Baker Artist Portfolios

I am a dancer, choreographer, arts educator, and mother. Originally from Baltimore, I received a BFA in dance from The Juilliard School in 2002 and an MFA from Hollins University in 2024. Well-versed in Eurocentric forms of concert dance, including Classical, Modern, Contemporary, and Postmodern, I danced principal roles in masterworks by choreographers Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, Johan Inger, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, and Lucinda Childs, among many others, with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Saarländisches Staatsballett in Saarbrücken, Germany, and the Chamber Dance Company of the University of Washington.

During the 2017-18 season, I was the rehearsal director and choreography assistant for Dance Company Nanine Linning/Theater Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany, where I also performed as a guest soloist. From 2018 until 2022, I served as the Dance Department Head at the Baltimore School for the Arts. I joined the dance faculty at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in 2022. Since then, I have been able to reconnect with my personal dance and choreographic practice.

Rooted in smaller, independent projects, my choreographic practice centers on feminist inquiry, especially since becoming a mother. Privileging embodied knowledge, I use movement to examine how power, gender, and identity are experienced and expressed through the body. By challenging fixed narratives, my work invites consideration of the complex realities of being a woman. Fully cognizant that I can never represent the realities of all women, I seek to create works that resonate with audiences, encouraging reflection around gendered experience and social equity, and using dance as a tool for cultural critique and human connection.