about

Skye is a queergaylesbian, multidisciplinary performance maker. Her artistic practice is driven by the desire to investigate identity politics, oppression, and information war — how these phenomena are inscribed upon the body, and how that inscription shapes our inner life and connection to each other. At the intersection of these powerful forces, how do we recover our agency, ourselves—-moment to moment?

Skye makes work through body-based improvisation, sourcing movement, voice, and text by following sensation into imagination. Her primary practice is Action Theater, an improvisational method developed by Ruth Zaporah. Skye studied with her from 2012-2024 and now teaches Action Theater as a way to cultivate presence, responsiveness and collective awareness—-skills she believes are as political as they are poetic.

Skye studied dance at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and earned a BFA in dance from the University of Colorado, where she studied with Michelle Ellsworth, Erika Randall, Gesel Mason, and Rennie Harris. She is also an alum of the Headlong Performance Institute in Philadelphia under the direction of David Brick.

In addition to her live performance work, Skye creates short dance films and has worked as assistant to Ed Bowes on four feature-length films.

Since arriving in Seattle in 2021, Skye has produced two evening length performances, infinitely wretched: why would we murder what we create? (2022) and the body of pain in a post-antibiotic era (2024), and was featured at 12 Minutes Max at Base Experimental Arts + Space (2023). She co-founded Studio Salon with fellow artist Kristen Yeung, a community for artists of all mediums to share reflection and feedback during the making of their work.