Throughout my career as a student and young choreographer, my studies and work have always been centered on the intersection of applied neuroscience and performance art. Simultaneous research in human cognition and contemporary choreography has led to a diverse array of professional appointments ranging from research intern at The Center For Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital to acting as lead choreographer for Katie Pearl's slabber, to artistic consultant for UNESCO. My novel creative approach, through curation of choreographic aesthetics through empirical research techniques, has allotted me a range of abilities to tailor performance aimed at arousing the human psyche. Most recently, my honors dual thesis at Wesleyan University entitled: Applied Neurochoreography, manipulation of expectation investigated how to devise an interpersonal viewing experience that is not only memorable but will interject into the personal schema. The choreographic construction of this piece mirrored stimuli presentation that was known to manipulate expectancy and heighten surprise through the engagement of the brain’s norepinephrine system. That interjection, if deemed successful, would increase accessibility to performance through a universal analytical framework that aims to form engaging art for all people.

Why PS @ NYU?

I chose Performance Studies in order to develop scholarship around empirical focused research surrounding creative acts and vice versa. PS is a dynamic discipline that has the capacity for renaissance approaches to answering fundamental questions of how we process art and performance psychologically.