Choroegrapher's Statement

The driving force behind my work is the desire to reveal. To reveal ourselves to ourselves while allowing the work to reveal itself. There is a lot of intuition involved in my creative process, and I want to awaken the intuition in the performers and witnesses of the piece. A work is successful to me if people recognize something of their gut, their heart or their mind in it.

I display psychological concepts through the body. I like intensity. I like to create environments, playing with the strikingly surreal familiar. I want my work to look a bit like a dream. I use the movement of energy as inspiration, technique, and support. Music is hugely important to me. I like the audience to be vibrated by the sounds.

I am inspired by our myths, archetypes, and collective patterns. They bind us: they are our common denominators. The oldest stories are the newest ones. Popular culture is now the house of our myths; performance, television, comic strips, books, Internet and movies are the storytellers.

I want to immerse the audience in an experience and shift their perception, if only for a moment. Our culture encourages living in the past, nostalgic and regretful- or the in future, busy with planning, scheming and analyzing. I try to put myself, other performers and audience members in situations that draw attention to the present.

I love to collaborate. I learn so much from going through a creative process with other people. I consider myself very lucky to have worked and be working with the artists that I have.