movement & sound

performance

shadow of a palm, 2024

sound

why can’t we, 2021

My practice emerges at the intersection of performance, ritual, sound, and the natural world. As a Dominican American artist born and raised in New York City, I carry the memory of a homeland often experienced through longing, stories, and fragments. Performing within nature becomes a way of returning—an act of communion that allows me to reimagine my relationship to land and lineage across distance.

Rooted in African and Indigenous practices, my work is grounded in offerings and ritual to spirit. I see nature—the land, beaches, oceans, rivers, and waterfalls—as spaces of self-reflection. The land carries knowledge beyond words, and I surrender to it to find answers. My performances emerge from this listening: I move intuitively with earth, water, trees, and shadows, allowing the environment itself to guide me. The land is not a backdrop but an active collaborator: it holds me as much as I hold it. Through this dialogue, I create ephemeral rituals—spirals traced in sand, offerings of stones or coconuts, movements that mirror wind and tide—that bridge body and spirit, absence and presence, diaspora and rootedness.

Alongside movement, I explore sound and music as portals of healing. Through rhythm, voice, and vibration, I create sonic landscapes that invite release, meditation, and transformation. Sound becomes both prayer and offering, echoing ancestral practices where music calls forth spirit and strengthens communal bonds.

I understand my practice as a lifelong journey of listening and responding—to the earth, to memory, and to the unseen. Through acts both subtle and ceremonial, I aim to cultivate spaces of connection, reciprocity, and renewal—for myself, for my community, and for future generations.