I didn’t know I was going to be a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker; it was a desire. It all started in theatre. I couldn’t speak English so I started with mime and movement. The dream was to dance but I always thought I was too late. By the time I went to dance school I was 24, so I had to catch up with everyone else. Once you put your mind to it, even if you break something, you go ahead and do it.
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It was a surreal and full-circle moment because as a little girl, and a little girl of color, the pinnacle was always dancing for the Ailey company…. Then coming back and now teaching the company, running rehearsals, and setting choreography on the company and some dancers that I have been idolizing since I was a young girl… I had to really get my nerves together the first time I walked into the room because it was just unbelievable. The goal was to get in the room with them not knowing that I would be at the front of the room.
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The goal is to allow photographers and dancers, alike, to feel comfortable communicating in a movement language that can easily be understood by one another.
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