I co-facilitated a workshop, "Borders Resurfacing," with fellow Post Natyam Collective member, Sandra Chatterjee, at the Performance Studies International Conference in Hamburg. Flows of people and cultures come to an abrupt halt as borders suddenly reemerge all over ...
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Part ritual, part performance art, part colonial history inscribed on the body, blood run investigates Cynthia Ling Lee’s Han Chinese colonizer and Taiwanese plains indigenous heritages within the context of larger political histories. Combining multimedia, dance, ...
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I performed material from my project, “Lost Chinatowns,” at the Gutsy Series: Sunday Supper in Berkeley.  “Lost Chinatowns” explores the destruction and historical erasure of Santa Cruz’s Chinatowns from 1860-1955.  In the performance, I build and dismantle sculptural ...
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As part of the Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies, I will present a lecture-performance based on my solo show, blood run, to investigate the relationship between migration, indigeneity, and settler-colonialism.   blood run investigates my Han Chinese colonizer and Taiwanese plains indigenous ...
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I presented a paper entitled "Decolonizing a 'Contemporary' Technique Curriculum?" at the CORD/SDHS Conference at Pomona College, Pomona CA, from November 3-6, 2016.  The paper was part of an organized panel with Ana Paula Hofling and Katya Wesolowski ...
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As part of Looking Left/Dance In Unlikely Places, an evening of site-specific works on the grounds of Santa Cruz's historic City Hall, I performed material from my newest project, "Lost Chinatowns."  "Lost Chinatowns" explores the destruction and historical erasure of ...
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It was an honor to perform "rapture/rupture" at my alma mater for "Making Change for Better Communities Through Dance," an event commemorating the contributions of Swarthmore College's beloved long-time director of dance, Sharon Friedler.  Directed by Shyamala ...
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I'm delighted to be joining the Theatre Arts Department at UC Santa Cruz as a tenure-track assistant professor of dance starting fall 2016.  I look forward to being near the Pacific in striking distance of my biological ...
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