A thread runs through my work: movement as a way of thinking, feeling, and reshaping experience.
Photography by Boris Cherykov
Writing is where I pause with the body, translating what emerges in the studio into language. These texts are research, but also stories of how paradox lives in us — grief alongside desire, chaos alongside clarity.
Growing a New Body
Growing a New Body: Physicalizing the Paradoxical Systems of Grief and Desire
(MFA Thesis, University of Utah, 2019)
This thesis examines the intersection of grief and desire in the body, resulting in states that defy separation and instead generate novel forms of movement. It is both scholarship and lived experience — a practice-based, poetic inquiry into how loss and longing shape expression.
naftali method
This current research builds upon my graduate work, shifting from overlapping body states to overlapping tasks. The naftali method asks what happens when the body is asked to hold multiple demands at once, and how chaos itself can become a place of balance, agility, and new presence. This work is ongoing, involving classes, rehearsals, and performances — writing will follow in due time.