Q: What inspires you and drives you forward as an artist?

I like to consider dance to be my therapy. Whenever I perform, it releases any problems that I have. I think just showing up everyday and seeing how you can improve day by day, especially doing the same show everyday (can be inspirational). It is easy for it to get redundant and stale and if you can find one thing you can improve everyday, that drives me forward because it’s like how well can I perform by the end of the week or month. It doesn’t have to be technical things, it can be how you feel when you perform or positive self talk.

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Q: How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected you as a performing artist?

We were in Ottawa, Canada when we found out our tour may be postponed or cancelled. It started around March when it became a big topic for the tour and a lot of people started getting really nervous about it. They thought it would shut things down in NYC, but not our tour —  then we found out we were going to be laid off and then postponed for a week, which turned into a month and then 2 months. The tour is actually being extended rather than closed. It is exciting because hopefully we will resume June 1st and go through the summer until mid August for the cities we canceled and postponed.