What is your dance lineage?

I have danced since I was a child, generally ballet and modern. I grew up with a studio background in a small town. My studio taught me a lot about how to use your creative mind. It taught me to think as an artist and person rather than just a dancer. We were taught how to improvise at a young age and mostly learned from the techniques of Doris Humphrey and Jose Limon. I was fortunate enough to have worked with some very talented instructors and artists; Ann Mosey, Amy Beversdorf and Pam Luedke. At the age of fourteen I also joined a youth Company in my home town that traveled and performed around Cental Wisconsin; ballet, modern, African, jazz and folk dancing. Post graduation, while attending college I found myself thinking about dance in a more serious and intelligent manor. I was beginning to be interested in how I can take my dancing and choreography to a new level. Mostly recently, this past summer I took part in the Trisha Brown Summer Intensive in New York City and plan to travel to Vienna Austria this next summer to attend Impulz Tanz.

What are your interests?

I am interested in many different ways and styles of work. I have always loved watching contemporary styles of ballet; William Forsythe, Hubbard Street, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet; the technique and skill that these dancers have are beyond a level of impression. The choreography and way of movement brings forth a new age of ballet that I really enjoy seeing. I recently have begun to be interested in performed improvisations and movement with technology. A few months ago I saw Hubbard Street Dance Chicago perform a group improvisation in the Chicago Art Institute. I was interested to see how the dancers would interact with the audience and the objects around them. I liked the excitement of the unexpectedness in choices of movement. I think technology also will be a big part of art and dance in the future. Use of video, photographs, mixed music ect. can come to accompany the performance in an appealing way.

Why should the public care about you, or your work?

As I am exploring and beginning to dig deeper into my own chorography I hope that the public can see my work the way I do. Because of my background in dance I tend to go towards more pedestrian and gestural style of movement, although that too is evolving and changing all the time. I like to use the space and create an atmosphere for the audience to see. I use my inspiration as a starting point for my own work in hopes to be able to create something new and inventive with it. I would hope to think my colleges , teachers, and friends see my work as original and imaginative.