Resiliencia
Choreography · Performance · Embodied Expression
Resiliencia is a choreographic work centred on resilience, embodied expression and the ways the body responds, adapts and continues.
Artistic Practice
Choreography, Performance & Carnival
Where movement becomes a way of telling, remembering and imagining.
My artistic practice sits at the intersection of movement, cultural memory, research and contemporary Black diasporic experience.
For more than 20 years, dance has been one of the ways through which I learn, create, communicate and connect.
Over the past years, my practice has increasingly moved toward research, writing and cultural knowledge production. At the same time, I continue to develop ways of bringing this knowledge back into artistic creation through choreography, performance, Carnival and moving image.
I am interested in creating work where movement, image, sound and cultural context come together to tell stories that do not always exist in words.
An Evolving Artistic Practice
My artistic practice is not fixed to one format.
It can take the form of a choreographic work, a performance, a dance film, a visual concept, a Carnival intervention or a collaboration.
I draw from African and Afro-Caribbean movement practices, social dances, embodied storytelling and contemporary forms to create work connected to culture, memory, identity and lived experience.
My recent years of research and cultural immersion have also opened new artistic questions about how cultural knowledge can be translated into images, movement, sound and contemporary storytelling.
Dance & Moving Image
I am increasingly interested in the relationship between dance and moving image.
Dance films and video-based work allow me to work with movement beyond the stage, playing with camera, editing, landscape, sound, rhythm, proximity and visual storytelling.
This is an area I am developing further as my artistic practice enters a new phase of creation.
Carnival
- Carnival remains an important part of my artistic and cultural practice.
- I approach Carnival as a space where movement, music, costume, history, identity, community, resistance and joy come together.
- My engagement with Caribbean Carnival has also become a form of artistic learning: participating, observing, dancing, documenting and understanding cultural practices from within their living contexts.
- This work continues to feed my artistic practice, research and writing.
Selected Work
What's Next
My artistic practice is entering a new phase.
Alongside my ongoing research and writing, I am developing new ideas around dance film, moving image, choreography and interdisciplinary storytelling.
With my journey to the UK, I will join a cohort for three years of research focused on Black dances, it will further support this development, creating space to deepen the relationship between artistic practice, research and contemporary Black dance.
This next chapter is about bringing movement and knowledge back into creation, through new images, new collaborations and new ways of telling stories through the body.
