Strange Loops is the culminating performance of my thesis research in partial fulfillment of my Masters of Fine Arts in Dance from Florida State University. Inspired by Godel, Escher, Bach by cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter and my own work as a bioengineer, I used athletic contemporary vocabulary and theatrical projections to ask: How does human consciousness emerge from discrete, repetitive units? The work is grounded in ideas of action, reaction, and increasing hierarchical complexity to create a world larger than the sum of its parts. 

Music: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by J.S.Bach; fragile e conciliante from Lamentate by Arvo Pärt