The Act of Memory investigates how dance can be remembered through the body—how gestures, sensations, and silences carry the imprint of personal and collective histories. In collaboration with Bobbi Chen, I return to a shared choreography from our time in the same company a decade ago. Through conversation and movement, we unearth the invisible choreographies that linger in our bodies—those shaped not only by practice, but also by the political, social, and personal conditions surrounding the female dancing body.

What does it mean to remember a dance through the body?
What circumstances shaped its formation?
Can the pre-dance states—memories, emotions, or conversations—become dance scores in themselves?

In this process, conversation becomes both an archive and a choreographic tool. It is through talking, recollecting, and exchanging that we begin to notice where the dance already exists—hidden between words, pauses, gestures. As we stage the act of remembering, a new dance begins to emerge: one that unfolds in real time with the audience, as both witness and co-conspirator.