About
I’ve spent over two decades working through dance—as an artist, facilitator, leader, and creative partner.
At age 20, I wrote an artist statement titled Movement Inspired. In it, I declared that my life and career would be defined by seeking inspiration through movement—of my body, my mind, and my overall trajectory in life. I share that story here in three Acts.
Act 1: Movement of the Body
My 20s were defined by an insatiable pursuit of dance. I trained, performed, choreographed, and taught dance and aerial as a freelancer, working nationally and internationally across artistic, educational, nonprofit, and commercial contexts. I was living my dream. See Credits
Intermission
At age 30, at the peak of my performing and teaching career, I was diagnosed with hip dysplasia and underwent major hip surgery. During this time, my creativity needed an outlet, so I wrote and published Anatomy Riot. While my body recovered relatively quickly, the interruption sparked a shift into my next phase.
Act 2: Movement of the Mind
While I remained deeply committed to dance, my mindset began to shift. It became clear that I wanted a relationship to dance that extended beyond physical performance alone.
For the next eleven years, I founded and led Dance Wire, a nonprofit dance service organization dedicated to building community through dance. Through listening, producing, connecting, and advocating, my work expanded from practicing the craft toward understanding dance’s broader role within communities, systems, and society.
In the years following the pandemic, two parallel experiences catalyzed my next evolution.
From 2022–2024, I led a national group of dance service organization leaders through a sustained exploration of their local and national ecosystems. Together, we examined how dance communities were shifting in real time—navigating the space between what had been and what could be. That work profoundly reshaped how I understand systems, leadership, and change.
At the same time, I was developing and leading a professional development program through Dance Wire, working one-on-one with early- and mid-career artists as they shaped their careers, companies, and artistic identities. The process reaffirmed something essential: at my core, I am most alive in the creative process itself—through collaboration, inquiry, and making.
Act 3: Movement Through Life
In my 20-year-old mind, a life inspired by movement meant relentless curiosity, ongoing personal growth, and moving my body a lot.
Today it means integration. My work brings together decades of creative practice, leadership, mentorship, and systems-level thinking into a single body of work guided by one central question:
What becomes possible if we embody dance as a tool for positive change?
In June 2025, I closed Dance Wire and returned to my natural habitat as a creative solo-practitioner working in partnership with individuals, organizations, and institutions across creative, educational, philanthropic, and civic contexts.
Across all of this work, my superpower has become clear: leading people through the creative process. I’ve done this with national cohorts of leaders, with dozens of independent artists over hundreds of mentorship sessions, and through the co-creation of original dance works, films, and facilitated experiences.
Whether I’m collaborating on a creative commission, mentoring an artist, or advising a funder, I bring the same approach - curiosity, embodiment, rigor, and vision - inviting movement not just of bodies, but of ideas, systems, and possibilities.
