I am an Okinawan-American dancer, choreographer, and educator based in New York City. My work draws on improvisation, archival materials, and interdisciplinary collaboration to create performance-based practices that examine power, authorship, and interpretation in contemporary Western dance.
My choreography has been presented by The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, ISSUE Project Room, Movement Research, and Roulette. I have held artist residencies at Center for Performance Research and Abrons Arts Center (2022), Lower Manhattan Cultural Center and ArtCake (2021), and Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow (2018) and Gibney Dance (2015). As part of my residency at CPR, artist Jesi Cook and I recently co-organized a performance marathon fundraiser for Red Canary Song, an organizing collective for Asian & migrant sex workers. My works-in-process were supported by AUNTS, Seoul Dance Center, Knockdown Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, among others. My writings on dance are published in Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence and I teach at Gibney Dance, freeskewl, and Pageant. I have received funding support from Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Mertz Gilmore Foundation. As a performer, I’ve worked with Alexa West, Laurie Berg, Kim Brandt, Jesi Cook, Milka Djordjevich, devynn emory, Simone Forti, Okkyung Lee, Haegue Yang, and Kyli Kleven. I’ve performed at venues including the Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Guggenheim Museum, the New Museum, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Pioneer Works, New York Live Arts, MCA Chicago and REDCAT.