April, 2019

While in Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts last month, I started research for the Pleasure Project, a new inquiry. I’m curious as to how people make themselves feel good - what sounds, colors, foods, environments make them feel best? How do people know physically when they’re feeling amazing? I gave out questionnaires, and interviewed several associate artists, asking them for detailed responses as to what makes them feel great, excited, soothed. The interviews Hurley Winkler, sound engineer extraordinaire, and I recorded were electric! Such exciting insights as to how people get to and respond to their happy places. I can’t help but smile during my editing process. I am culling a sound score, more to come as the track becomes cohesive.

I’m continuing work on Come To Me, my newest solo. I’m playing with puzzle pieces of stories of my physical experience, real and imagined. I’m investigating how to tell a vulnerable story of love and loss by fragmenting and abstracting it, so only a shadow of the sentiment remains. It’s a play on audience’s perception of inexplicit information. Grace Mi He Lee has been instrumental in coaching me along, and sharing showings with my fellow aMaSSiT choreographers has been invaluable!