I believe cultivating a bodily perspective generates an empathy to and potential for a greater range of experience.

In alliance with domestic and international institutions and peoples I am committed to the development of bodily awareness as a basis for social interaction and cultural exchange by employing dance as a medium for critical discourse in research, performance and education.

Philosophy

Our perspectives are shaped by our movement through life. Through the filter of socially and culturally conditioned behaviors and reflexes an individual creates an efficient and pleasurable movement repertoire unique to their tastes and preferences. Whether this individual rep continually brings them satisfaction through life relies on the individual’s capability to interpret and integrate the bombardment of sensations one experiences in this life.

The capability to continually adjust our habits to insure both physical and psychological well-being is a unique attribute of man.

I aim to recognize this strength in individuals and promote the maturation of a bodily awareness that runs parallel to the culturally standard development of intellectual reasoning and abstraction. I believe cultivating a bodily perspective generates an empathy to and potential for a greater range of experience.A more differentiated mass be it a social body like a business or our own bodies runs in a more efficient way by allowing parts to express their unique potential while being integrated into a whole. Making distinctions between movements in the body opens us up to being more creative to the interpretation of new stimulus on a physical as well as intellectual level. In this way we link motivation to action in an immediate manner. This knowledge allows us to be flexible in a wide range of social contexts - promoting unity while preserving the integrity of the individual.

By identifying and developing a bodily etiquette in our work we support the development of a global society in which the sensitivity and keen intellect of an individual is a full-bodied experience.

Dance being a social medium, a purposeful exchange of moving bodies, makes it a perfect medium for the active development of this philosophy.

Projects

These attitudes are motivated by past and current educational and live performance projects.
My work method has a strong emphasis on process and community. It is one of creating multiple hypotheses’ surrounding the topic of inquiry or inspiration, researching and experimenting in private but also in sessions open to the pubic. Workshops and work in progress showings are an integral part of shaping the perspective of the work I create: complimentary to my belief in dance as an active medium for social discourse and communal exchange. Outside a more common,“ development of dance in a studio model,” my collaborators and myself further the development of our creative work by linking it to educational forums held for adults and children in our immediate communities.

A willingness to learn involves vulnerability essential to acquiring new skill sets and sensations, and, is inevitably empowering. I continually aim for this sort of transparency in our process and wish to unite and grow with those who witness and experience these trails.

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