About
I’ve spent nearly three decades working through dance as an artist, facilitator, leader, and creative partner.
At age 20, I wrote an artist statement titled Movement Inspired. In it, I declared that my life and career would be defined by seeking inspiration through movement—of my body, my mind, and my overall trajectory in life. Below, is the story of how that’s played out in three Acts.
My 20s were defined by an insatiable pursuit of dance. In the studio I was training or teaching around 30 hours a week. Under the stage lights I played a superhero, danced in a wedding dress, and spun 20 feet in the air above a crowd holding on with one hand. I visited Boys & Girls Clubs and schools, leading kids through exercises on trust, teamwork, and individual expression. I developed curriculum that connected movement to what kids were learning in school. To supplement my income, I taught Pilates to celebrities and lawyers, modeled medical scrubs, and choreographed flash mobs for corporate teams.
Act 1: Movement of the Body
At age 30, at the peak of my performing and teaching career, I learned that the debilitating pain I had been experiencing on and off since college was caused by hip dysplasia and the best option for moving forward was major hip surgery.
During this time, my creativity needed an outlet, so I wrote and published Anatomy Riot. While my body recovered relatively quickly, the interruption sparked a shift into my next phase.
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Intermission
I remained deeply committed to dance, yet my mindset began to shift. It became clear that I wanted a relationship to dance that extended beyond physical performance alone.
For the next eleven years, I founded and led Dance Wire, a nonprofit dance service organization dedicated to building community through dance. Through listening, producing, connecting, and advocating, my work expanded from practicing the craft toward understanding dance’s broader role within communities, systems, and society.
In the years following the pandemic, two parallel experiences catalyzed my next evolution.
From 2022–2024, I led a national group of dance service organization leaders through a sustained exploration of their local and national ecosystems. Together, we examined how dance communities were shifting in real time—navigating the space between what had been and what could be. That work profoundly reshaped how I understand systems, leadership, and change.
At the same time, I was leading a professional development program through Dance Wire, working one-on-one with dance artists as they shaped their careers, companies, and artistic identities. While I loved supporting these artists, the process reaffirmed something essential:
I do my best work when I am in the creative environment myself.
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Act 2: Movement of the Mind
In my 20-year-old mind, a life inspired by movement meant relentless curiosity, ongoing personal growth, and moving my body a lot.
Today it means integration. My work brings together decades of creative practice, leadership, mentorship, and systems-level thinking into a single body of work guided by a few central questions:
What becomes possible when we stop treating the body as secondary to thinking and instead let it lead?
How can we use dance as a tool for positive change?
In June 2025, I closed Dance Wire and returned to my natural habitat as a creative solo-practitioner working in partnership with individuals, organizations, and institutions across creative, educational, philanthropic, and civic contexts.
Across all of this work, my superpower has become clear: leading people through the creative process. I’ve done this with national cohorts of leaders, with dozens of independent artists over hundreds of mentorship sessions, and through the co-creation of original dance works, films, and facilitated experiences.
My throughline has always been movement - not just of bodies, but of ideas, systems, and possibilities. I think my 20 year old self would be proud.
