Improvisation

Improvisation, to this day, is my favorite form of performance, and work. All of my dances began with improvisations, many, many improvisations, and through this I discovered it was incredibly labor intensive to source fresh material that felt completely authentic and honest and truthful. Even harder was the challenge of breaking the improvisation into material for a crafted dance. I learned from this process, to always return to the initial impulse, and this has applied in a broader brush stroke in life. I find myself going to initial impulses with my ancestral lineage, with spiritual lineages, and as the work shifts, I carry this forward with me. 

It is every dancers dream to dance for a big company if you have been trained by an institution of higher learning. 

In the time I was trained, it was conveyed that success meant working for a big company, or becoming a big name, and with time I realized this was a big fat lie and total "B-ll S-t". This attitude contributes to the paradigm currently coming apart at the seams, on some level, and my entire career was devoted to working as a visionary, and alchemist, and a healer to imagine and dream a different way, in that, this patriarchical, colonial, consumption with no ethics models, have brought the world to where it is now, with the survival of this species not at all guaranteed.