Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

As an artist and researcher, I create choreographies across a range of media and formats that explore the ephemeral nature of physical boundaries – particularly regarding the dynamic edges between bodies, and the spaces in which they come together. Beyond the idea of animal mimicry, I have been developing a choreographic research body that reconfigures the phenomenon of “camouflage” as a spatial act: a process through which the self is negotiated in and through space – processes that are intrinsic to choreography as well.

In an ongoing series entitled Correspondance, I explore the multifaceted phenomenon of camouflage as it blends with my choreographic practice. Correspondance is a play on words conjoining “correspondence” (in the sense of resemblance; resonance) and “dance”. Preoccupied with notions of thresholds, the series seeks to employ dance and movement to probe and rethink edges between bodies and across media-specific boundaries, as well as explore the animate relationalities between human and non-human subjectivities, in order to interrogate new possibilities for configuring our bodies otherwise.

While at Headlands

During my residency, I will continue developing my ongoing practice-based research on the phenomenon of camouflage in dialogue with bodies of knowledge from a trans-disciplinary web of fields, including ecology, zoology, anthropology, philosophy, queer and feminist theory, performance studies, and indigenous cosmologies. I reconfigure camouflage as both a performance strategy and conceptual framework to probe other ways of being-in-space, as well as tackle questions of embodiment and environment, tensions between (in)visibility and human and non-human subjectivities through my multi-media, choreographic practice. Given that camouflage also remains an intriguing trivia question of military history and that Headlands is located within former army barracks in the Marin Headlands, I will conduct both theoretical and movement-based research through ecological dance practice to rehearse the multiple ways that camouflage can spark new realities that are inherently changeable— enabling another kind of “here-ness” where bodies become Other and reproduce altered corpo-realities with a difference.