My work takes the form of live performance, drawings, intuitive textiles, newsletters, and workshops.

~workshops of all kinds~

Quilting workshops for grief…movement classes for anxiety relief and body image repair…voice work for expanding consciousness.

I help people heal their creative lives. 

📞✨ art-making as soul reunion

I've lived 20 lives since ‘89 -- Professional dancer and choreographer turned museum educator, turned Baby Rave facilitator, turned textile artist, turned rural farmer, turned death midwife, and back to dancer.

Always back to dancer.

I've worked in Atlanta public schools as an arts-integration educator, and stress-reduction specialist for teachers and arts administrators. Taught improv voice work to dancers, helmed an arts incubator program for teens, and organized DIY warehouse art shows across the Southeast.

In 2024 I completed a nine-month death midwifery training through Nine Keys, and have been fully rearranged by the ongoing project of living in death-awareness. This approach to life massages and informs all that I do.

My work is observing the world in front of me, putting my body in proximity to beauty, and metabolizing this life research into my art and facilitation practice.

My choreographic and performance work has been presented by the High Museum of Art, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, Dashboard, The Lucky Penny, Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech, Wonderroot, The University of North Carolina Charlotte, Triptych Collective and KIN.

I graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2011 with a degree in dance. In my ongoing educational pursuits, I’ve studied with movement educator and flow specialist Marlo Fisken, voice artists The World Is Sound, and Jonathan Stancato, somatic leaders Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Kimberly Ann Johnson, Liz Koch, Amber Gray, and Patricia Bardi.

My pedagogy is based in somatic inquiry, presence and mindfulness practices, experimental voice work, intersectional discourse, liberatory social movements, and the perennial power of play.

All photos by Jamie Hopper 🤍