Be .
This thesis explores how a choreographer can create an effortless method and positive community for the self with the creative process through research and my personal experience creating a dance called Be . The method involves three yoga techniques, self-acceptance, trusting the process, and gratitude for others for the choreographer to self-explore and apply to find a balanced relationship between dancers and choreographer and full creative capacity.
Absence is Presence
Absence Is Presence examines how what is missing can hold as much weight as what remains—an exploration of antipodal forces where distance, opposition, and contradiction become a powerful form of presence.
Apparatus
Apparatus is a contemporary dance work built on the logic of machinery. The dancers function as interlocking wheels—grooved, precise, and dependent on one another—moving through repetition, resistance, and momentum. The choreography examines what happens when bodies operate as systems: efficient, relentless, and only able to function through contact.