Choreography

A Dance With Destiny

Commission: Ballet BC Annex / Premiere: Annex Tour - Vancouver 2024

Our destiny calls us. But the dance to get there is an initiation that requires us to meet all of ourselves. The piece is an excavation into the deserts, dunes, mountains and valleys, drawing the seeker inwards to dance with their shadows in a curriculum of desperation and destiny.

Women Of The Earth

Premiere: Cawthra Park Repertoire Ensemble - Toronto 2023

Arriving together, surrounded by celebration and oneness, the women of the earth are a reminder to honour life and creation. Embodying Power, strength, vulnerability, and grace, we begin to understand their journey. The distance, space, and travels of their inner impeccability.

Remembering Beyond Form

Commission: Dance Ontario Creative Partnership / Premiere: Dance Weekend - Toronto 2022

A prayer for radical responsibility

Perhaps humanity has done this dance many times before. Drawing from the wisdom of the ancestors, this piece invites us to go beyond the forms of ethnicity, color, race, and other dividing lines. To utilize our gifts of knowing, to tap into the memories woven into our cells, encoded in our hearts, and to remember who we really are. May we move beyond the blame and finger-pointing and take radical responsibility for what we create next on this planet.

A calling to remember…

Our ancestors stand each night looking over us as we sleep, reaching through the realms that separate the dimensions hoping we will hear them.

“You have the gift child”

We stir, we stretch, we awaken for a moment only to fall back asleep. This life is a dream within a dream, and we fall deeper and deeper into the trance of reality.

We dance, we fight, and we point our fingers outwards.

“It’s you!” “It’s you!”
“No, it’s you!”

“It’s your fault we are here in this place. You did this. Your race did this. Your people did this.” “You must hurt. You must be punished. You must suffer as I suffer. You must suffer as my people suffer. You must know the pain. You must feel our pain.”

And so we row this boat, this body of ours into the dark valleys of the earth; getting tangled in the weeds of blame.

What if our physical form has played with many colours? What if we’ve all been black, we’ve all been white, we’ve been brown, and everything in between? We keep coming back here, to this earth, replaying the same song, the same dance, wearing different colours and masks, and yet we do not remember.

We hurt, we kill, we maim, and oppress each other. We are disconnected from the pain of the other. We have forgotten that this is our own pain being projected, magnified, and amplified out into the world. What we do to the other, we have done to ourselves, and continue to do to ourselves.

What if we are both victims and perpetrators of every crime ever committed, and every hurt ever inflicted? Perhaps we have danced this dance many times before. We have created, cast, and danced circles around pain. We have given up our lives and taken lives.

The voices of our ancestors beckon to us....“You have the gift child. It’s time for you to remember.”

Nostalgic Beings Of Synesthesia

Premeire: 41st Annual Battery Dance Festival - New York City 2022

We are the physical and metaphysical existence of the mind on earth. Exotic winged creatures in a constant state of the chrysalis. We are from the before and after time. This piece is the continuation of constant conversations, the dialogue of speaking in a language unknown to humankind. It explores the physical experience of undulating spiritual verbal dialect through movement. The piece offers a glimpse into the inner world of a dancer with synaesthesia, which acts as a portal into accessing other realms of consciousness, and memories. The trance is set in motion through the compilation of numerous instrumental sounds, rhythms, beats, tempos, and patterns, evoking and moving the audience to go deeper into self.

Estrella Emergence

Commission: Mississauga Arts Council Dance on Film Grant / World Premiere: Live Stream 2021

Estrella Emergence is a movement-based short film, transitioning from the darkness of the worldwide pandemic to the light & celebration that awaits humanity. Estrella, the Spanish origin meaning star, is a metaphor for the light that is in each human being. We explore the sensations of being tethered to a location with the burdens of everyday life and the transformation of becoming a warrior of the light.

How can we move through the pain of last year to find the wisdom & strength to move forward. How can we trust that joy & freedom can enter our lives again.