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"We are transformed, individually, collectively, as we make radical creative space which affirms and sustains our subjectivity, which gives a new location from which to articulate our sense of the world."-bell hooks

"Here, the body itself is a script - or perhaps one should say a ceaseless inscribing instrument."
-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Graduated last December from a BFA in performance program at Naropa University where multicultural history, critical race theory, and post-colonial studies were combined with our training in dance, acting, and voice work. I am now living in Denver teaching dance improvisation, making music, and organizing community events. I am applying to the MFA in Dance at CU Boulder for Fall 08 to continue my work and training in Dance and multi media performance work. I am inspired by dance and music as community practice as well as performance. I am especially drawn to the liberatory potential of dance, the moving body, improvisational movement and the queer influences of freestyle dance. I am interested in the spaces in between, the spaces that are difficult to define or grasp. I enjoy the unstable zone where spiritual practice and critical cultural awareness rub up against each other in a sometimes juicy, sometimes uncomfortable dance, and sometimes both juicy and uncomfortable simultaneously. Is personal liberation truly possible without social consciousness, and engaged community? Is liberation a final destination or a journey, and life long process? What is the bodymind's role on the path?