• A young woman with dark hair in a high ponytail, wearing a black crop top and red wide-leg pants, is standing on a dark floor against a plain white wall. She is striking a dynamic pose with one arm extended forward and the other near her face, making a peace sign, as if mimicking a martial arts move.

    Supporting & championing my communities

    Using art and humanity as my guiding inspirations, I work in the non-profit sector and share my ideas with others to build a more interconnected world.

    Photo by Dave Moore.

    Community
  • Group of six dancers performing a synchronized dance routine on a wooden floor with colorful stage lighting, wearing casual black clothing and white sneakers, in a room with wooden walls and windows.

    Creation is my calling

    Since choreographing my first piece for older adults at 14, choreography has been central to my self-expression, my ways of connecting, and my being.

    Choreographic Work
  • Woman standing on a chair on a sandy beach, wearing a black dress and straw hat, with mountains and the ocean in the background.

    Movement is life.

    Improvisation is central to my work as an artist, and bringing others’ visions to life brings me joy.

    Movement/Performance
  • A woman wearing a black face mask and black clothes standing next to a graffiti mural on a concrete wall. The mural features a stylized portrait of a woman with long hair on the left and a large red anatomical heart at the center, with small white handprints inside and around the heart.

    Education and Experience

    My academic background has greatly influenced my teaching styles, my interests and curiosities, and my desire for more knowledge.

    Education
A woman dancing barefoot against a beige wall with two closed pinkish doors, holding a large dried palm leaf in one hand and striking a dynamic pose.

I am in service of expression.

I stand upon building a more interconnected world as long as I live on this earth. As a Japanese American woman who lives intergenerationally and embodies intersectionality, it is my duty to bridge understanding between worlds.

As I continue to retrain myself somatically, I dream of globally redefining “humanity”, across all current spiritual, religious, physical, academic, and enforced divides.

As a movement artist, I live between the studio and street worlds in St. Louis. My choreographic and improvised performance work reflect these environments.

Young woman stretching or performing a dance move while standing against a plain white wall, wearing a black top and maroon pants.
A woman in a burgundy dress and white sneakers dancing in a dimly lit, abandoned industrial space with graffiti on the brick wall.
A woman in a burgundy dress and sneakers is blindfolded, standing in an abandoned building with graffiti and a wooden ceiling.
A woman in a burgundy dress and white sneakers dancing in an abandoned, graffiti-covered building with a wooden ceiling.