Hettie translates her environment and upbringing into her movement almost flawlessly. Her creative movement is a vision that everyone should experience.
- L. Larson

​​​​​This is such an incredible honor. I’m deeply grateful to DanceForce for recognizing my work and allowing me to receive funding to create movement-based work. 

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30 incredible artists.
20 deeply immersive hours.
5 powerful days.
1 extraordinary mentor.

All for dance.

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This was the 2025

NYS Choreographers Initiative.

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This excerpt is from a larger 30-minute documentary that captures the heart of this process.  To the brilliant artists who joined me from across the Capital Region and New York State, thank you. Thank you for your time, your energy, and your ideas. Thank you for moving with me, processing with me, and creating with me.

 

Special thanks to the Theatre and Dance department of Union College for this beautiful space to process in.  Deep gratitude to my mentor Andre Robles and to Robert Gertler, whom I was able to hire with support from the Choreographers Initiative, to document the journey so beautifully.

 

Lastly, to the NYS Choreographers Initiative and DanceForce, thank you for this opportunity and for the funding to pay each person who danced and processed with me.