PERFORMANCE ARTIST
When immersed in a dance, I experience the paradox of being both in and completely out of my body, I sense a peripheral glimpse of ‘who I was/will be’ before and after this life. I explore this phenomena in these selected recent performances.
Below are excerpts.
THRESHOLD - Expresses the experience when you become aware of the threshold between form and spirit. (ArteSumapaz residency Colombia 2024)
DAWN-DAY-DUSK- -the passage of time is visceral in nature (Newfoundland Canada residency - 2024)
INTERNAL SEMANTICS - When constrained - the body speaks from the inside out. San Francisco - 2020
CAPTER LA LUMIERE- To move either with or towards the light. Music: Thomas Tereszkiewicz
Studio Faire Residency - Nerac, France, 2025
ART IN NATURE FESTIVAL - A dance within a Redwood grove and my 50 foot painting – expressing the union between sky and earth, human and nature - Bonnie Kwong-musician. (2022)
SENSE OF DIRECTION (writer/director/performer) - An older woman looks back at a seminal relationship which began in childhood on a turf labyrinth and lasted their lifetimes. (2019)
GROUNDED SPIRAL- The power and passion of circular energy - musician Frank Yamma Pitjantjara - one of Australia’s prominent indigenous voices (2023)
UBUNYE - (Zulu word for Unity) - Solo performed for my students in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 2014 Music by Enigma with traditional Taiwanese Amis song sung by Difang and Igay Duana
IN…VISIBLE - As woman age and their existence is not reflected back to them as much through attention from others, they become in…visible to others, but closer to themselves. Music: Balloon by Phoebe Martha (2023)
Links to Visual Art and Educator Experience Below