I navigate and understand the world through the lens of dance. Having begun my training at the age of seven, movement became a primary way of perceiving rhythm, space, and human relationship. Over time, this way of seeing has shaped how I understand art, culture, and people, informing both my creative practice and how I move through the world.
I grew up within an industry shaped by hierarchy, gender imbalance, and unspoken expectations. My exposure to the inequities embedded within ballet and classical dance began early and continued throughout my professional life. Navigating these environments required resilience, discernment, and an ability to move through complexity without losing rigor or self-direction. These experiences continue to inform how I lead, collaborate, and make creative decisions today.
Growing up in Hong Kong and the United States, with my career taking me across Europe, Asia, and America, I have spent much of my life moving between different cultural frameworks and definitions of authority. This perspective has shaped my ability to read environments, translate across systems, and lead with both clarity and sensitivity. With nearly two decades of professional experience in the dance industry, I have worked across a range of contexts as a performer, collaborator, educator, and creative leader.
"Leadership requires clarity, care, and an ability to hold people and process together."
My perspective on leadership has been shaped less by title and more by sustained practice. I understand leadership as the ability to provide clarity, maintain consistency, and make informed decisions while holding both people and process with care. In creative environments especially, this requires disciplined listening, clear communication, and an awareness of how power, structure, and expectation shape the work being made. I am drawn to leadership models that prioritize accountability, sustainability, and long-term development, both for individuals and for the systems they operate within.
At the core of my work is a commitment to autonomy and embodiment within creative systems that rely on human bodies as their primary site of labor. I work to shape structures that recognize the intelligence of the body while remaining clear, sustainable, and accountable in practice. This involves making considered decisions about pace, process, and expectation, and designing environments where rigor and care are held in balance rather than positioned in opposition.
As my practice continues to evolve, I engage creative entrepreneurship as a practical means of supporting this work. Across performance, choreography, education, and independent creative ventures, I focus on translating values into structure so that creative ideas can be sustained responsibly over time.
My work is supported by both artistic and structural training. I hold a BFA in Dance Performance and a BA in Economics, alongside formal certification in project management. In parallel with my creative practice, I founded Ballet Trauma Club in 2024 as an independent creative venture, grounding my work in systems-building, execution, and accountability.
