Tracing. imprinting. being.

For my thesis, I performed three separate works comprised of a trio with Angella Betina Carlos and Arianna Russ, a solo performed by me, and another trio with Lovar Davis Kidd and Alvon Reed. The main concept of my research was to enrich my artistic voice by challenging myself with new and innovative methods of performance and choreography.

My first trio with Carlos and Russ was choreographed by Hanna Brictson who is a choreographer based in Chicago. The three of us wanted this work to be a collaboration that highlighted our strengths as female dancers using contemporary movement vocabulary as the base of our choreography.

Marc Macaranas is a MFA graduate student in the dance department who set a solo work on me that consisted of contemporary dance movement vocabulary. The choreography was a blend of his ideas in collaboration with my interpretation of his movement to create a solo that described me as an artist. My main objective for this work was how I transitioned from one movement sequence to the next.

My second trio was with Kidd and Reed who are local artists in the Cedar Rapids community. The choreography was a collaboration of our experiences with hip hop movement to make a meaningful storyline. My goal for this work was to find my voice as a collaborator in the hip hop community.