SAMPU FOR SAMMAY
Spirit. Lineage. Embodiment.
Support the Movement. Sustain the Future.
We are celebrating a whole decade of radical embodied work,
transformative performance, and purposeful community-building.
Join us in visioning towards the worlds know are possible.
Release CTRL+Shift
a movement practice for paradigm-shifting times
Friday, August 21 @ 7:30pm
Wave Studio
4501 E Carson Street
Long Beach, CA
Suite 114
How do we understand our body in relation to movements for collective healing and liberation? In these paradigm-shifting times, how can we access the inherent joy and ancestral resilience in our DNA? Together, we will investigate what it means to embody sacred reciprocity through our corporeality - drawing upon the gifts of breath, movement, sound, somatics, and contemplative practice.
Registration is required. Space is limited.
Please email info@sammay.art if you have any questions.
WHO I AM
I make dances that
create infinite possibilities
and usher in radical futurities.
I am an unapologetic brown femme navigating life through movement-based art, experimental performance, and spiritual practice. A diasporic child with an unending curiosity towards embodiments of liberation — I seek to unravel the layers of deceit we’ve inherited from colonization. My works encounter that which is often too difficult for us to speak of. Therefore, my invitation to you: let us sit with it, move through it, and be moved by it — for this work is only made possible in community.
Through re-membering, I am a bridge of reclamation for the generations past and those yet to come. I believe dance holds potentialities for us to heal, transform, and be more fully alive in this waking life. Beyond this — I simply desire for my community to feel whole while oceans away from our ancestral lands.
The Work
BLOOD
A young brown girl awakens to reclaim her ancestral inheritance from Maharlika. A descendant of balyana (priestesses) - believed to have been fed to the crocodiles by Spanish colonizers who feared their unmatched prowess. She re-emerges from the shadows to lead her people into the reckoning for collective liberation.
HINGA
HINGA (BREATHE) is a ritual performance film and time capsule honoring the sacred grief, life force, and resiliency of the Filipinx community in the Bay Area during COVID-19. Honoring the natural landscape of Yelamu / San Francisco and the spirit of SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District - this is a community ritual for healing, release, and dreaming for the future we are ushering in.
ritual for thrivation no. 2
How do we move from a perpetual stasis of survival to palpable thrivation? In a world that has forgotten its inherent responsibility to the earth and each other, ritual for thrivation no. 2 poses ancestral reverence, intergenerational healing, and urban-indigenous futurism as urgent and fundamental to alleviating our current climate crisis.