I (they/them) am a spiritual being with roots in the Northeast and Southeast regions of the United States. I am an interdisciplinary artist, movement facilitator, memory worker, and embodied storyteller working in dance, sound, video, and ethnography.  My layered corporeality shapes the lens through which I investigate, create, and express my experiences.  I am a glitched body (as coined by Legacy Russell) navigating multiple realities, living underneath and within systems that seek to oppress and shape my body and self.  As a navigator, I offer reflections on society, time, and place in its present.  My practice takes shape through the use of performance, installation, improvisational and somatic techniques, collaboration, and writing.  My work allows for me to make sense of the present by examining it alongside the past in the hopes of creating otherwise possibilities in our nearest future. 

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Inside of this journey I am concerned with the body as an archive, spatial and temporal orientation, and care.

Black Feminist Theory, storytelling, and reflection are components of my practice that aide in my orienting, dreaming, and articulation. Collaboration, creative space making, facilitation, and engaging with an ethic of care allow me to invite others into my investigation of the body as an archive. I pursue an ethic of care in an effort to create safe spaces, foster community accountability, and reduce violence in embodied/somatic and dance/movement work. I imagine what an ethic of care can bring to our history/story sharing, teaching, space making, interactions, and relationship building. 

Themes that myself and my work are currently living inside of are orienting in the present, care as embodied practice, and the prefix “re” in rituals of becoming.

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I am originally from Mount Vernon, NY, on land first stewarded by the Wappinger, Munsee Lenape, and Schaghticoke Nations. My love of dance was first nurtured at home to the sounds of RnB, Jazz, and WBGO’s Rhythm Revue. I began creating performances at family gatherings, joined the Praise Dance Team at my home church, Mother A.M.E. Zion (Harlem, NY), and was a dance captain in high school. My formal training started at The Dance Theatre of Harlem School, after which I received my BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2015).

From 2015-2020 I showcased work through my project based collective in Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, and Detroit. I have performed with companies Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround, Putty Dance Project, Dancespora, KCBC, and Jo-Me’ Dance. I have worked with choreographers Michael Mao, Jasmine Powell, Raphael Xavier, and Joanna Kotze. My writing has been featured in works by iKada Dance, and Drye Marinaro Dance Company. I am a past artist in residence with The Wassaic Project , and Activation Residency.

I completed my MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis and Master's Certificate in African and African American Studies from Duke University (2022). Recently, I was awarded the 2021-2022 Kenan Institute of Ethics Graduate Arts Fellowship in Social Choreography and Performance. I am recipient of the 2023-2024 Durham Arts Council Artist Support Grant.

I have immense gratitude for the dance lineages, instructors, professors, colleagues, collaborators, friends, family, and ancestors who have continued to support me, without this village I would be not here.

I am currently based in Durham, NC on land first stewarded by the Shakori, Lumbee, Cheraw, Tuscarora, Catawba, and Occaneechi band of Saponi Nations.