I view dance as a visual art form and it is this belief that informs my creative process. To me, the clarity and detail of the visual environment serves as an invitation for the audience, emphasizing the images and feelings that the dance evokes. I incorporate costumes, projections and installations that provoke the audience to re-examine their perception of movement, its context, and emotional qualities. I am fascinated by the concept of space and address it both in my choreography and design. I approach every piece as a site-specific work, even if it is performed in a conventional theater. New York Times dance critic Jennifer Dunning sited my work as having a “wonderfully imaginative use of the theater's odd layout.“
I deeply value collaboration, and have worked with composers Rama Gottfried, Aleksei Stevens, and Martin Gendelman, visual artists Kristina Bilonick and Milosz Koziej, theater director Karin Abromaitis, video artist Daniel Rebaudo and costume designer Laura Quatroccii. I am currently developing a duet with theater director Naoko Meashiba, which will be presented at Dance Place, DC in January 2012.
In the past few years, my works have been presented both locally and internationally and I have been recognized among the “few forward-thinking choreographers [in the DC area] who meticulously craft high-quality performances”(Amanda Abrams, Washington City Paper). I received a Metro DC Dance Award for Emerging Choreographer for the duet 'to blue' (2008), the Prince George’s Arts Council grant for individual artist for ‘Locus’ (2009), the Maryland State Arts Council Award for Solo Dance Performance (2010) and Choreography (2011). I am honored to have been selected as an artist in residence for 2011/2012 at American Dance Institute (MD), where was the premiere of my work 'Left of Green. Fall' in May 2012.
I deeply value collaboration, and have worked with composers Rama Gottfried, Aleksei Stevens, and Martin Gendelman, visual artists Kristina Bilonick and Milosz Koziej, theater director Karin Abromaitis, video artist Daniel Rebaudo and costume designer Laura Quatroccii. I am currently developing a duet with theater director Naoko Meashiba, which will be presented at Dance Place, DC in January 2012.
In the past few years, my works have been presented both locally and internationally and I have been recognized among the “few forward-thinking choreographers [in the DC area] who meticulously craft high-quality performances”(Amanda Abrams, Washington City Paper). I received a Metro DC Dance Award for Emerging Choreographer for the duet 'to blue' (2008), the Prince George’s Arts Council grant for individual artist for ‘Locus’ (2009), the Maryland State Arts Council Award for Solo Dance Performance (2010) and Choreography (2011). I am honored to have been selected as an artist in residence for 2011/2012 at American Dance Institute (MD), where was the premiere of my work 'Left of Green. Fall' in May 2012.