SUB-LIMINAL

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a covert dancer. I secretly dance while swimming in my hometown’s public pool, on the back of the bus to Seattle, on a treadmill, in my seat watching your show. It is here that I find space for the extraordinary, the dance in the everyday. I crave a dance practice that manifests in the acentric and liminal spaces of the periphery, spreading dance beyond fixed points on stage.

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I claim the pool as my studio, the shoreline as my stage, and the passing fly as my dance partner. I chose the pool, shower, and ocean as spaces to study the circularity and ephemerality of remembering, the subconscious, and dreams. These spaces and contexts extend the possibility of who is a dancer, where dance exists, and how dance is shared. My goal as an artist is to invert the notion that dance is a spectacle to be witnessed from the outside looking in. I situate the audience inside the dance, inviting them to explore and be a part of both the experiencing and the making of the work.

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Most recently, swimming has become my artistic practice. It is teaching me how to rest in the landscapes of physical and mental thresholds, floating between water and air, moving between conscious and subconscious movements and memories. I use water as a visual and kinesthetic tool to reorient my audience and myself into fluid realities and logics.

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I created Sub-Liminal by developing scores—structures of objectives and choices—for both the dancer and the viewer to find freedom. So many experiences, ideas, pieces, and remembering have seeped into this work, many more than I can perceive at this moment. That is the goal of Sub-Liminal: to trust what is moving beneath the threshold, even when we are not looking.