Art | Dance | Music| Experiments

Take a dancer trained and always training in two very specific and deeply rooted cultural styles, who holds deep reverence and respect for them both. She loves the land, people, and traditions that develop(ed) and foster(ed) them. She is recognized by community keepers and elders. She has committed decades of her life to them. 

What is that dancer to do when she wants to scratch an artistic itch, to use her lifetime of dancing to try new things while not pretending it is anything but authentic to her own experiences, loves, losses, joys, laughs, tears, friendships, body, and interests? When she has to dance it to find out what it means? When cultural integrity is a standard she has used and will continue to use for her dance work? When her own mixed and not-so-distant roots are tangled and alive and loudly beckoning? When she isn't doing it for fame or fortune? When she knows there are connections and paths and doors and bliss and change to be made with this expression? 

Spoiler alert: It me. I'm figuring it out. Like all things worth doing, it is sometimes awesome and sometimes embarrassing, it's all about collaborating with fellow weirdos, and it's probably about the process more than any particular destination.

So far in 2025 this looks like finding experimental musical artists from my beloved source cultures and interpreting and working with them to see what happens.  Please never let me be a context-free artist. None of this happens in a vacuum or a tower or alone. It looks like doing and performing the rooted work I've been trained and raised in, and then also adding a piece in that pushes me a little, and maybe the form, and maybe the audience, and maybe the work, while keeping it connected and growing in a way that is also rooted. 

We shall see. Here for the conversations and the here for the lavoro.