As an artist, I’m interested in the intersection between individual identity and collective experience. Both my choreography and performance are informed by my life as a neurodivergent, trans, and queer individual; all of which is itself informed by the collective experience of individuals with those identities. To be trans is to be threatened; to be neurodivergent is to be disregarded. These experiences influence every aspect of my life, dance included. As a choreographer, I seek to explore this intersection between identity and experience by dancing at the edge of what is safe and what is allowable. My movement exists in a perpetual state of falling, same as my life. I use this sense of falling to allow the audience a peek into the discomfort that exists within all experiences; to give them a safe space to feel unsafe. I ask of the audience the same as I ask of my dancers: “allow yourself to feel uncomfortable and unsafe, but do not separate that feeling from your individual identity or lived experiences; nothing is irrelevant.”