Art as a thing that makes us human, and movement is a thing that moves us.

In my artwork and for myself, I believe in de-industrializing artmaking, creating only what I feel is healing, necessary, or joy-filling to me. I believe that the individualism, elitism, and profit that influences the artistic world through capitalism depletes the spirituality innate to dance, and I hope to interrogate my entanglement in artistic/dance colonization and untangle myself and my community where I feel I can.

I believe artists should make a living wage without other work, and also that art should be free, and also that creation should not be forced for survival. I believe in Universal Basic Income (UBI) for artists, as well as for people of any profession that does not generate income traditionally, and for people of any way of life who need extra support to exist and thrive.

I believe that leisure - the empty space to fill or not fill with whatever we like - is a human right denied by capitalism, and that everyone deserves the time and space to wait for ideas to come.

I believe that joy-filled movement and artistic outlets are part of an essential healthcare and education.

I believe, for myself and my movement, in returning to the human-ness of dance, and making the dance in my life less about hierarchy and ability and more about sharing with community and processing somatically the phenomena of being human.