my deeply physical performance renderings emphasize
abstraction (transmuting wisdoms as they come through the body),
intimacy (striving to source the marrow of the marrow), and a
reverence for lived experience/s.
my approaches to making are outgrowths of the faith, resourcefulness and unflinching courage of my immigrant family. my first choreographic processes were the silent organization of our sustained work to restore, repurpose, conserve and find alternative uses for seemingly everything.
In the studio, i cleave, syncretize and reckon.
my practices bring together fellow makers to synthesize and press into the edges of
palpable media (e.g., activating skin, clothing, built environments, performance landscapes, atmospheric elements, artifacts, objects…) AND
immaterial objects (e.g., vocalizations, uttered texts, stories, images, rituals, visions, light, concepts, prayers,…).
Whether work is presented as a spontaneous or more firmly defined composition (i.e. improvised or choreographed), it becomes through a sensitivity to visceral responses (including those of collaborators) to ______________ (fill in the blank).