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Artistic Statement 

 

            My choreographic aesthetic is to create expression through the interaction of various elements: focus, stillness, speed, pattern, intention of movement and beauty. I believe in choreography built on integrity. It is important to show a work of art through its true meaning and purpose. I believe that the process of choreographing can be generated in a matter of unusual order, as long as it illustrates a beginning, middle and end. 

            I believe dance can be a first language. It speaks in a language of limbs, torso, hips, feet, toe, head, and neck. The impulses that connect within my body manipulate my movement into something new everyday. I investigate new forms of dramatic experience that targets a feeling, stimulates the sense, and activates the mind.

            Dance brings the pure joy of moving and it enables to express emotions and dramatic impulses. It allocates ways to communicate with the environment and with our social beings. Dance allows us as artists to express our inner beauty. Beauty is the human form of breathing, feeling, and thinking. It allows us to work our body, mind and spirit simultaneously. Being honest as a performer is beautiful. Being able to express who you are as a performer shows true beauty. Having the opportunity to perform in front of a crowd and connecting with one another is beauty.

            I love dancing. I love inventing movement, watching it, and doing it. I’ve spent many years dancing in the work of others and it taught me much about what the body can express. When I started inventing my own works, it had opened up another side of me and I finally got the sense of feeling like an artist and that I was growing into becoming one. It gave me a chance to convince my mind and body that I can create my own movement, put it on others, have them take it and find a way to recreate it with their own style.

            What I love most about dancing is that it distracts negativity from the outside setting. This is because dance requires focus. It compels the ability to adjust your focus, as needed, both internally and externally whether it’s your thoughts, emotions, physical responses, sights or sounds.  This helps involves blocking out the many potential distractions in your state of mind.  

            I am very pleased that dance has been a part of my life for so long. There is no way to emphasize exactly what dance has done for me. All I know is that it has made me grown as an individual and it has made me appreciate others.  

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