THERE IS A HOME WITHIN YOU

A moment of forced transition, due to the pandemic, uprooted my 2020 graduating class prematurely. This short was my final project as an undergraduate at The Juilliard School, inspired by the desire for home amid a transition to a new stage of life. Before the main character accepts the gift of reimagining their future, they indulge in a moment of reflection and sacred nostalgia.

I have studied dance since I was six, and have been told how to move for nearly all of my life. In college a real hatred for my craft set in: up against a technical, aesthetically driven ideology, I couldn’t express myself authentically. This piece released me from that history and let me own my movement. Put simply, I didn’t need to look beautiful if I didn’t feel beautiful. Aesthetic is only a means to clear communication. The truth can be spoken one way in the body, and since every body is unique, so is every dance.