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"artist statement"

Manifestos. Belief statments. Discoveries in the form of statemnts. I don't like artist statements. They ask you to translate into words ideas that exist in other mediums and forms. They encourage you to commit to one way of being an artist - even if that one way is many ways. But once you've written it down, it's the everything of your art. There should be better ways to communicate your artistic intentions.

My discoveries are in the form of questions. I dance to experience myself. I make art to explore my interaction with the world. I ask questions to find more questions. I make art to decipher my questions.

I work from the body. I seek to create experience both artificial and genuine. I am excited by an architecture of performance in which space and time are explored with an audience in them.

I like to start from questions. Creating performances that decipher questions means starting with a vision of a response. Visual space, lived time. Building movement to carry us through the shaping of space and time.

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