Photography & Performance

Through the lens, on the stage

Photography, dance, theater, and singing — four different ways of telling a story without writing it down.

Bella and two castmates reading a book together on stage, framed by red flowers
mid-scene, spring production ✿

Category One · Artist Statement

Photography

My photography lives in the same place my writing does: the in-between. I'm drawn to thresholds — doorways, windows, reflections, the moment before something happens — and to the quiet evidence people leave behind in a space. This portfolio explores how light and framing can hold two things at once: what a place is, and what it feels like to stand inside it.

The Scrapbook

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Category Two

Dance

Dance is where I stop translating. Choreography asks for honesty the way writing does — a phrase, a breath, a held moment — but the language is entirely physical. After ten years of training, I choreograph my own contemporary and lyrical pieces, and every show teaches me something new about trusting the people moving beside me.

Bella dancing in pink stage light
The dance company reaching upward under green light

Category Three

Theater

On stage, I get to live inside someone else's story for a while — and bring the audience with me. I've played Amy in Little Women and Lisa in Mamma Mia!, and was an ensemble member in Pippin on our mainstage. Theater has taught me projection, presence, and how much work hides behind a single effortless-looking scene.

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Bella singing with the choir at the holiday concert
Choir performance moment
Choir performance moment

Category Four

Singing

In choir, no voice works alone. Singing has taught me the discipline of blend — listening harder than you sing, tuning to the people around you, and carrying your own line anyway. I was selected for our Advanced Chorus, The First, and our a cappella group, and was invited to perform alongside the Princeton Tigerlilies — Princeton's oldest all-female a cappella group, founded in 1971 — in a campus showcase. It's the closest thing I know to the "beautiful song" I once felt outside of; here, I know the lyrics.