Dance is a language. It is a visual, visceral, expressionistic form of communication. Its basic movements, no matter what type, should be able to speak as lucidly to an audience as two people speak to each other about any topic worth discussing. Every idea and every emotion shared in a conversation can be articulated through dance. My work focuses on tapping into and presenting basic human emotion cultivated from atypical situations: elaborate formal dinner parties, bleak prison courtyards, uneasy school board meetings, etc. In exploring these situations and the people in them, we as viewers become more aware of the fundamental humanness that runs though all of us.

The research into these arenas of life is an attempt to really understand (and eventually present to people) the significance of how we all connect. Life is built around the construction and deconstruction of relationships. To explore these relationships fully, I think we have to examine the “deep underground current” that connects us all – the obsessions we share, the illnesses we face, the taboo parts of life that really teach us about loneliness and then, ultimately, unity.