While a dancer’s abilities on stage are breathtaking and beautiful, there is a part of the dancer that is never revealed directly to the audience; dancers use their bodies to form dynamic visual images on stage, but there is another, more private level of interaction between dancers and their personal settings.

Dancers are programmed for movement. The unique, strenuous training of dancers reveals itself subconsciously through everyday activity - how a dancer stands, how she reaches for an object, and how she walks down the street are all products of how she has been taught to navigate space. These abilities manifest themselves so subtly that most dancers don’t even realize that they are stretching, practicing, and dancing their way through life.

My recent body of photographs explores this relationship in dancers between everyday activity and programmed movement. In my images, I reveal the relationships dancers create with their personal environments. Through the theme of mundane, daily activities, I examine how dancers approach routine tasks in a manner that is different than the average person. These interactions with domestic environments become miniature studies of how a dancer’s passion for performance blends with everyday life.