Artist Statement: As a dance artist, I locate my work at the intersection of visual art and dance. Through the creation of live performance for non-traditional settings, films and installations, I endeavor to broaden the medium of dance and what it can communicate. My work is heavily based on research outside of the dance studio; inquiry into a particular site, a historical figure or event, natural phenomena and scientific discovery have all lead to precise conceptual frameworks out of which movement evolves. The dance, then, is a kind of embodiment of these facts. Cognitive science has discovered that we understand the world through our bodily experience of it—that thinking is not just done with our brains but with our bodies. My work aims to highlight the intelligence of that moving body and examine the complexity and interconnectedness of our world and experience.