Statement
I am Black, movement based artist from the hot Texas heat, collard beans and cornbread, and large family gatherings on Sundays.
I use dance and audio description to create movement-based experiences for myself and the public. My work seeks to elevate new voices that exist on the intersections of race, gender, and disability; illuminate untold stories that are not often seen or felt on the concert stage; and decenter sight as dances’ primary mode of consumption.
My visual impairment has created unconventional challenges that have caused me to innovate my approach to the creative process. I feel and sense my way into it making my process less about what I see and more about the questions and curiosity I have at the time. My work is highly collaborative and includes artists of all disciplines--playwrights, actors, certified movement analysts, etc.--to extend my intersectional approach to dance making.
I’m deeply influenced by trailblazing Disabled artists like Alice Sheppard and Leroy Moore Jr. In and out of the creative process, I acknowledge that I am because we are.
And as of late, I’ve been imagining creating dance-less dances where audio descriptions and other access practices is the dance--- decentering movement.
Video Samples
Nearly Sighted
Bronx Academy of Art
1 min 15 sec
unearthing the dark
Gibney
2 min 54 sec
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