i was born in San Francisco. My gigantic Filipinx family geography triangulates The Bay, Wine Coun- try, and the Central Valley. Ohlone, Miwok, South- ern Pomo, and Yokut Lands. Site specifically, I am Golden Gate fog, I am oak savannah with the stench of Petaluma fertilizer season, I am crates of asparagus and bing cherries in the matter-of-fact heat of Stockton. My friends Damara and Patricia at the Joe Goode Performance Group have been dance-talking with me about belonging lately. How do we belong to the body? How does the body belong to a place? My first show with Joe Goode was in 2004 – “Hometown.”While having my shy, young dancer body tossed around by fellow JGPG members Liz Burritt, Felipe Barrueto-Cabello, Marit Brooke-Kothlow and Rachael Lincoln, Joe drew me out of myself and into myself at the same time – as Joe Goode does. He choreographed a palm sweaty moment for me to crawl into the orchestra pit of YBCA, alone out there to sing a song with a picket fence encircling my ribcage. Singing is a root in my family culture – my father is a singer, his mother was a singer, her mother… FAMILY IN SITE UNEXPECTED INTERSECTIONS OF SITE SPECIFIC DANCE MAKING WITH MY FAMILY’S SAN FRANCISCO ROOTS .
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