Dance photo. Marisa arches over a male wheelchair dancer's lap as if she is doing a handstand scorpion

Dancer | Creative Director | Filmmaker

See Differently
Reimagine Possibilities

Artist Statement

My practice explores how inclusion reshapes aesthetic possibility. By centering disabled, historically underrepresented, and unconventional bodies, I challenge dominant narratives of beauty and excellence shaped by media and performance. Working across dance, film, and spatial composition, I use perspective as both form and metaphor, revealing how innovation emerges when we choose to see differently. As a filmmaker, I use storytelling to extend these ideas across time, shaping narratives that surface what is often invisible, silenced, or misunderstood. Beyond the frame and stage, my work cultivates communities as living ecosystems for collective authorship, visibility, and cultural change.

Infinite Flow Dance

Infinite Flow Dance is a disability-led award-winning professional dance company and nonprofit with a mission to advance disability inclusion and reimagine possibilities, one dance at a time. We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary in 2026 and going through a phase of reinvention. I’m excited to explore the new possibilities.

Filmmaker

I made all kinds of videos and dance films via Infinite Flow Dance for ten years before I called myself a filmmaker. Spring 2025, I last-minute entered a 5-day film challenge called the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, and my film, Killed It, became a Finalist for Best Film (Top 4/129). Producing, writing, and co-directing my first narrative short film was a transformational experience, this launched me more formally into the world of filmmaking.

I am looking forward to exploring more narrative, dance, and immersive filmmaking.

On set shooting short film PROM

Challenge Theme: Suspense + Psychological Thriller.

Selected for Dance Camera West 2026.

Commissioned PSA for high schools. 2025.