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SELECTED LIVE & VIDEO PERFORMANCES

2022 . The Camera Figure in We Saw Ourselves Dreaming—A Film By Giraffe Studios, written, produced, designed, directed, starring, and edited by Nicola and Juliana Giraffe / Giraffe Studios, Los Angeles, California

2021 . The Chinatown Massacre: A Commemorative Performance, collaborative performance commemorating the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre, with Micah Huang and Emma Gies, performed at Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles and at Scripps College, Claremont, October, 2021

2021 . Music video for bless your name by jess joy off the album PATREEARCHY, directed, designed, and co-choreographed by jess joy

2020 . Pendatang 3: les six mouvements de la pensée, durational process video for Mine & Yours virtual group exhibition curated by Renae Barnard, July 10—August 15, 2020

2019 . Bureau of Thanks at soundpedro 2019, ear-oriented multi-sensory art festival curated by FLOOD at Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California

2018 . Pendatang 2: Samuel Takes A Walk, Rhizomatic Studio’s Performance Lab 2018, curated by Allison Wyper, performed for The Dancer-Citizen Live 2018 Moving the Map, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, California

2017 . Eggshells in the Junk Drawer, residency with Carlon + Lollie at Automata, Chinatown, Los Angeles, California

2016 . No Place Like, site-responsive ensemble performance directed by Andrea Tzvetkov, written by Soffi Stiassni, Pico House, Los Angeles, California

2015 . Music video for The Air in Time by Rachel Grimes, camera and edit by Greg King, choreography by Ashley Steimer-King and the ensemble, Los Angeles, California

2014 . Black Sea, with Laurie Cameron & Company, choreographed by Laurie Cameron, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, Chicago, Illinois

2013, 2014 . Bureau of Thanks, site-interactive installation-performance, multiple Claremont Colleges campuses, Claremont

2012 . Echo Walk, in collaboration with Yozmit, Claremont Colleges campuses, Claremont, California

2011 . Eight Feet and One Half Inch, NOHspace, San Francisco, California

2010 . Semara Dahana, mime and Balinese music and dance collaboration with I Nyoman Wenten, directed by I Nyoman Wenten, Pomona College Gamelan Ensemble Giri Kusuma, Claremont, California

2008 . A Little Of More, devised, choreographed, and directed by Kira Alker & Elke Luyten, NOHspace, San Francisco, California, and Robert Wilson Watermill Center, Long Island, New York

2004, 2006 . Furthest North, Deepest South, directed by Christina Sergeant, The Finger Players Theatre Company, performed in Singapore (2004, 2006) and at Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary (2006)

2006 . Lamentation for Uncle Song, devised with George Chua & The Genealogy Project, The Studios Series, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore

2005 . Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, devised with ensemble, and written and directed by Natalie Hennedige, Cake Theatre Company, Singapore

2005 . Play Play, devised with ensemble and directed by Jing Hong Kuo, Poor Theatre Series, The Theatre Practice, Singapore

2003 . Les guerres que j’ai vues / Eau, double bill, devised by ensemble, directed by Thomas Leabhart, Hippocampe—Association pour Recherche en Mime Corporel, Paris, France

EXHIBITIONS & VISUAL ART

2020 . Mine & Yours, online group exhibition curated by Renae Barnard

2019 . Curator for Artcrib19, outdoor group exhibition, Bonehouse Bridge, Claremont, California

2018 . 50/50: The Creative Magic of Collaboration, group exhibition curated by Conchi Sanford, Progress Gallery, Pomona, California

2018 . Artcrib18, outdoor group exhibition curated by Alice Perreault, Bonehouse Bridge, Claremont, California

2017 . Three Bodies, group exhibition, curated by Alice Perreault, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2016 . Curator for Home, group exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2015 . standing still, MFA thesis exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2014 . three nice words, group exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2014 . PARTY, group exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2014 . Co-curator with Christina Mesiti for Trilateral 2014 ... the Continuum, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, California

2013 . Show #1, group exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

TEACHING

2015–2016 . Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals, Pomona College, Claremont, California

2012, 2013 . Site specific Performance, Pomona College, Claremont, California

2010–2011 . Corporeal Mime, Pomona College, Claremont, California

ARTS ADMINISTRATION

2013–2020 . Associate Editor, Mime Journal, online at The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California

2012–2015 . Grant Coordinator, Mellon Foundation Elemental Arts Initiative, Pomona College, Claremont, California

2000–2006 . Associate Director, Mime Unlimited Theatrical Productions, Singapore

GRANTS & AWARDS

2015 . Fernandez Prize in Art, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2014–2015 . Arien Walker & Harvey M. Parker Memorial Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2013–2014 . CGU Fellowship - Art, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

2000–2004 . Bursary Award, National Arts Council, Singapore

EDUCATION

2015 . MFA, Studio Art, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont , California

2013 . BA with Honors, Transdisciplinary Performance, Pitzer College, Claremont, California

TRAINING & APPRENTICESHIP

2000–2012 . Thomas Leabhart, Corporeal Mime technique of Etienne Decroux, Pomona College, Claremont, California

1994–2001 . Christina Sergeant, Mime Unlimited and Mime Unlimited Theatrical Productions, Singapore

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2012 . Oguri & Bodyweather Laboratory, Pomona College, Claremont, California

2007 . Anne Bogart & the SITI Company, Summer Intensive, Skidmore College, New York

2006 . Richard Emmert & Matsui Akira, The Art of Noh: Noh Performance, Singapore

2006 . Anne Bogart & the SITI Company, Suzuki Actor Training & Viewpoints Technique, Singapore

2002–2003 . Thomas Leabhart & Hippocampe: The Seahorse Project, Paris, France

2001 . Cathy Weis, Performance Art / Monitor Lizards, Pomona College, Claremont, California