32 | BOROMAG.COM | DECEMBER 2013 THE ARTS I started dancing because my mother is a dancer. I was the baby in the studio, so I was there before I even could dance. I would take classes and then hang out the rest of the time. It was a second home. My mom is a dancer and a wild woman. My father likes photography, and for a living he buys and sells property at this point. He loves photography, fly fishing, and music. My family home has a room filled with bookshelves of CDs, so I was raised with a variety of music. I went to college for dance. My original goal was to find a school that would let me study abroad and dance. I didn’t think that was a real thing you could do, until I got to Elon University in North Carolina. When I got there, they put me in the BFA program, and I thought, Wow, I’m capable? It’s a real life job? I danced all through college, and it’s continued since I’ve been in New York. I moved to New York about 3 years ago. I came to NYC because it was an easy option for me. After college I did an internship at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, which is in the Berkshires. I didn’t know what to do after that. I had a friend here and all the companies I seemed to network with were here. So it just seemed stupid not to come here. So I moved to New York and I still dance. I show my own choreography and I dance for 2 or 3 different people at any given time. I’m working at Sweet Afton, and I’m starting to bartend there. I do a little bit of admin work here and there, and a little bit of PA work for peoples films. I do a lot of little things. My ideal situation would be that I would be choreographing and have my own little company. Nothing huge, my own little company that would feel like a family. I’d like to be part time New York and part time country bumpkin, with a little wooden studio and lots of sunshine. Influences in terms of dancers are Bill T. Jones and David Dorfman, Hofesh Schecter and Bathsheva. Those are my four favorites. I probably draw from very specific music as well; whenever I choreograph I tend to listen to things like Queens of the Stone Age or Beirut. I’m kind of into the funky, circus, gypsy music right now. It’s not that I’d set a piece to that—those are inspiring mood setters per se.
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