Chloe generates her choreography ideas through a process of dance improvisation and journaling. Her choreography and poetry emerge over time. Through this process, the outside world and the inner experience touch. Descriptions of the smell of the air, sounds from outside of an open window, the location of a movement impulse from within, all become rich sources of curiosity and investigation. Sensation, somatic attunement and navigation, interactions with nature and emotion through dance, blend to create art.

Chloe’s current research interests include trauma-informed teaching, somatic practice as performance, as well as the challenges and healing possibilities of being in community while embarking on her own recovery from Complex PTSD. Because her work is improvisational, she discovered a personal need to investigate the ways in which hypervigilance, dissociation, and intuition appear in her choice-making. Chloe generates improvisation scores and poetry that interrogate a somatic experience of self, sound, and environment while applying the Alexander Technique concepts of inhibition and “faulty” sensory appreciation to her performance approach. 

Her choreography has been showcased at the Bryant Lake Bowl, Red Eye Theater, the Cowles Center for Performing Arts, Spectral Cinema at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Danceworks Milwaukee, and Milwaukee Summer Series.