Q: Do you believe dance can be a platform for social justice topics? 

For sure. I feel like it always had those moments for it. For example, there is a piece called the Green Table and Deep Song by Martha Graham. Martha was invited to see Hitler at the olympics and she turned down the invitation because she had all these races in her company and she said, ‘with this regime I don't see this working for what is happening’. I do think it has its place and it will continue to have its place. 

Q: What was the last show or project you were working on when this hit? 

We were in Washington, DC for a week and had just finished performing at the Kennedy Center. It was a great tour and the audiences were amazing — it was so beautiful. Right after that we came back to NYC and we did a deconstructed lecture demonstration of Martha Graham’s Night Journey in Tanglewood. A few of us were there and started to get word of Corona. I kept hearing things getting cancelled and on the way back to the city from Tanglewood I read that the Met cancelled their season and Broadway was closing and I then realized it was getting real. I knew it was about to get crazy.