Q: Do you believe dance can be a platform for social justice topics? If so, how? and/or Have you used your art form to make a difference?

...I feel dance is constantly transcending its own boundaries and responding to the urgent questions and issues of the moment. I think Black and Brown dances are the most pervasively afflicted by issues of oppression in the U.S. and I see this work a lot from those who have experienced it...

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Q: Using the idea of “worldmaking” how do you imagine the performing arts world after the pandemic? (Worldmaking: How you can re-imagine the world in your own terms, the way you want it to be. Using this tool one can construct new worlds and write themselves into narratives that have excluded them and systems that have disabled them.)

The level of responsiveness from the individual and freelance artist community has been urgent and informed and charged and non-stop, and I think routinely with institutions and even employers of dancers, there is a divide in the understanding of how much we are valued. I think moving forward it is the continued operation that the artist centered ethos. The collective body of people need to inform the decisions on a much deeper level. I feel this model needs to be in the wider culture.