I began making site-specific work in graduate school-in galleries, schools, and outside. I immediately felt my attraction to making dances in this way. The process reinforced my naturalistic sensibilities and deepened my desire to understand the full potential of an environment in which dance exists. Each site is a unique challenge that invites my creativity to flourish and requires a reorganization of the initial visual perception of that environment. I invest in the movement vocabularies that emerge in response to the elements. 

• 2011, She lived it there, commissioned by Dance Truck  

• 2011 Vessel (a happening), Questions to ask a river or a creek 

• 2012 Bend (Toccoa River, Lake Oconee) 

• 2014 Unfold, Eyedrum gallery for the Hymhouse project   

• 2014 Disrupt, Healey Building, Atlanta, GA, presented by CORE EDGE, Art in Unexpected Places  

• 2020 Capacity, Emory Dance Company 

• 2020 Spill, Emory Dance Company 

In 2018, I informally created D.I.R.T. (Dance in Real Time). This is an on-going practice of site-specific improvisational performance. The process manifests in collaboration with other moving artists. The ongoing, open-ended prompt is to discover and embody the relatedness of textural and architectural elements in time and space and strengthen connections to the natural world by exploring how we inhabit familiar or uninhabited spaces. The process allows our inner landscape to be creative with an environment. We embody the relatedness of matter, energy, time, and space and gain untapped resources to sense and know each other in this context.  

• 2018 with Anna Leo, Emory colleague and friend 

• 2019 with Dafi Altabeb, Israeli guest Artist