It was my pleasure to perform “rapture/rupture" at the Erasing Borders Dance Festival at the Schimmel Center in New York City on August 13, 2016.  Directed by Shyamala Moorty with dramaturgy by Sandra Chatterjee and music by ...
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This ritual offering, enacted with a few loved ones at the Pacific Ocean, completed my June performance of blood run at Highways Performance Space.  During blood run, audience members were asked to write letters to their lost ancestors.  During "Pacific ...
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I will be presenting a paper entitled "Subaltern Historiography as Choreographic Tactic: Meena Murugesan’s we used to see this and Cynthia Ling Lee’s blood run" at the World Dance Alliance Asia-Pacific Conference at Seoul Cyber University in ...
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Meena Murugesan and I will present a shared show, more than, less than at Highways Performance Space. How do we decide who has the right to be a full citizen, and by extension, to be treated ...
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I will present a performative paper,“blood run: colonizer | colonized in the same body, as part of a panel, “Performing Queer Colonial Exchange: Making Visible Histories of Erasure” at the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies conference ...
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In blood run, Cynthia Ling Lee investigates her Taiwanese indigenous and Han Chinese colonizer heritages within the context of larger political histories.  Part ritual, part performance art, part colonial history inscribed on the body, ​her work ...
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I'll be teaching a text-movement workshop, "The Thinking Body, the Dancing Word," at the American College Dance Association Mid-Atlantic. The Thinking Body, the Dancing Word: text-movement improvisation in Simone Forti’s Logomotion and kathak abhinaya What are the myriad ...
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I performed "The Decolonial Fortune-teller" as part of the Gutsy Series.  The Decolonial Fortune-teller, Madame May Chang, interacts with audience members one-on-one.  Her "fortunes" are indigenous critiques of Han Chinese colonization of Taiwan based on Atayal writer ...
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