Community as Collaborators 〰️ Community as Inspiration 〰️
Community as Collaborators 〰️ Community as Inspiration 〰️
Embodied Garden is a piece currently in process — grown from questions about what we carry in our bodies, what we tend, and what we allow to bloom. We are making it in close conversation with a small, beloved community, listening for what they need to see held and witnessed in movement.
This is what it means to make from love.
A Glimpse into Our Process
Embodied Garden is a duet — made with my dear friend and collaborator, Katie Cleek. It is a piece currently in the making, shaped by the full range of what it means to be human alongside people we love. Grief and joy. Lament and play. The things we walk through together, and the beauty that grows from all of it.
To create in community, for community, is to decenter the self and make from love. This work is being shaped in close conversation with real people and real experiences — listening for what needs to be seen, sensed, and held in movement.
What you'll find here is not a finished thing. It is a work becoming, and here is a glimpse into that journey.
Katie Cleek's Solo"The Garden" — Sierra Ferrell
This song came to me through our dear friend Lilah, in a season of heartbreak. Around the same time, Katie was walking through something similar. We cried together. We healed together.
The Garden moves from lament to hope — the narrator swearing off love, then slowly, tenderly, building something new and beautiful anyway. Katie's solo is what we're both still processing: the way grief doesn't disappear, but can become ground for something to grow.
Phrasework / Joy"With Silence (Mvt. 3)" — Erland Cooper
Every piece begins with gathering. Before structure, before form, I build a palette of movement — phrases that hold the emotional world of the work.
This is one small glimpse of that process. A phrase inspired by joy and hope, with a little play folded in.