LinsDerry  Week0

In 2012, I launched L i n s d a n s as the platform for my solo performance work after a decade of dancing internationally with companies from New York, San Francisco, and Montréal. Launching L i n s d a n s was akin to launching a start-up. My early performances took place in multi-purpose studios with make-shift lighting and seating. When I finally crossed the chasm back to the world stage to share my solo work at the Beijing Dance Festival in 2016 and then at Korea’s International Modern Dance Festival (MODAFE) the year after, it felt like the impossible had been done. From this experience, I learned that (almost) anything is possible and (almost) anything can be learned, especially when the desire to ‘do’ and ‘make’ is all-consuming.

After many years exclusively in performance, I am compelled to make interdisciplinary work that harnesses emerging technology and principles of Speculative Design in order to amplify the body and activate the space we inhabit. I have spent my life studying the technology that is my body and somatically creating with it. Now, I wish to push my creativity to the exterior and MAS.863 is how I intend to do this.

Presently, I am a Harvard Graduate School of Design student in the MDes Program with a concentration in Art, Design, and the Public Domain. I am hungry to learn digital fabrication methodologies in order to diversify my artistic practice. I anticipate a steep learning curve in How to Make (almost) Anything; it is going to be demanding. But I am ready. And I am so in! #gottawannit #maker