professional works
ridge (2021)
coalesce (2021)
Ruminations (2020)
Who Decides (2019)
Emory University | Atlanta, GA
Premiered at the 20th annual 12th Night Revel event in the Woodruff Library on Emory University’s campus, February 21, 2020, Who Decides is a movement and film response to poet Nikki Giovanni’s work Allowables.
I gotta (2015)
American Dance Festival | Durham, NC
Breaking Ground 18 Dance Festival | Tempe, AZ
Performance of I Gotta at two national dance festivals. The American Dance Festival showcased work by alumni as part of their concert series for the summer festival. The alumni were selected from a wide pool of emerging and established contemporary choreographers. The Breaking Ground Dance Festival was a 2-day event that presented work by regional choreographers.
student works
lifted (2021)
perejil (2020)
perejil takes inspiration from the poem "Parsley" by Rita Dove, based on a mass killing of Haitian migrant workers in 1937. Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered everyone put to death that could not pronounce the word "parsley" in Spanish, "perejil." This work, set on Emory Dance Company dancers, considers how language affords life and acknowledges this event's horror to remember the lost lives of this event and the ones we continue to lose to ignoble powers.
form and fragment (2019)
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts | Atlanta, GA
An abstract exploration of formation and fragmentation. The work resembles the imagery of a kaleidoscope, constantly morphing to materialize, enter a new world, and undoubtedly break apart into fragments. The choreography draws from contemporary modern dance, hip-hop, House, boxing and workaday pedestrian movement.
Respirando Agua: Untitled Dreams (2019)
Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater | Long Beach, CA
An abstract exploration of the relationships between breath and water. The work considers the symbolism of breath, its functions, and its powers. In addition, the last breath of a close family member that passed away inspires the work; a shallow inhale shadowed by a resonant stillness. Simultaneously, the piece is inspired by the numerous dreams that the choreographer had about water in the past year. Water in it’s many forms, juxtapositions, and meanings: vast oceans, chaotic waves, weighted rainfall, uncharted regions, submersion, suspension, and purification.
Remnants (2018)
Richard & Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center | Long Beach, CA
Part of a collaborative concert between the Dance and Music departments where the student symphony orchestra and choir play live music. Remnants interprets the emotional and musical complexity of Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto composed by Gustav Mahler. The piece seeks balance between the emotional dichotomies in the music (joy pitted against sadness, hope standing up to fear) through explorations of spatial proximity and connection, or lack thereof.
Chance The Sample (2017)
Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater | Long Beach, CA
A hip-hop piece inspired by Merce Cunningham’s chance procedures. A live DJ plays one of two sets unbeknownst to the dancers. The sets are comprised of famous hip-hop songs that sample each other. The piece maintains the integrity of the “call and response” tradition that exists in street dance, and African diasporic dance forms, where dancers respond to the DJ’s call.