Danielle creates interactive, provocative, and somatic aerial experiences to explore consensual embodied interactions in a post-touch era questioning who and how we can do aerial. Each heartbeat phase is a guide to practice consent on a spectrum of expressions, honoring difference in relationality. Currently, Danielle is a PhD student in Dance research-creation at Concordia University (Montréal) and the University of Montpellier (France), as well as a 4-year Fulbright Specialist artist. Her advisors are Angélique Willkie, Vk Preston, Erin Manning and Alix de Morant. During her MFA in Dance at the University of Colorado Boulder, Danielle received her first Fulbright, which was a Fulbright research grant to France, performing creative research on the intersection of somatics, aerial arts, dance, cirque and media arts, questioning how to connect and heal the heart while in grief. Recent aerial residencies include Mondes Visuels (Chalôn), Zepetra (Montpellier), SenseLab (Montréal), Milieux (Montréal), Nils Obstrat (Paris), SBCAST (Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology), and the Circus Dialogues Project’s 4th encounter (France). Danielle has worked as a multi-faceted artist for Aerial Dance Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet, the Colorado Ballet, Frequent Flyers® and the Paloma Project, and has performed and/or taught for the international Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Festival, Les Rencontres de Danse Aérienne (Nantes), the Berlin Circus Festival, Santa Barbara Floor to Air Festival, Aerial Greece, and the San Francisco Aerial Dance Festival. Her artistic and academic work has taken her to Paris, Berlin, Athens, Brussels, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Lyon, Avallon, Nantes, London, Brighton, Lisbon, Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville as well as throughout the U.S. Additionally, Tethered, a dance film made in residency at La Grainerie (Toulouse) through collaboration with an art photographer and experimental filmmaker, David Allen and Franck Gonnaud, respectively, was screened at the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. In 2020, she co-created Aerial Reflexionando (virtual aerial arts colloque) with Ana Prada to support critical exchange on contemporary aerial arts in the Americas.

Research-Creation Performance, Montreal (live tethering dance and digital composition to real-time bopmetric heartbeats): Heart Tethers   

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