I like the action of crossing borders. I began doing this after I graduated from high school by embarking in  artistic and academic adventures throughout North America. Border crossing involves movement.  As I continue to cross new borders, I embrace the challenge of navigating different languages and customs. Boundaries appear in many forms, including geographical, social, economical, political, religious, gender, and educational; however, one can be unaware of their existence until they block one's mobility.   For a year, I crossed the border between United States and Mexico by foot every weekend. As a grew comfortable being a border crosser, I have embraced this action in my scholarly and creative work as well.  The metaphor of border crossing compares disciplines to territories or countries. It also signals the process of moving from one discipline of knowledge to another. Being an interdisciplinary artist involves exploring a boundary-overlapping curiosity where one has to draw on views from two or more disciplines. For example, the process of interpreting the meaning of a dance piece often involves crossing the boundaries between some humanities like literature, history, art, theatre, music or psychology.  As an interdisciplinary traveler, I move from discipline to discipline in search for knowledge relevant to my research.

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My home discipline is dance.  From this disciplinary territory, I have been learning to communicate productively with others who are different from me. I value peeking in, as a beginner, to a world of the immerse. Making connections is not just an intellectually and artistically stimulating practice, but an active way to broaden one's understanding of the world.  This critical reflection starts influencing the process of analyzing, questioning and reconsidering one's home discipline by caring about the implications of potential connections, as well as the process of making connections. 

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My practice is a balanced action of creative and scholarly research. My areas of interest include the reflection of national identities through folk dances and music, the performance space as a border crossing territory between performers and audience, the work of female poets and playwrights, improvisation as a spiritual practice, and movement analysis. My creative process very often integrates original writing and music. I co-direct Another River Interdisciplinary Ensemble  in order to engage in interdisciplinary projects outside my work in academia.