I resolutely conclude that body-mind intelligence, funneled through the scope of dance movement and making, is integral to a well-rounded, holistic way of existing within the world. Dance demands critical thinking skills, creativity, collaboration, and sensitivity. Our dancing selves are not separate from the other parts of our lives, rather this dancing identity is in service to the whole. This congruence grants us access to a life of more depth and more richness.
A connected person is an intelligent person: self to self, self to another, self to environment. Understanding that we are integrated within the world is key to moving through life with grace, wit, and confidence. Dance gives one the tools to successfully navigate the complexity of human life and to contribute to society with meaning. I create, perform, and educate to inspire people with an appreciation for the performing arts.
Dancing is the realest way for me to show up in the world. This felt sense way of living makes the most sense. It’s the conduit with which I see clearly.; like a filtered lens my dance practice allows me to be open, receiving, and active. Dance and dance-making is an analog experience that makes space to be in relationship with all sentients. It asks us to be sensitive and responsive to our environment and those we share it with.
Dance making is personal testimony. Choreography reveals where my attention is; a timestamp on a moment, logging trajectory and history. Performing reveals who I am– a shedding of the exoskeleton, unveiling the soft and sacred bits my bodymind carries.
The beauty of working with the body is that it allows for a spectrum of expression. The body can inhabit many states of being. I allow for the passage of time, my lived experience, identity, and culture to revolutionize and deepen my artistic voice. I welcome new ideas, stylistic choices, and methodologies to alchemize my work. Because of this, my curiosities in choreography stretch deep and wide. I do not limit myself by staying confined to one way of making or one aesthetic. My work has been influenced by jazz aesthetics, electronic dance music, technology/media, somatics, fine art, poetry, emergent realities and more.
My work is rooted in themes of tenacity, subtlety, femininity and temporality. How can one bring their full selves to a work, from process to performance? I allow the work to unfold with time, organically and honestly with those that I am working with. I value my collaborators voices and I work with them to create something singular in nature. My pedagogy and choreography express nuance through dexterous physicality with the moving body holding the epicenter. Valuing both the kinetic and somatic experience, I aim to capture fleeting moments of the human experience; a bid for connection, here to offer feeling and a bit of wonder.
Gallery photos by William Frederking