Writing & Publications
My writing works at the intersection of embodied scholarship, performance studies, Black studies, and Indigenous studies. I bring these fields into conversation through the questions that emerge from my practice: how bodies carry and transmit knowledge, how performance gives form to memory, and how movement shapes our relationships to history and one another.
I approach embodied practice as a method of inquiry. Movement, sensation, and the encounter of performance inform how I think, what I ask, and how I write. The page gives me space to examine this knowledge, place it in dialogue with scholarship, and develop ideas that move between creative practice and critical thought.
Dance studies and Indigenous studies inform my attention to the body’s relationship to power, place, memory, and belonging. Working across these fields requires attention to their distinct histories and intellectual traditions, as well as the points where their questions meet. I am interested in what that dialogue makes possible for understanding performance, while remaining attentive to the differences and responsibilities it brings into view.
At the center of my work is Performance as Ceremony, a framework I continue to develop through choreography, research, and writing. Through it, I consider how performance carries cultural memory, establishes relationships, and creates possibilities for Indigenous futurity. Ceremony asks me to think carefully about what a performance does, whom it connects, and what responsibilities extend beyond the event itself.
Scholarly Writing
My scholarly writing brings critical theory into sustained dialogue with embodied experience. Drawing on performance studies, Black studies, and Indigenous studies, I examine how knowledge is produced through movement and how bodies negotiate the histories and structures that shape their lives.
My creative practice is integral to this research. The studio is a place where questions take form through repetition, attention, and experimentation. Writing allows me to follow those questions, examine their assumptions, and articulate their significance within broader scholarly conversations. This exchange between practice and theory shapes my ongoing development of Performance as Ceremony.
Artistic Writing
My artistic writing begins within the process of making. It follows the movements, images, relationships, and unresolved questions that give a work its form. These texts make space for aspects of practice that can be difficult to name in the moment: the significance of a gesture, a shift in attention, or the way an encounter changes the direction of a piece.
Writing helps me understand the choices I make and the responsibilities those choices carry. It is also a place to remain with uncertainty, allowing an idea to develop before asking it to become a settled argument. Through these reflections, I share how my work takes shape and how my understanding of performance as ceremonial and relational practice continues to change.
Talks & Lectures
My talks and lectures bring scholarship, performance, and embodied demonstration into a shared space of inquiry. I move between speaking and movement to explore how an idea can be understood through language, felt through the body, and reconsidered through discussion.
These presentations give me a way to share the research behind my practice while opening it to questions from others. They extend the conversation between the studio and the page, making room for collective reflection on embodiment, cultural memory, and the relationship between creative practice and critical thought.
Current Writing
My current writing continues to develop Performance as Ceremony within and across these intellectual traditions. I am exploring how choreography carries knowledge across generations, how ceremonial practice shapes the relationships within a performance, and how embodied research contributes to thinking about Indigenous futures.
Across this work, I return to the relationship between knowledge and responsibility: how I come to know something through practice, how I give that knowledge form, and what it means to share it with others.