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She has performed at ODC Theater, Joe Goode Annex, Project Artaud, Real Time and Space, Performance Primers, and Aunt Charlie’s Lounge. She also curates and produces Ecotones (formerly Emergent Landscapes), public art events featuring site-specific, interdisciplinary art performances in nature by artists of color. For her curatorial work, she has been supported by Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s New and Experimental Works Program, Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts Program, Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure, and Hope Mohr Dance/The Bridge Project’s Artist Council. She was selected as a Yerba Buena Center for the Art’s Creative Dissent Fellow. She has presented Ecotones at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve in collaboration with Beatriz Escobar and East Bay Regional Park District.
Her artistic practice is informed by Daoist mysticism, maurya kerr’s durational improvisation of the imagination, Nelson Chu’s taiji 傅氏太极拳 and bagua 傅氏八卦掌, Hui Liu’s qigong 大雁气功, gizeh muñiz vengel’s contemporary floorwork, Ranko Ogura’s Noguchi Taiso のぐちたいそう, TAO Dance Theater’s circular movement system 圆运动体系, and Aurora Tang’s High Desert Test Sites (2011-2015).
Portrait by Miriam Medellín Myers