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Danielle's artistic-academic research centers on her original practice, Tethering — a consent-based horizontal aerial fabric methodology developed since 2011 and formally named in 2016. By reorienting vertical fabric into a horizontal plane, Tethering dismantles traditional aerial power hierarchies and opens a somatic space for consensual, embodied encounter where the fabrics act as touch-extension, mediating connection between participants. Consent in Tethering is not a static formality but a living practice rooted in nervous system awareness and Polyvagal Theory: each phase of the heartbeat serves as a guide, inviting participants to navigate a full spectrum of relational expression while honoring difference in how bodies meet and move together. The practice asks a fundamental question: who gets to do aerial, and how?

Currently, Danielle is a PhD candidate in Dance research-creation at Concordia University (Montréal) and the University of Montpellier (France), and a four-year Fulbright Specialist artist. Her doctoral committee includes Angélique Willkie, VK Preston, Erin Manning, and Alix de Morant Wallon. During her MFA in Dance at the University of Colorado Boulder, Danielle received a Fulbright research grant to France, pursuing creative research at the intersection of somatics, aerial arts, dance, cirque, and media arts — asking how we might connect and heal the heart while in grief.

Recent aerial residencies include Mondes Visuels (Chalon), Zepetra (Montpellier), SenseLab and Milieux (Montréal), Nils Obstrat (Paris), and SBCAST (Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology). Danielle has worked as a multifaceted artist for Aerial Dance Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet, the Colorado Ballet, Frequent Flyers®, and the Paloma Project, and has performed and taught at the international Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Festival, Les Rencontres de Danse Aérienne (Nantes), the Berlin Circus Festival, the 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, and Seville, as well as throughout the U.S.

Tethered (2017), a dance film made in residency at La Grainerie (Toulouse) in collaboration with art photographer David Allen and experimental filmmaker Franck Gonnaud, was screened at the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. In 2020, Danielle co-created Aerial Reflexionando — a 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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