MOVEMENT ARTS

I have been studying and performing Afro-diasporic dance since 2010. My first love was Mande dance of the Bamana people from present-day Mali, but I have also spent years practicing Yorùbá and Afro-Brazilian dance in Los Angeles, CA. I have studied Guinean, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro-Haitian dance in New York, NY; Durham, NC; Cambridge, MA; and Los Angeles, CA. My teachers have included Omowale and Francis Awe, Tania Melendez, Seydou Coulibaly, Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Rachel Hernandez, Linda Yudin, Luiz Badaró, Samantha Blake Goodman, Vera Passos, Gisella Ferreira, Vida Vierra, Amen Santo, Ana Laidley. I have taught and choreographed for Beneficent Congregational Church, Barrington Congregational Church, Providence Public Schools, Theater of Hearts/Youth First, Civic Wellbeing Partners, Global Dance Arts, the Providence Parks and Recreation Department, Brown University Recreation, and the Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. I have performed with the New Works/World Traditions Dance Company, The Axé Collective, Swing Brazil Tribe, The Nigerian Talking Drum Ensemble, and Ballet Folclórico Do Brasil. Whether I'm working with pre-schoolers or college students, I provide sensitive instruction that contextualizes Afro-diasporic dance as a powerful healing modality and a serious art form. As a non-Black person who benefits from anti-Blackness, I return at least 20% of any resources I receive for teaching Afro-diasporic dance to Black communities.

My father taught me Yang Style Tai Chi growing up, and I have continued to seek out the modalities of our ancestors. At Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I have completed Self-Healing Qigong, Harmony Tai Chi, Qigong for Weight Management, Chen-style Sword Form, Eight Treasures Qigong levels 1 and 2a, Crane Style Qigong, and Qigong Meditations for Cancer Treatment and Prevention. I am a certified Self-Healing Qi Gong instructor through the College of Tao and completed teacher training in Qigong Meditations for Cancer Treatment and Prevention. I currently study Yang style taijiquan with my father, Dr. William Tsung-Liang Lee, who has practiced the Chen Man-Ching form for over 30 years. I have taken classes with Amira Kusala, Ed Sullivan, Dr. Bita Yadidi, Dr. John Barber, and Curtis Callison. In 2015, I began studying Wun Hop Kuen Do, Filipino stick fighting, and street fighting from Sifu Earl White. I have studied capoeira from Renato Mendonça and Mestre Amen Santo since the early 2010’s.

As a trained Council facilitator, I hold space in circle for transformative listening from the heart. I have taught qigong at Forest Grove UCC, Pacific University, Brasil Brasil Cultural Center, Pieter Performance Space, freeskewl, Sovern, and the Asian Mental Health Project. I offered a somatic wayfinding workshop as part of virtual care lab and NAVEL’s micro-residency with The Bentway and From Later. I offered “Embodying Freedom: Abolishing the Prisons in Our Cells” at the Arts for a New Future: Justice Arts Coalition’s 2021 National Convening and “Ancestral Energy Healing: Axé + Qi” via Civic Wellbeing Partners. I am a Level 2 instructor through the College of Tao's International Taoist Meditation Institute under Dr. Mao-Shing Ni and Olivia Rosewood. I have been a guest teacher with Alchemystic Studio, with the QTPoC Mental Health Project’s Rest for Resistance monthly meditation and their annual Rest Fest.

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