spirit
lineage
embodiment
WHO I AM
i make dances that
create infinite possibilities
and usher in radical futurities.
i am an unapologetic brown femme in movement-based art, experimental performance, and spiritual practice. a diasporic child with an unending curiosity towards embodiments of liberation - i seek to unravel the layers of deceit we inherit through colonization. my works encounter that which is often too difficult for us to speak of. therefore, my invitation to you: let us sit with it, move through it, and be moved by it - for this work is only made possible in community.
through re-membering, i am a bridge of reclamation for the generations past and those yet to come. i believe dance holds potentialities for us to heal, transform, and be more fully alive in this waking life. beyond this - i simply desire for my community to feel whole while oceans away from our ancestral lands.
Our Work
BLOOD
A young brown girl awakens to reclaim her ancestral inheritance from Maharlika. A descendant of balyana (priestesses) - believed to have been fed to the crocodiles by Spanish colonizers who feared their unmatched prowess. She re-emerges from the shadows to lead her people into the reckoning for collective liberation.
HINGA
HINGA (BREATHE) is a ritual performance film and time capsule honoring the sacred grief, life force, and resiliency of the Filipinx community in the Bay Area during COVID-19. Honoring the natural landscape of Yelamu / San Francisco and the spirit of SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District - this is a community ritual for healing, release, and dreaming for the future we are ushering in.
ritual for thrivation no. 2
How do we move from a perpetual stasis of survival to palpable thrivation? In a world that has forgotten its inherent responsibility to the earth and each other, ritual for thrivation no. 2 poses ancestral reverence, intergenerational healing, and urban-indigenous futurism as urgent and fundamental to alleviating our current climate crisis.