TEACHING

As a movement studio practitioner, I teach a highly rigorous contemporary hybrid movement practice, which includes improvisational structures and elements of the West African diaspora in a horizontal lineage connected to jazz dance. The goal of this practice is to bridge foundational elements considering the body, mind, spirit, music, and performance. As the instructor, I place emphasis on how the body moves rather than how it looks, highlighting individual expression and interpretation. My desire is to encourage the examination of identity, form, abstraction, time, polyrhythmic expression, duration, space, groundedness, dynamics, tension, and play.

I aim to guide each student through the development of their own artistic individuality, to spark curiosity, and to challenge the constructs of societal boundaries with embodied movement and critical thinking. Accessibility and inclusivity are at the forefront of my teaching, as I continue to adapt the language around what technique means and translates from and to the body. Exploring the constructs of what dance is and means involves considering all that is constantly shifting as we contemplate and discover what represents the foundations of movement.