Director’s Statement

We are allowed to reimagine the potential of dance.

I am deeply inspired by people and the stories we carry. My approach to directing seeks to inspire personal and collective evolution. Performers and our audiences may learn greater capacities for human empathy through craniosacral integration, political reflection, as well as research and performative education.

I aspire to expand my viewpoints and break from my own creative habits while guiding others to do the same. By honoring performers’ identities and abilities, the work stays open to intersectional collaboration. Evoking collective imagination, each of my projects is an opportunity to embody different ways of being together. I encourage groups to exhibit expression that is wholly themselves, while also welcoming them across the boundaries of their individual and communal capacities within performance.

As inspiration can be immediate, transportive, and demanding, part of my role is to maintain a flexible vision, employ patience, and implement somatic strategies for fine-tuned, process driven productions.

I hope to advance our culture incrementally closer to liberation by highlighting the spectrum that is the responsive and intersectional movement being.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

I am a cis gendered gay male, Pascua Yaqui Native American, a queer Mexican-American, and first in family to graduate from a university. As a descendant of matriarchal households, I am a dedicated ally to female identifying communities.

My communities include neurodivergent, non-binary, BIPOC, LGBTQ, economically challenged, people with health conditions or impairments, ESL, international, and binational students who cross the US-Mexico border daily. Making adaptations for inclusive literacy, I facilitate group work by always intending to honor and respect differences in physical ability, size, race, sexuality, religion, class, gender, family structure, and age in my dance work.

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. Projects may be centered around storytelling, and all are encouraged to create performances that express the diverse circumstances that make up their lives.