One year ago, in the early morning hours of Sunday, October 27th, my dad took his last breath. It still doesn't feel real. I still can't believe he's gone. I feel his loss everyday like a part of me is missing. But in his honor and memory, I share the words I spoke at his [...]
Category: experience & reflection
movement journal | february 12, 2025
https://youtu.be/bVfrG9QOflk?si=khOpcmcMXw7QQgL5 [unedited] For us, as human beings, the one connecting thread, the one through-line of it all, is the human form, our human form, our bodies. The conduit through which each of us senses and experiences – the world outside of us and the world inside of us. The receiver through which each of us [...]
Saturday, February 8, 2025 | In response to the new administration’s plans for The Kennedy Center
The Work of Art is to expose truths – often hard truths. To embody and embolden hidden realities – undeniable realities – of our cultures, our histories, our injustices, our resistances, our prevailing strengths, our joys, our excitements, and our celebrations - the realities of what it is to exist on this planet in the [...]
movement journal | january 22, 2025
https://youtu.be/AN3wqu0vlCQ [unedited] For years now, I have been trying to untrain myself. But I didn’t realize at first that that’s what I was doing. This coming September marks my 40th year of “trained” dancing. Of course, we know those first years aren’t necessarily training. But they are. They’re the early stages of immersion. They’re indoctrination. [...]
Monday, April 20, 2020 | It comes in waves…
I can't help but think about the physical loss we are all experiencing & just how vastly different many of our coping strategies are. Some of us are sharing & posting more on social media. Some have dug deeply into our work. Some have spent our days making those previously rare phone calls, texts & [...]
Miles Davis was right…
Miles Davis said, "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself." Sound. Think, move, look, talk, act, BE... Amy Poehler talks about how "it takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. To find your voice and seize your real estate." It has [...]
