This artwork “Silk and Steel” perfectly sums up the dual nature of this choreography: Silk = The smooth, flowing, easy-looking surface of the performance: arms sweeping, body flowing, looks effortless.

This peice is the internal conflict of growing up dancing cultural traditional dances and the contradiction that I feel when I try to train technically in ballet.

Life is not easy, and whenever I have a bad day at school, I go home, turn on some music, and just dance.

When creating this piece, I was most inspired by the collaboration of my team.

Uncertainties are everywhere in life.

I wanted to bring out the fierce energy of this song, and the artist, Tate McRae inspires me completely.

My dance “JUST KEEP WATCHING” holds a message for artists and audiences to trust the process whenever something seems off or unnerving.

My choreography, The Twelfth of Never, is inspired by living with a parent who has muscular dystrophy.

This choreography was created to the song “That Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra.

This piece is inspired by how easily we forget to live in the moment.

Confronting the past can be difficult, but growth often happens in those uncomfortable moments.

Me and the devil is a battle about conflicting realities with yourself and society.

The creation of this piece began with searching for the right song.

Dance is my unique way of expressing the way of belonging.

Kata Rokkar was a self choreographed solo, with inspiration taken from dance styles like whacking, samba, African dance and jazz/contemporary fusion. In the Summer of 2024, I partially tore my ACL and was unable to dance for the entire first half of the season. When I fully healed the following summer, I took inspiration from the physical and emotional journey during my recovery time, and translated that into the movement and storytelling in my solo. The feelings I tried to convey were my burning desire to get back on the stage, and to finally dance full out again.

In this Dance, I stepped out of my comfort zone and took risks with my choreography, it had been so long since I’ve done contemporary because of my passion for Hip-Hop Dance.

I need to be strong. I need to be charismatic.

What does it mean to perform? Throughout American pop culture, countless elements have been borrowed from other cultures and reshaped to fit mainstream taste.

This piece is called “Drive Far”, a hip-hop heels fusion choreography I created to showcase confident sexuality.

I created Macbeth in Motion because I wanted people to see that juggling can be a form of dance, even if it’s not what they’re used to watching.