Dancer | Improviser  | Educator

I am a dancer from Portland, Oregon. I trained in classical ballet through various traditional approaches before integrating release-based movement, improvisation, and experimental choreographic practices into my work. I have performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Christopher Williams Dance, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, the David Gordon Pick-Up Company, and Oregon Ballet Theatre, and have collaborated with independent choreographers, visual artists, and musicians across the U.S. and Europe.

A central influence in my development was the late Janet Panetta, whose teaching profoundly shaped my understanding of ballet’s interiority and its relation to perception. Her classes at the Panetta Movement Center and at ImPulsTanz invited me to sense ballet from the inside—to find clarity and precision through humour, listening, musicality, and self-responsiveness rather than external conformity.

My work focuses on projects that explore new approaches to movement, group dynamics, composition, exhibition, and reflection. I value meaningful relationships with artists and communities locally and internationally, and have contributed to the creation of more than thirty original works across a range of contexts, including public spaces. My roles have included performer, rehearsal director, choreographic assistant, movement director, and technical coach. These collaborations have been presented at venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, BAM, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Palace of Versailles, and the Park Avenue Armory, among others.

As a teacher, I have worked with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Cullberg, Norrdans, ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier Wien, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Gibney Dance Center in New York, Marameo Berlin, and the Judith Sánchez Ruíz Professional Contemporary Dancer Certification Program, where I also serve on the Artistic Advisory Board. As well, I lead research: I co-facilitated two Field Research Projects at ImPulsTanz—Bad Ballet (2025) with Elizabeth Ward and Kevin Fay, and Certain Dance Circumstance (2023) with Lenio Kaklea.

I have taught at several universities including Zürich University of the Arts, Iceland University of the Arts, Stockholm University of the Arts, The New School in New York, and The University of the Arts HZT Berlin. My pedagogy emphasizes interdisciplinary exchange, and designs curricula to think and move. My classes bring dance technique into dialogue with somatic experience, music and rhythm, composition, and critical theory.

My current doctoral research investigates ballet as a living, responsive, and unfinished gesture—it thinks through ballet and complex histories of training through technique, pedagogy, and dialogue.

Training & Influences

My formation as a dancer and researcher weaves together classical ballet, contemporary dance, and artistic research. I began my training at Oregon Ballet Theatre in Portland and continued through the Winter Training Program at the School of American Ballet in New York City. My early studies also included training at Boston Ballet School, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and American Ballet Theatre School.

Alongside this classical foundation, I deepened my practice through numerous international workshops and festivals, including ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Janet Panetta International Dance Dialogues, Springboard Dance Montréal, and the American Dance Festival, studying a wide range of modern, contemporary, and somatic forms.

I hold a B.A. in Liberal Arts from The New School, Eugene Lang College, where I studied with Todd Williams, Ori Flomin, Rebecca Stenn, Danielle Goldman, and Orville Lee, and completed an Erasmus exchange at the University of Amsterdam (International School of Humanities and Social Sciences). I later earned a Master of Arts in Choreography / New Performative Practices from Stockholm University of the Arts, under the supervision of Anne Juren and Melanie Jame Wolf, and pursued Pre-Doctoral Studies in the PEERS Program for Emerging Artistic Researchers at the Zurich University of the Arts, with Thomas DeFrantz, VK Preston, and Friederike Lampert.

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Art Research Program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (die Angewandte), supervised by Bouchra Khalili. My research engages ballet pedagogy through the lenses of inheritance, perception, and the unfinished nature of technique.

Photo by Andrés Linares Pulido