education

[august - december 2023]
nuova officina della danza | turin, it              
international contemporary dance program (ICD)

[september 2016 - june 2020]
union college | schenectady, ny              
BA with honors in english, spanish & hispanic studies, dance


awards

[july 2022 - august 2023]
the watson foundation | new york, ny    
thomas j. watson fellow
a one-year grant for pur­pose­ful, inde­pen­dent explo­ration out­side the unit­ed states. this grant culminated in a project titled, "moving stories: crafting narratives through and about dance," curated to examine how and why communities develop, shape, and tell their personal narratives through traditional dance. research was conducted across 3 continents and 7 countries, including spain, morocco, ireland, italy, japan, thailand, and indonesia.

[june - august 2018]
union college | schenectady, ny     
edward villella fellow
awarded to an exceptional dancer to expand their study of dance beyond the union college campus. trained in aerial lyra (hoop) and split silks.

[june 2018]
union college | schenectady, ny     
blake@union prize
“a letter to your majesty” elected to reside in the permanent william blake @union digital collection, linked.

[may 2017]
union college | schenectady, ny
william h. bloom, M.D. (1945) and jonathan r. bloom (1988) poetry prize
for the best poem or series of poems by an undergraduate.








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