METHODOLOGY

As an artist and somatic practitioner, I make work in conversation with the living world — with the histories carried in land and body, with the currents of change that move through communities. Each project begins as an act of listening, and grows through collaboration, ritual, and the slow work of tending relationships. What follows is the ground my practice stands on, and the ways it moves.

ROOTS & LINEAGES

My work begins with questions — how movement can open a doorway to what has been buried, how the body remembers its belonging to the Earth, how art can help us repair and reimagine our relationships. I enter each project through listening: to the land and waters, to those who have tended them, to the layered and often invisible histories beneath the surface. From this listening, forms take shape — sometimes as slow, steady growth, sometimes as sudden arrival — shaped by shared vision and the meeting of differences.

I am rooted in and influenced by:

  • movement artists, filmmakers, musicians, and ritualists — especially Peter and Maria Schumann and the Bread and Puppet Theater, Larry Gordon and Village Harmony, and the lineage of Anna Halprin’s Tamalpa Life/Art Process

  • my lifelong experience as a singer in Balkan folk traditions, and the ways communal song carries collective memory

  • elders, peers, and collaborators whose work bridges disciplines

  • traditional ecological knowledge and decolonial frameworks

  • the intelligence of forests, shorelines, rivers, and shifting seasons

  • communities carrying interwoven stories of resilience, grief, and return

APPROACH

Each project is a conversation — between body and place, between collaborators, between what is known and what is still forming. I begin with immersion: walking the land, tending its edges, listening, researching, and noticing patterns over time. Improvisation threads through this process, allowing the unexpected to enter and reshape the work.

What emerges is held by practices such as:

  • somatic movement and expressive arts

  • improvisation in movement, voice, and visual form

  • integrating song as a connective tissue in performance and ritual

  • reading, writing, and embodied research

  • deep observation of seasonal and ecological cycles

  • collaboration across art, science, and community organizing

  • rituals that hold grief, joy, and transformation

  • sustained encounters with the more-than-human world

PLACE

My work lives at the meeting point of art, ecology, and cultural practice. It grows in landscapes and communities willing to be in exchange, where relationships are as important as the final form.

Projects often seed and evolve via:

  • artist residencies and community laboratories

  • conservation lands, farms, and gardens

  • public spaces reclaimed for collective use

  • sites of ecological fragility or renewal

  • intercultural gatherings centered on ritual and creative exchange

  • rural and in-between places that hold layered histories — including my home in Vermont’s forested hills, on land bordering thousands of acres of preserved wild

FORM

Some works are momentary gestures, others leave traces that become part of a place’s ongoing story. The form follows what the land, the community, and the moment call for.

These expressions may appear as:

  • site-responsive performances and movement scores

  • gatherings woven from ritual, art, and conversation

  • seasonal workshops and collective dances, including planetary dance facilitation in the lineage of Anna Halprin

  • films, soundworks, and visual installations that carry the texture of place

  • essays and poetic archives of body–land dialogue

COMMITMENTS

We live in a time that asks us to mourn what is being lost, to tend what can still be repaired, and to dream what might yet be possible. I believe beauty can nourish and sustain the courage needed for change.

This work is a commitment to:

  • meeting ecological collapse with care, creativity, and truth-telling

  • restoring a felt sense of kinship with land, waters, and other beings

  • building collaborations across disciplines, cultures, and generations

  • creating rituals that help us grieve and reckon with injustice

  • fostering networks of care that honor difference and reciprocity

  • making art that deepens our connection to the living world