fest, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Houston Fringe Fest, Agora Artists’ SEEDS, and local concerts produced by Austin artists such as Zatero Dance, Emily Rushing, Carissa Topham, and Jahna Bobolia. I’ve also brought my work to national festivals, including Mashup’s International Women’s Day Dance Festival (Los Angeles), MADCO's Dare to Dance (St. Louis), and White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival (New York City).Along with my own choreography, I have danced on a variety of stages, both proscenium and nontraditional. During my time at Sam Houston State University, I had the chance to work with faculty members and guest choreographers Adele Nickel, Donald C. Shorter Jr., Evelyn Toh, Dionne Noble, and Rohan Bhargava. While living in Austin, in addition to training and performing with Kathy Dunn Hamrick, I have danced for dance company Blipswitch’s Kate Bush Waking the Witch Concert Tribute, filmmaker Oddalys Salcido’s dance film a guide to: delusion, and artist Justo Cisnero’s sculpture pop-up exhibit The Silk Flower and the Honey Bee.In 2021, I received an Emerging Choreographer Fellowship with Aimed Dance Company and created a new work with its dancers for their Summer Fest. During the summer of 2023, I travelled to Washington to reset my duet Breakfast on the dancers of Bellingham Repertory Dance. Déjà vu- Jairus Carr and I completed this residency again in the summer of 2023, resetting our collaborative duet This Thing That We’re Doing.Occasionally, I teach professional-level cotemporary masterclasses, where dancers improvise responses to a series of creative prompts. (Travel through a room full of invisible laser beams. Imagine a pinball bouncing through your torso. Pretend a giant fan is propelling you across the floor.) Imagery-based exercises encourage movers to unlock new movement pathways and conquer their habitual patterns. most recently, Jairus Carr and i co-taught a class for the university of Houston's fall guest artist series.i also serve as the communications director for austin dance festival, where i handle email communications and social media. When I’m not dancing, I dabble in reading, taking walks, and drinking overpriced coffee.

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march 23rd- presenting duet Laundry Day at austin dance festival 2024 in austin, texas.

March 1st- presenting duet This Thing That We’re Doing with jairus Carr at RAD fest 2024 in Kalamazoo, michigan.

February 21st-24th- performance in Blipswitch's Unstill Life at the Wolf House in Austin, Texas.

February 9th-10th- presenting new work microwave on the students of Mccallum fine arts theatre for its spring show progressions.

November 11th-12th- presenting new duet guests choreographed in collaboration with Jairus Carr at Jahna Bobolia's COMMUNITY.

October 19th & 21st- performance in 1, 2, 3, sometimes dance feels very dramatic and ironic to me by Jairus Carr at Dance Carousel.

October 5th-7th- presenting In Medias Res choreographed in collaboration with Jairus Carr at TDIF.

September 16th- choreography and performance in a guide to: delusion by filmmaker Oddalys Salcido at their film festival preheat fest.

September 13th- performance at Wild Ruins Wild Orientations pop-up sculpture park The silk flower and the honey bee by artist Justo Cisnero.

June 7th & 10th- Performance in Season 25 with the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company.