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BIO

I am a choreographer/dancer/person living in Austin, Texas. I hold a BFA in Dance from Sam Houston State University and dances with the KDH Dance Company, Allysen Hooks Projects, BLiPSWiTCH, and other Austin artists. Right now, my work investigates things like detail, clothes, and puzzles. I frequently collaborate with my partner Jairus Carr.Events across Texas have been kind enough to include my pieces in their lineup: ARCOS Presents Short Form, Austin Dance Festival, BLiPSWiTCH’s Offbeat X, Barnstorm Dance Fest, Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, and local concerts produced by Austin artists such as ZATERO Dance, Emily Rushing, Carissa Topham Fisher, and Jahna Bobolia. I have also brought my work to national festivals, most recently White Wave Soloduo Dance Festival, Midwest RAD Fest, and St. Louis Contemporary Dance Festival. I have attended residencies with Keshet Makers Space Experience, WhirlWind Dance Company, Homeport Art House, Bellingham Repertory Dance, and Agora Artists. In 2025, Jairus and I produced our first show (and fundraiser) Everything We’ve Done So Far, a combination of all of their past duets together. I also choreographed my first evening-length work (in collaboration with Jairus again) titled Love you, moon, a site-specific show produced by Austin dance company BLiPSWiTCH.I also does other things.

ARTIST STATEMENT

To me, dance-making is like solving a puzzle. I gather individual elements- the dancers, the movement, the sound, the concept- and find the ways they connect and make sense to me. I figure out how those pieces form a bigger picture. As I’ve grown as an artist and grown older as a person, this act of connecting seeming randomness and making it into something personally meaningful has started to feel more and more reflective of living in general. I consider dance as my way of finding/making meaning in my life. It makes me feel significant, this puzzle-solving. It gives me an identity. It puts me in community with the people around me, through classes and performances and rehearsal processes. I too am a puzzle piece, finding my place in this big universal picture.My choreographic works are collages, connecting and weaving together things that I find interesting during the time of their creation, as well as ideas that arise between myself and my dancers during the process itself. I toe the line of specificity and abstraction. I want to make work that has recognizable mundane elements and is clearly about something, but I encourage an audience to form their own interpretations and have the final say on what that something is. For this reason, I draw inspiration heavily from everyday life- coffee, laundry, dinner, pants, and so on. My movement generation often stems from pedestrian gesture: sudden claps of the hands, subtle nods of the head, reluctant shrugs of the shoulders. My dancers move to the sound of dripping coffee, put clothing on hangers, and form human tables with their bodies. Often, deeper connections arise behind seemingly commonplace things that reflect my personal experiences and the experiences of my dancers: Breakfast food transforms into a study of intimacy between strangers. The dinner table becomes a manifestation of internal conflict. Laundry investigates themes of perception. Art imitates life, life imitates art, and round and round we go.

(photo by Sarah Annie Navarrete)

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You've Caught Us With Our Pants Down

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Breakfast

delicates

created in collaboration with celeste camfield

fish dish snare

created in collaboration with celeste camfield & jairus carr

Laundry Day

created in collaboration with jairus carr

You've Caught Us With Our Pants Down

created in collaboration with dancers

Pendleton

created in collaboration with J Obregon

DINNER

created in collaboration with Aidan Rodgers, Haley Funk, Kennedy Adams, & J Obregon

RENEE

Breakfast

created in collaboration with Kennedy Adams & J Obregon