Super Niche to Super for Everyone

I started making art when I had nothing else to do. I had graduated from college, worked as an Americorps volunteer, and left all expectations of what my life was going to be or supposed to be far behind. I grew up really religious and left religion and that left me searching, like one does.

I had no reason why I was doing it. I was drawn to make strange experimental movement pieces. Sometimes they made sense, but often they didn’t - not even to me. I’d work with dynamics that I thought were interesting and string them together to try and create a melody of sorts that were worthy of putting on stage. Performing physically came to me more naturally because as a kid I played sports. I then had a traumatic break from my upbringing and family (religious stuff) and didn’t know how to be. I processed this stuff through making art - not art that forced me to confront the sadness head on, but art that provided me some kind of catharsis. Over the years I’ve been processing this stuff and have reached a point where I can talk about it and so want to make art and produce projects that bring joy, community, connection and meaning — all the stuff I lost when I left my small religious community.