My work is abstract, and noted for its poly-attentiveness. I embrace a fast and flexible approach with more than one thing going on at a time, which allows each audience member the opportunity to experience freedom of individual perception. My choreography is heavily influenced by the years I spent in New York City dancing with Dan Wagoner, where I was introduced to two primary influences: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor. Like Cunningham, my choreography contains neither plot nor linear progression. Instead I utilize chance structure, a choreographic process that embraces disjunctive ordering as its guiding principle. As with Taylor, music plays a significant role in my work. While music in dance is conventionally used as emotional, intellectual and rhythmic accompaniment, in my dance I weave the choreography into the musical accompaniment as if it were an additional instrument.
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