I am a multidisciplinary artist (Gaelic, Sicilian heritage) whose work is rooted in community-engaged arts, somatics, ecology, and queer activism.  I work as a choreographer, dancer, teacher, improviser, circus artist, writer, film producer, and installation artist in London Ontario.   My artistic practice engages improvisation, ritual, imagination, and collective score-making as tools for imagining emergent worlds. I am involved in a decade-long artistic collective, ‘Sweet Labour Art Collective’  working across settler and Oneida Nation worlds.  Over the last 15 years I have also worked with NAKA dance in Oakland, Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, and most recently on a project called TRY with Circo Zero.  I hold a degree in ecology from the University of British Columbia, a diploma from the National Circus School of Montreal, an MFA in choreography, and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California Davis where I researched community engaged art as a method to study emerging science studies on fascia.  In 2021-2022 I taught for one year in a limited term assistant professor position in dance at Concordia University.  Currently I am working with the Sweet Labour Art on a project called Togethering: Improvisation as a Practice of Care, with care workers and the disability community that will open at Museum London in June 2023.

Specialism: Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Creative Labs, Dance, Fascia, Somatic