Creative Inquiry explores performance, embodiment, and artistic practice as methods of cultural investigation. Through choreography, interdisciplinary collaboration, and public engagement, these projects examine how knowledge is generated, transmitted, and experienced through the body.
Together, they trace an evolving inquiry into abstraction, perception, transformation, agency, and cultural memory, approaching performance as a living archive and embodied practice as a mode of research, reflection, and knowledge production.
Creative Inquiry
POWER (2026)
Overview
POWER examined how power is experienced, negotiated, resisted, and transformed through the body. Through choreography, improvisation, and collaborative composition, the project explored the relationship between agency, vulnerability, resilience, and collective action.
Reflection
The accompanying image emerged from the project's exploration of agency, resistance, determination, and transformation. A forward-moving figure appears suspended within a field of repeated typography, creating a visual tension between motion and structure. POWER approached power not as domination, but as a dynamic relationship between bodies, communities, and acts of becoming. Through movement, the project asked what becomes visible when individuals confront, inherit, challenge, and reclaim the forces that shape their lives.
CHROMA (2025)
Overview
CHROMA explored the expressive and symbolic power of color through movement, perception, and collective experience. Drawing inspiration from color theory, color psychology, frequency, and cultural symbolism, the project examined how color shapes emotional response, identity formation, and embodied meaning.
Reflection
Centered around a color wheel and spectral field, the accompanying image emerged from a collaborative design process guided by the project's conceptual framework. The visual identity reflects the relationship between perception, affect, and cultural meaning that animated the performance. CHROMA approached color not as decoration, but as a carrier of memory, emotion, and embodied experience, asking how visual encounters become forms of knowledge and how color shapes the ways we experience ourselves and the world around us.
Dance: An Evolutionary Act (2024)
Overview
Dance: An Evolutionary Act examined movement as a living process of adaptation, transformation, and cultural transmission. Through choreography, collaborative composition, and performance, the project explored how dance functions as both a personal and collective record of human experience.
Reflection
The accompanying image, designed by Winston Benons Jr., employs collage and assemblage to construct a larger abstract figure from individual student portraits. Functioning as a visual metaphor for evolution itself, the image suggests that communities are continually formed through the accumulation, interaction, and movement of individual experiences. The project marked an important stage in my evolving understanding of performance as a repository of knowledge and a living archive through which histories, identities, and cultural memory are carried forward.
Conversations with Rothko (2023–Present)
Overview
Conversations with Rothko is an ongoing interdisciplinary performance inquiry that explores abstraction as a site of embodied knowledge. Developed through sustained engagement with the paintings of Mark Rothko, the project investigates how movement, presence, and perception function as modes of interpretation and meaning-making.
Reflection
The accompanying digital collage, Witness and Archive (2023), was created through the research and development process of the project and reflects many of its central concerns, including abstraction, migration, memory, embodiment, and cultural inheritance. Rather than treating abstraction as something to be decoded, Conversations with Rothko approaches abstraction as a space through which knowledge is felt, negotiated, and experienced. The project continues to inform my research into embodied archives, visual inquiry, and the relationship between movement, perception, and cultural memory.