As I create Moving Works, I am deeply influenced by people and the stories we carry. When I lead groups, I aspire to evoke collective imagination, diverse abilities, and personal experiences. I utilize my training in craniosacral therapy to enhance listening, body-to-body communication, and interdisciplinary processes.

Each dance work uniquely excavates choreography from a matrix of sources. Writing, sketching, and watercolor help cultivate and externalize internal worlds. Literature, art history, cinema, music, news and politics provide additional narratives, imagery, sounds, and real world implications to explore. I trust dancers and our audiences to embody new ways of being together as they nuance their neural pathways for compassionate interrelationship.

I currently draw from durational frameworks learned at the Marina Abramović Institute in Greece in June 2024. As I research “What do we endure? How do we endure?” I can not help but think of my ancestors who are indigenous to the Sonora Desert that traverses the US-México border region. I grew up hearing my elders say, “We did not cross the border, the border crossed us.” Realizing that I am alive and thriving today only because of generations of my family’s survival, I am determined to continue evolving through dancemaking and performance. I always seek to expand my viewpoints and diversify my creative process.

D I V E R S I T Y & I N C L U S I O N

My artistic communities include people who are indigenous, womxn, neurodiverse, BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, non-binary, economically challenged, people with health conditions or impairments, ESL, international, and binational students who cross the US-Mexico border daily. 

I facilitate group artmaking by always intending to honor and respect differences in physical ability, language ability, size, race, sexuality, religion, class, gender, family structure, and age.

To cultivate sensitivity within intersectional groups, I hold talking circles where participants have opportunities to share their experiences and reflect on one another’s opinions. Creativity may be centered around storytelling, and all cultures are encouraged to create performances that express the diverse circumstances that make up their lives.

Finally, I am a two-spirit queer person, Pascua Yaqui Native American, Mexican-American, and other intersectional social identities. My worldview has been shaped as a descendant of matriarchal households, and I am a dedicated ally to female identifying communities.