I feel as though I am channeling all the people I've worked with here and all the material that is seeping out is an homage to this place. You are the place in which you live, it seeps into you, oozes out of you. I am Iowa and all the people I know and love are this dance. I am saying that you are heard, you are a part of me, a part of this dance. You have ownership. Will showings reinforce that? It takes a village and this village is reflected in my work.
Gestures resonate with me. They have meaning even if I can't identify what that meaning is. It is visceral, the physicality is my song. What needs to pour out? The gestures, they speak, they say something, mean something, they are my voice.
I love making on my own body. I love discovering what it has to say. I love dropping into moving, getting lost in breath.
Feeling feet on the floor.
Feeling weight in my bones.
Rolling and pouring.
Widening.
I am not alone in this room. Everyone I have ever danced with is here with me. I am filtering them through me.
Gestures resonate with me. They have meaning even if I can't identify what that meaning is. It is visceral, the physicality is my song. What needs to pour out? The gestures, they speak, they say something, mean something, they are my voice.
I love making on my own body. I love discovering what it has to say. I love dropping into moving, getting lost in breath.
Feeling feet on the floor.
Feeling weight in my bones.
Rolling and pouring.
Widening.
I am not alone in this room. Everyone I have ever danced with is here with me. I am filtering them through me.