Something that captured its elegance and emotion.

Jeff Buckley’s voice has been a quiet thread through my life, from long childhood car rides with my dad to this past summer in Ballet BC’s studios, where I learned Marko Goecke’s Woke Up Blind, also set to Buckley. For my piece, Je n’en Connais Pas la Fin, instead of choreographing directly to the lyrics, I treated the score like a landscape, letting faint guitar repetitions, tonal shifts, and subtle counts guide me. I aimed to let movement emerge from the song’s atmosphere, using weight shifts, texture, and use of space, rather than its literal meaning. This piece carries a soft nostalgia that feels like watching my younger self fade gently in the distance, those long, unstructured summers, aimless bike rides, and days that stretched without responsibility.

Originally created as an audition piece, this act has morphed and evolved as I’ve adapted it for various performances including shows with Circus Bella, The Flying Royals, and People’s Circus Theater.

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.

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

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.

Tomorrow started off as a result of exiting the competitive dance world and leaning into my emerging love of film.

Billie Eilish is an artist whose emotions bleed out of her songs through her soft voice and lyrics. While her life was very different from mine, her lyrics still manage to touch me, which speaks to her ability to turn her experiences into means for art and connection.

This piece is part of my concept score for my science-fiction novel idea I've developed for a year.