Artist’s Statement
I am a movement artist whose dance practice is the foundation for my work as a ritualist, ceremonial space-holder, and creative strategist.
Trained in the Silvestre Technique—a Brazilian contemporary dance form rooted in indigenous movement—my embodied practice is informed by the elements of earth, air, water, and fire. Dance has taught me to listen with my body, to read the subtle languages of energy and space, and to choreograph experiences that honor the sacred.
My movement vocabulary emerges from a deep reverence for the natural world.
I am moved by the sensual beauty of nature—its capacity to connect us to the divine within ourselves and to what is most elemental.
Through dance, I explore how our bodies hold ancestral memory, how landscape animates us, and how movement can be an act of communion with the living earth.
As a multi-dimensional creative, I weave movement, earth elements, ritual, and verse into expressions of sacred beauty. I create ceremonial spaces where communities can connect, commune, and return to what grounds us—our bodies and the earth—to remember who we are and what we come from.
I believe in communing with the earth as de-colonial, liberatory acts of freedom. There is profound wisdom encoded in the rhythms of nature. When we relate to the earth with reverence, as the sacred source of life; we learn of dignity, harmony, and interdependence. When we understand our connection to the earth as our source of abundance and wholeness, we are resourced to be the healers and change agents our world needs.
My purpose is our transformation, regeneration, and collective liberation.
Lineage.
As an immigrant daughter of diaspora, first generation born into San Francisco's Chinatown, I am shaped by my East Asian and islander ancestry and every sacred land that has held me. I am guided by beloved mentors and teachers—human and more-than-human—in the ways of movement, somatics, earth-based, ancestral, and indigenous practice.