CURRENT MISSION

¨Let the beauty you love be what you do"

ABOUT ME

I recently finished my BA in Anthropology of the Performing Arts and now work full time as a circus coach and performer. My specialty is hand-balancing and contortion, but I also do some aerial silks and trapeze.

I'm about to start a year-long project to study handbalancing and contortion traditions around the world! I will spend three months each in Mongolia, China, India and Montreal...

PHILOSOPHY

"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive."

-Howard Thurman

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't had the opportunity to host yet, but I've had some lovely experiences staying with people in Chile and the States.

Interests

Handstands, knitting, hammocks, peer-reviewed journals, good poetry, good books, art, peanut butter. Rock climbing, aerial fabric, swinging. Nonviolent communication, direct democracy.

• arts
• books
• poetry
• performing arts
• beauty
• coach
• knitting
• rock climbing
• anthropology

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors:

E.E.Cummings
Walt Whitman
Jack Kerouac
Chuck Palahniuk
Isabel Allende
John Steinbeck
Victor Hugo
Rumi
etc.

Music:
Iron and Wine
Gramatik
Lhasa de Sela
Madeleine Peyroux
Zoe Keating
The Avett Brothers
Gogol Bordello
etc.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach:
accordion
partner acrobatics
hand balancing
trapeze
knitting

Want to learn:
So much!
At the moment I'm all focused trying to learn the Mongolian and Mandarin and brushing up on my French (whew!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Mexico, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, United States