Holmes is a choreographer and director working across dance, theatre, film, and sound. Rooted in Celtic traditional dance and shaped by years in the commercial worlds of jazz and street styles, her work moves between raw physicality and dreamlike spectacle. Raised in the DIY arts scene of New York’s Lower East Side, she builds worlds that feel both ritualistic and cinematic. Pulling from pop culture, fashion, and the dissonance of beauty and distortion, she crafts pieces that are emotionally charged and visually saturated. Holmes works with dancers like characters—half-myth, half-icon—inhabiting spaces where the poetic and the brutal sit side by side.
Creating for both stage and film, and in gallery and public settings, her work has been exhibited and performed internationally at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Théâtre national de la Colline, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Le Générateur, Cannes Film Festival - (France), Place des Arts, Centre Phi, Société des arts technologiques, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Théâtre ESPACE GO, Centre du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, Théâtre de Quat'Sous, Théatre du Nouveau Monde - (Canada), Lincoln Center, NEW INC. in collaboration with the New Museum, Center for Performance Research (United States), and the Belgrade National Theatre (Serbia). Commercial choreography, performance, publication features and collaborations include: Louis Vuitton, SSENSE, Versace, Rag & Bone, SHOWstudio, Vogue magazine, V Magazine, i-D, W Magazine, DAZED, NOWNESS, and recording artists such as Madonna, Miguel, J-Cole, Cœur de pirate, Leon Bridges, The Kills, Sleater Kinney, and RZA.
Her work and teachings are an expression of her lifelong interest in movement, music, and body-mind practices and in 2014, she was introduced to Jessica Fecarotta’s approach to embodied anatomy and dance inspired by the Lilian Arlen Method, which propelled her further fascination with movement research and somatic studies. She continues to deepen these practices under the guidance of Jessica Fecarotta and since 2019 has been studying Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge.