Works

more than | less than (2016)

This bodily movement in this dance-for-camera short is inspired by the Qing Imperial Tribute Illustrations, colonial ethnographic drawings of Taiwanese ...
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The Decolonial Fortune-teller (2016)

Madame May Chang, the Decolonial Fortune-teller, interacts with audience members one-on-one.  Her “fortunes” are indigenous critiques of Han Chinese colonization of Taiwan ...
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blood run film (2015)

This film combines poetic autobiographical musings with ritualized physical actions and evocative imagery of ash, stones, and blood.  The materials, ...
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Accordion Suits for Commutes (2014)

Six dancers in business suits connected by accordion pleats careen, spiral, and bellow through downtown Greensboro. Commissioned by visual artist ...
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rapture/rupture (2013)

The intimate and bittersweet rapture of poetic love-in-separation is reinterpreted through cultural and gendered difference in this contemporary abhinaya (emotional ...
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Super Ruwaxi: Origins (2014)

In Super Ruwaxi: Origins, the Good Little Confucian Girl discovers her super-identity as the Hairy Arm-pitted Feminist, armed with magical ...
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Cyber Chat Series (2009-2013)

These dance-for-camera shorts, created entirely using internet technologies, take inspiration from the Post Natyam Collective’s use of SKYPE to connect ...
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rubix (2012)

Both playful and abstract, this quartet investigates resonances between Indian classical dance’s spatial geometry and ang (lines of the body) ...
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Ranri (widow/courtesan) (2011)

Combining contemporary abhinaya (emotional expression in Indian dance), intimate video projection, poetic text, and haunting electro-Hindustani music, Ranri (widow/courtesan) evokes ...
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