Chalk Moves is a research-creation project that theorizes with the body. My research methodology employs arts-based and embodied practices such as dance, somatics, choreography, performance and film. These embodied practices are deployed to analyze, interpret, create and perform an aesthetic response to collected data. The data inspired by COVID-19 is reconstituted as a visual-spatial score, situated and performed on a 100-foot pedestrian bridge made of wood and 19 stabilizing steel posts. 

The project explores navigational data found in the built environment of the public space which implicitly and explicitly direct public choreographies. The data for this project includes signage found in public, commercial and offices spaces, art interventions related to COVID and found chalk drawings etched by children on sidewalks and public parks. 

The intention of the website is to elicit a navigational and sensory-perceptual encounter with the research themes related to public choreographies and corporeal-spatial experiences of the public space (the built environment). The website migrates embodied research to the built environment of the digital space as a publication strategy.

My research demonstrates that bodily-processes which make meaning possible (Johnson, 2012) involve an embodied and situated self and all its entanglements with materials, objects and environments. The website and the film centralize body-led research endeavors.