A choreographed dance executed by professional dancers looks effortless, but beneath the surface the dancer is a well-trained and hardworking machine. As a former dancer at the Alvin Ailey Dance School in NYC it was natural for me to use dance as inspiration for my final project. My goal was to create a choreographed collection that embodies the tension between the airy effortless appearance and the strict mechanism working within. I began searching which phenomenon seems to defy gravity in our world, and reached birds and parachutes.