“A signature of my aesthetic as an artist is the way in which I use the process of making body casts as tangible objects that represent both process and product in performance. The body casting incorporates an educational communal experience as well as a self-reflective one.”

I am an American born interdisciplinary artist living in Tucson Arizona, who has lived in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Venezuela. I received my education from the North Carolina School of the Arts for high school, received a BFA from Purchase College in 2004, a Post Graduate Certificate in Choreography from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2014, and an MFA from the University Washington in 2020. In 2016, I studied sculpture and body casting at the Canossa Scuola di Scultura in Reggio Emilia.

As a professional dancer, I was a  full-time company member with Shen Wei Dance Arts for many years and continue to work with Shen Wei as guest artist. I have performed works of Kazuko HIrabayashi, Sidra Bell, Noemie LaFrance, Tania Perez-Salas, Stefan Dreher, Hubert Lepka, Yang Jiang, Franca Ferarri, Susan Marshall, Brian Brooks, and Daniel Charon.   In Theater, I have performed works of Steve Cooke of Stella Adler Acting Studio, Jenny Koons, and acted in a Student Academy Award winning film by John Mattuizzi. I performed a durational work by Dorian Silec Petek which was curated by Robert Wilson. I have collaborated in interdisciplinary projects with artists such as Jacopo Foggini(designer), Yuval Avital(composer), Piergiorgio Casotti (photographer), Mario Vighi (writer), Luciano Bosi (musician), Fabrizio Orsi (fashion photographer), Chanhee Choi (digital video and textile artist), Abbey Blackwell (musician), and Abigail Jara (VR and video artist).

As an independent artist my work has been shown in the US at Duo Emergence Gallery (Manhattan), Dumbo Dance Festival (Brooklyn), The Widow Jane Mine (Rosendale NY), Springboard Danse (Montrea)l, Republic Theater in (Salzburg), Centro Cultural de La Florida Santiago (Chile), Spazio Gerra, Indigo Festival, Rimini Live Festival, Fotografia Europea Festival, Teatro San Prospero, CSAC Parma Museum, and Mutty Gallery in (Italy), Shoonya Center for Somatic Arts, 1Shanthiroad Studio Gallery in (India), Meany Studio Theater, Oxbow Gallery, the ASUW Shell house, Design in Public AIA Festival in (Seattle), Deborah Slater Dance Theater, Inferno Festival Berkeley, Marin Center for Performing Arts, and SAFEhouse Arts (San Francisco), Arts for Action (Australia)

I have taught at various institutions such as Fondazione Della Danza Aterballetto RE, Balletto Toscano, Nuovo Balletto Classico RE, C.I.M.D. Milano, Shoonya Center for Somatic Arts India, Bangalore School of Performing Arts, Centro Cultural del la Florida Santiago Chile, Shen Wei Dance Arts Intensive NY, University of California at Santa Barbara, Velocity Center and the University of Washington Seattle, and Alonzo Kings Lines Ballet BFA and Professional Training Programs in San Francisco. I currently am an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at the University of Arizona. As well as Assistant Director to Karmina Silec and Paola Prestini for the Opera Old Man and the Sea premiering in Phoenix in November.