CURRENT MISSION

Making meaningful connections through art, across cultural boundaries, around common interest in bettering the world. Dancing through the questions as I go.

ABOUT ME

Performing Artist, Teacher, Traveler; Midwestern farm boy fled to world metropolises. Currently a Masters student in Hamburg.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new friends who share my values and interests, and people who know life on the ground in new places while exploring.

Especially excited about people who love performance, dancing, art, and progressive politics.

"Every day I’m still looking for God
and I’m still finding him everywhere,
in the dust, in the flowerbeds.
Certainly in the oceans,
In the islands that lay in the distance
Continents of ice, countries of sand
Each with its own set of creatures
And God, by whatever name.
How perfect to be aboard a ship with
Maybe a hundred years still in my pocket.
But it’s late, for all of us,
And in truth the only ship there is
Is the ship we are all on
Burning the world as we go."

*On Traveling Beautiful Places by Mary Oliver*

Interests

Dance, Conceptual Art, Modernist/Post-modernist histories, social justice, Cooking fresh food, Gay/Queer Communities, Saunas, FKK

• performing arts
• yoga
• sauna
• swimming
• art history
• performance art
• social justice
• contemporary dance
• physical theatre

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Robyn, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Britney Spears, Father John Misty, Beyonce, Missy Elliot, The Cranberries, Kimbra, Prince, Austra, Le1f

Movies: An American in Paris, Pina, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Mean Girls, Hannah Arendt, What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Books: Jane Eyre, The Prophet, Giovanni's Room, The Left-Handed Woman, Main Street, Any poetry by Wislawa Symborska, Maria Rainer Rilke, Mary Oliver

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Relaxing in Malmö's amazing saunas, looking out onto the foggy sound. Swoon.

Teach, Learn, Share

Dancing, Baking, Cooking (I make a mean american pancake!), and Philosophy

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Germany, United States