ABOUT
Belonging. Care. Devotion. Memory. Experimentation. Relationship. Ceremony. Ecological Embodiment.
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I am a choreographer, herbalist, writer, ritualist, and educator crafting transformative, interdisciplinary ritual experiences at the intersections of performance, ecology, and embodiment. My work is not simply a hybrid of art and science—it is a new methodology of performance that fuses movement, ecological storytelling, and somatic research to spark spiritual and societal transformation.
Rooted in dance and stretching across disciplines—neuroscience, quantum physics, folk herbalism, oral tradition, psychology, and mythopoetics—my work creates what I call performance ecosystems: dynamic, co-created environments where audience and performer dissolve into shared presence. These ecosystems are grounded in years-long collaborations with scientists, philosophers, and artists across fields, particularly in ecological and neurological research. Together, we design experiments in performance that explore altered consciousness, time perception, and embodied cognition—redefining how we understand healing, memory, and belonging.
Whether through evening-length works, immersive installations, long-form social practice, or embodied workshops, each offering is a living inquiry: a ritual experiment designed to ask urgent questions, cultivate emotional and somatic healing, and reimagine how we live with one another—and with the earth.
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CHOREOGRAPHY AS A WAY OF BEING
For me, movement is not just choreography—it is a technology. It is the language of presence, the pulse of the living world made visible through the body. I use the body as a site of inquiry into the space between, provoking our communal ability to sense the invisible intersections that exit between all beings: between bodies and landscapes, memory and imagination, intellect and intuition, the known and the forgotten, the stories we tell and the ones told to or about us. Through this practice, I facilitate states of consciousness rooted in somatic intelligence and relational awareness—spaces that serve as sanctuaries of healing for performers, participants, and audiences alike.
I create immersive performance ecosystems that invite anyone, regardless of prior training, into a deeper relationship with their own embodied story—and into the stories that emerge when bodies move and listen together. These spaces are designed to nurture emotional, mental, and physical cohesion, and to affirm a radical sense of belonging: in body, in community, and in place.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & ECOLOGICAL STORYTELLING
At the heart of my practice is a deep commitment to long-term, cross-disciplinary collaboration. I view performance as a living archive—a research method that brings together voices from dance, science, ecology, and ritual. My collaborators include neuroscientists, marine biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, quantum physicists, sculptors, and architects, among others. These dialogues have shaped a body of work that is both rigorously experimental and deeply relational, always in conversation with the natural world and our place within it.
My ongoing project Crucible Body—a multi-year interdisciplinary ritual-performance—has brought me into collaboration with neurologists, psychologists, archaeologists, and survivors of sexual violence. Merging herbalism, embodied storytelling, and archival research, this work explores trauma, healing, and resilience, offering tools for communal transformation through dance and plant medicine.
These projects are not about representation—they are about co-creation, about building new languages for understanding ourselves and the ecosystems we inhabit.
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RITUAL & ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE
Trained in the earth-based, matrilineal ritual and herbal traditions of my Eastern European and Balkan ancestors, I carry forward these practices not as fixed traditions but as living, adaptive tools for contemporary transformation. Themes of devotion, altered consciousness, time, and healing inform both my ritual facilitation and my performance environments. Each offering is an invocation—a site where the mythic and the physical meet to invite deep, embodied change.
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PERFORMANCE AS MEDICINE
Every performance I create begins with a simple, radical question: What is the medicine we most need right now? This question anchors my collaborations, whether with dancers, scientists, composers, or community members. By rooting the creative process in care and listening, I build performances from the inside out—shaped by the ecology of each unique group and the questions we carry.
The result is performance as a medicinal practice: a space where embodiment becomes a source of healing, inquiry, and collective renewal.
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COMMUNITY AS METHOD
Inspired by the Social Sculpture movement and the Theater of the Oppressed, I approach movement as a tool for social change. My work is not only about community—it is made with community. Each project is designed to create material, emotional, and ecological impact. Movement becomes a form of activism, a means of building relationship and reshaping the world together.
My work lives at the intersection of art and inquiry, ritual and research, body and ecology. I believe that by creating new methods of interdisciplinary performance, we can catalyze deep change: in ourselves, our communities, and the ecosystems we are a part of.