University Repertory

(2024) Pixel Perfect examines self-discovery in a world shaped by fleeting screens and social media filters. Experimenting with how dance and augmented reality can intertwine, the piece invites viewers to watch through their phones as shifting digital "costumes" reflect the endless personas crafted for validation online. These layers transform, overlap, and dissolve, exploring the journey from a curated self to authenticity.

(2022) Sea glass, weathered glass found on ocean beaches, is regarded as a symbol of transformation and healing as nature turns discarded trash into beautiful gems. Starfish often represents renewal and regeneration since they can grow back their limbs to escape danger. Together, sea glass and starfish are a call to action for how to shift from a life of languish heightened during the pandemic. Like the starfish, we aim for continuous growth as we embrace the inevitable changes in our lives, softening our edges like the colorful alchemy of sea glass.

(2019) Premiering in Elon University’s 2019 Spring Dance Concert, Fragile: Handle with Care is a powerful interdisciplinary work born from deep collaboration between BFA dance students, alumni, and faculty from the Technical Design & Technology program. Set inside a striking 17-foot-tall box designed by Charles Johnson, the piece confronts the lived experience of gender oppression through movement, space, and story. The choreography was shaped through qualitative, phenomenological research: dancers shared personal accounts, which were then analyzed and transformed into a movement language rooted in vulnerability, strength, and resistance. This process also drew from Renay Aumiller’s pedagogical research on the Students as Partners model in dance education, making the creation of the work an extension of the classroom and a shared act of inquiry. Fragile: Handle with Care invites audiences to witness the weight of personal truth held within a container of care, and the transformative power of moving through it together.

(2024) Kairos delves into the concept of time as a pivotal moment of transformation. Drawing from the Greek word for “the right or opportune moment,” this work explores personal tipping points: the instances in life when everything shifts. Developed through a collaborative process, the dancers reflected on significant turning points in their own lives. These intimate stories became the foundation for the movement, creating a shared language of change, vulnerability, and empowerment.

(2020) Rites of Seasons: Fall was one chapter in Elon University’s groundbreaking 2020 Spring Dance Concert, Rites of Seasons—a bold interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Performing Arts and the Department of Music. This ambitious production, years in the making, brought together original choreography, live music, scenic artistry, and design by Elon’s talented Dance and Music majors. As a movement meditation on the cyclical nature of change, Fall explored themes of release, transition, and transformation. It embodied the emotional and physical shifts that come with letting go—mirroring the season’s shedding of what is no longer needed to make space for what’s to come. Described as the most ambitious dance production in the department’s history, Rites of Seasons exemplified the power of collaboration and creative research, culminating in a performance as intricate and resonant as the seasons themselves.

(2018) Parabolic is a striking sextet performed alongside three large metal pendulums that swing from the ceiling in slow, deliberate arcs. As the piece unfolds, the pendulums—initially in sync—begin to drift out of rhythm, mirroring the fragile and fluctuating nature of time as something felt, rather than measured. Created the year after giving birth to twins, Parabolic is a deeply personal reflection on time as a disorienting, elusive force—no longer belonging to the self, but constantly pulled by others’ needs and demands. The dancers navigate the space between the swinging weights, both literally and metaphorically, offering a visceral experience of care, chaos, surrender, and recalibration. At its core, Parabolic examines the illusion of balance and the quiet power required to move through a world where time is not your own.