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Formal dance training came much later in my life. In experiencing its formality, I have occupied space (many times simultaneously) as student of dance, performer, interpreter and now dance maker. After having trained for over a decade in a form steeped in a history of erasure, marginalization and appropriation, I feel compelled to deeply consider the implications of my positioning as a privileged body occupying this space.

Many questions, curiosities, disconnections and negotiations later, today I find myself standing in its essence as a loud and proud queer person, slowly finding my voice in its gift. As I continue to learn and to unlearn, as I make peace with its complexity and find new ways to be present with it, I find myself drawn to making work that celebrates explicit erotic sensuality through my queer body and experience, taking power away from privileged conditioning of shame, taboo and exclusion around the queer body through heteronormative lenses of “morality”, “decency” and “dignity”.