
Artist Statement
My ultimate goal as an artist is to guide individuals to gain greater self-awareness by understanding the symbiotic relationship between mind and body through the field of Dance. The two major questions that inspired this goal are: What does movement tell about me? What parts of myself do my movements show? Throughout my journey as an upgrowing artist, I’ve learned that movement acts as a medium for non-verbal communication and, hence, movements express individuals’ emotions and thoughts. My earlier projects demonstrate how Dance can be used as a tool of communication specifically to raise social awareness in diverse communities. Moreover, the exploration of psychosomatic awareness enlightened the relationship between individuals’ unconscious mind and their movements. Psychosomatic awareness brings insight into the relationship between mind and body by conceptualizing movement as a lived body experience that reflects on one’s authentic self. Thus, to discover the ways movements reflect on individuals’ minds, I intend to explore the relationship between mind and body in my future projects.