I’m a dance artist from California, now based in New York City. I hold a B.A. in Dance from San Diego State University and an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Utah. My work explores the intersections of multitasking, effort, and agility—ways the body can expand its expressive range through sensitivity and precision.

My practice is rooted in years of training in Gaga and contact improvisation, as well as international experiences within improvisation communities that continue to shape how I move, create, and share. These experiences led to the creation of the naftali method, an improvisational dance practice that merges speed and softness into a single embodied experience. The method invites dancers to develop their own movement language while cultivating a sustainable relationship to responsiveness and velocity. I’ve shared this practice at San Diego Dance Theatre’s Summer Intensive, Movement and Dance Weekend at Nazareth University, and Films that Move Residency, and now offer it through master classes in New York City.

As an educator, I approach technique as a dialogue between structure and freedom—a continuous exchange between form and curiosity. My classes require rigor, awareness, and presence, creating a space for risk and refinement to coexist. I’ve developed university-level courses such as Israeli Contemporary Dance and Physicalizing Feminism: Using the Creative Process to Embody Theory, and restructured Introduction to Dance, which continues to be used by Lecturers. In the charter-school setting, I designed a trimester-based, culturally responsive dance curriculum for over 260 K–3 students. I currently teach freshman dancers at Title 1 Charter High School in Brooklyn, integrating cultural and communal dance forms with dance appreciation.

My choreographic work has been presented across the U.S., Mexico, and Israel. In 2024, I was commissioned by SISU Compañía de Danza to create Quietude, an evening-length work for the Tránsito Festival at CECUT, also presented by Vanguard Culture in San Diego. I also premiered my solo Gentleness in Israel, later performing it at San Diego State University and Nazareth University.

In New York, my focus continues to center around the naftali method, teaching, and performance as living research. I perform with ImPort Dance Sessions under the artistic direction of Michal Ben Lior, first in Israel and now in New York City, while continuing to train at Gibney, Peridance, and in the contact improvisation jams in Soho.