I believe in getting to know my students. In a place like New York City, it is so refreshing to enter a space where people can count on moving, laughing, and being challenged amid familiar faces. I encourage a warm, friendly classroom community where people feel comfortable taking risks and pushing themselves to their own outer limits. I like to give the kind of class that leaves an afterglow—that feeling, moving from studio to street, that anything is possible.

Class is not about me; I provide students with continuous feedback, vivid images, and dynamic, inspiring movement of varied styles. I am committed to discovering the verbal and tactile cues that will benefit students of all levels, and I am constantly developing new strategies to push my students forward.

My classes are structured with forethought. I use backwards design, tailoring my warm-up and across the floor combinations to prepare students for a larger, culminating phrase. In addition to priming the muscle groups necessary to safely accomplish the movement, I have found that this design promotes fuller artistic expression.

I advocate clean technique, with an emphasis on dynamic alignment and clear pathways of movement. Engaging a movement vocabulary that is at once aggressive, sensuous, virtuostic, and spirited, a solid technical foundation is crucial. I teach with a strong kinesiological understanding, helping students of diverse body structures to reach their maximum potential.

I encourage students to try something new in every class. Growth springs not from stagnation, but from change. My classroom is a laboratory--a place where focus, energy, momentum, and phrasing can be explored within the structure of an exercise. Learning a sequence of movement is one task. Infusing that sequence with motivation and life is another. My ultimate hope is that the students I teach will find their own voices.