How art & dance can change our communities

You raise a lot of questions and socio-political awareness through your dance work. Why do you think art, particularly dance and movement is important to/for a community? ‍

For people to feel like they too can do it, what I'm doing isn't technical or special, it's how I love to move, create, feel and express. How do they like to do this? What's in their world of creativity and how could they use their skills to make the world just that more inclusive.

Lately I've been touching on a lot of mental health topics, such as our upcoming exhibition R + R (Rest and Restoration) and the video we made over lockdown called Flow. 흐름 about feeling like you're less human because you're unemployed or feeling like you're going backwards because you haven't achieved as much as you wanted in 2020. ‍

I never want to just do one thing, so political topics are not my go to, I decided to create something to do with North and South Korea because that's what I was fascinated about and it was my whakapapa. I always want to challenge myself and create new initiatives!‍

Was just talking to a friend about being a dabbler, just dabbling in everything and she was like we contain multitudes, and we so do! All the artists I work with and know, not just only hone in on one craft, they're all so fluid and talented, working collectively across many styles of artworks, blending and combining works.