teaching
I believe in dance as a beautiful, complex investigation of the body’s potential to move and personal, artistic expression.
In order to cultivate a positive, holistic view of the body, I view the studio space as a laboratory. A space to support experimentation and risk taking in my students’ approach to class and to suspend models of perfection. I embrace in my students and in my own practice both the successes and failures of inquiry and allow students to engage with their own learning through deliberate practice.
Through this, I aim to deconstruct authoritarian power models and construct an engaging community atmosphere.
This is in line with a deep passion and investigation of technique and the importance of building a strong bodily foundation in order to have full command over our bodies. I believe in the class as a support system in which to learn from one another rather than gazing through a lens of judgement. It is my belief that practices within the studio do not operate within a vacuum. Rather, I embrace and reinforce to my students that these practices can serve to influence the space outside of the studio and perhaps shift our perspective and engagement within that space.