about

    How does the body interact with language? How can a linguistic inheritance and the
    language that bombards us daily produce choreography? In the fourth grade, after refusing
    to pronounce “caribou” in the same way my teacher does, I quickly learned that the use and
    misuse of language can have social and physical effects on the body. Drawing on elements of
    movement, performance art, poetry, and sound art, I investigate the field where alphabetic and
    gestural language shape the movements of the body. As a response to standards of movement
    and speech, ordeal has become my guiding method of choreography. Recently my performances
    have merged inefficient uses of breath with unlikely combinations of movement, endurance,
    poetry, found text, speech, singing, and non-linguistic vocalization. My playful, yet methodical
    process often involves repetition (with slight variation), amplification, transposition, constraints,
    and permutation—with particular attention to the arrangement of the various elements in space.