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“It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”

STUDS TERKEL — WORKING XI
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My Story

What is one thing about your work that most people don't know?

Although people assume that being a professional dancer is rigorous. I think for most, there is a misconception of the level of physical, mental, and emotional effort that actually exists in sustaining as a dancer. Dancer's are also professional mutli-taskers. Having to be good at multiple skills and jobs in order to create a living for themselves.

What makes you most proud of the work you do?

I am most proud that as a dancer and choreographer, I am able to inspire others through my most authentic medium of body and mind. I love challenging people's thoughts and perceptions of the world and themselves through my abilities to arrange movement vocabulary and expression.To create something for others to have a higher understanding or experience of something for even a moment in time so that they can walk away with a bit of their own magic and empowerment, is what I live and "work" for.