The Choreographers Notes:

Since 2018 I’ve been making The Tangible Hallucination of Rourou in the Daytime investigating my choice to live as a single, dance artist in NYC - breaking from culturally deep-seated expectations for a Chinese woman my age; and as the only child in the family of my generation, the overwhelming sacrifices I’ve made to be here. The joy of my free spirited education in the USA is complicated by the restrictions of my Chinese values and my consequent loneliness as artist and immigrant. This dance is a poem to myself and for myself, a re-experience of paradoxical moments - some thrilling, some beautiful, some quietly painful and many confusing - in my relationship to New York City and to my dreams. 

The story I’m making is to share with anyone who has dreams tethered to this city. Wrapped up together - the city, me and my desires - we are tangled, spinning, stopping, waiting and transforming. Using Jenga game pieces, shadows and light, tape and a rolling suitcase, I manifest a world of transient aspirations and defeats.