Born and raised in Florida on sugar-sand beaches, I am passionate about bringing dance out of the proscenium and back into the wild, with and for people of all ages & abilities. My creative works are riddled with amicable contradictions, reveling in their polarities and bridging together visual arts, music, and poetry.

I earned my MFA in Performance and Choreography from Florida State University and BA in Writing with an Applied Dance minor from the University of Tampa. I drank from the well of modern dance history as an independent study student at The Ailey School in NYC, training under the auspices of Ana Marie Forsythe, Carolyn Adams, and Joan Peters. In 2018, I studied under Anne Green Gilbert at the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers in Brain Compatible Dance Education in Seattle, WA. Gilbert has been my guidepost as an educator. My pedagogy builds on her brain compatible dance curriculum to emphasize creativity and strengthening mind-body connections in the classroom.

 While working as a freelance artist in Atlanta, I founded my creative dance company, Poetica, which intersects contemporary dance and poetry. Poetica hosts a weekly community dance class in Tampa’s Waterworks Park and has premiered site-specific choreographies across the southeast.

I attempt to wrangle and coax this ephemeral form into stories, and have published work in the Tallahassee Democrat, Creative Pinellas’ Arts Coast Journal, DIYdancer Magazine, ArtsATL, The Dancer-Citizen Journal and The Autoethnographer Literary & Arts Magazine, and the National Dance Education Organization’s Dance Education in Practice.