I am and always have been a maker. I am a North Carolina native, African American woman and artist, who was born into a dance loving family. Captivated by the whim, magic, and melancholy of the human experience, I aim to hold up a mirror to the society we form and participate in, to the communities and cultures we identify ourselves with, and lastly to the tremendous and unique experiences that form us as individuals. Our guts, instincts, weakness, power, voice that we do or don’t find, and our numerous attempts to relate, drive me—I believe in the physicality of what makes us inevitably, catastrophically, hilariously*?,, heartbreakingly, and wonderfully human.
I believe in the blending dance forms, blending artistic mediums, and questioning. I always imagined myself in them and making them, and growing up I added the storytelling of movies to my visions. From there I questioned how I could bring that honesty, personality, and unabashed humanness into dance and art. With roots as an African American woman from the south, I have always been aware of the displacement of colored bodies and our continuous seeking for identity and community. Always out of place, and never agreeing to be defined as one thing or one idea, I came closer to my own identity in things that I love.
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*I am interested in the physicality, dynamic, textures, and detail of movement to communicate. The use of camera in photography and film allows you to translate the human experience through perspective and helps to build the intimacy and meaning I long for. I aim to be inclusive building a bridge for the audience to connect, imagine, and reflect. **** Utilizing screenwriting, specific movement studies, writing, photography, and narrative,
Music, people, dance, writing, photography, and film inspire me. I aim to make live dance works, portrait and street/documentary photography, and music videos, dance films, and narrative films. These works will not follow given guidelines or what is expected by society demands. My work conjures greater representation, greater spectrum of individuals, and does not hide from what we are.
I am still the same girl who would stay up all night for dioramas, posters, papers, presentations, and tests. Eyes heavy, body heavy but on engines of effort and whim. I see all the possibilities and feel the grasp of all of them as I form ideas in my hands. If you can’t give it your all, I don’t think I would know how to approach the thing.
I am the generation obsessed with movies and music videos.
I am and always have been a maker. Captivated by the whim, magic, and melancholy of the human experience, I aim to hold up a mirror to the society we form and participate in, to the communities and cultures we identify ourselves with, and lastly to the tremendous and unique experiences that form us as individuals. Our guts, instincts, weakness, power, voice that we do or don’t find, and our numerous attempts to relate, drive me—I believe in the physicality of what makes us inevitably, catastrophically, heartbreakingly, and wonderfully human.
I am interested in the physicality, dynamic, textures, and detail of movement to communicate. The use of camera in photography and film allows you to translate the human experience through perspective and helps to build the intimacy and meaning I long for. I aim to be inclusive building a bridge for the audience to connect, imagine, and reflect. Utilizing screenwriting, specific movement studies, writing, photography, and narrative, I share my experience as an African American woman born in suburban south and hope to share a spectrum of the experiences of the others around me.