My Research Language and Method
To hold this work with precision across scholarship, choreography, pedagogy, and technology, I have developed a connected set of terms— my own research vernacular— that functions as a language system for how I study, make, and translate embodied knowledge. Rather than treating dance as an isolated aesthetic form, my work understands the body as a cultural archive: a site where memory, history, identity, and social conditions are held, negotiated, and expressed. I am especially interested in how movement carries meaning across generations, how cultural context shapes interpretation, and how technology can either flatten or honor embodied knowledge depending on how it is designed and used.
Within this landscape, I develop conceptual frameworks, creative methods, and practical protocols that allow embodied practice to remain culturally situated, ethically grounded, and legible across fields.
My Research Language and Method
- Ethnodanceology — a cultural framework for studying and creating dance within lived social, historical, and communal contexts
- Technosomatics — a creative process that uses multimodal and technological inputs to generate embodied work
- Ethno-Somatic Cultural & UX Design — design approaches that integrate embodied knowledge, cultural context, and user experience
- Annotated Embodiment — methods for ethnographically situating movement in an ethical way (Ethics in Embodied AI)
