A collection of creative projects rooted in healing, justice, and the refusal to disappear.
Where the body remembers. Where resistance moves. Where stories shapeshift into spells.
I believe storytelling is a survival strategy. A portal. A way to braid grief, imagination, and community into something sacred.
Below are some of the creative projects I’ve brought into the world — part film, part dance, part prayer for the futures we deserve.
featured projects:
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A short film about dancing, in community, toward wholeness.
In this participatory action research project, I guided a small group through weekly sessions where we shared stories of body dysmorphia, trauma, and healing. Together, we created a dance that held our grief and joy.
The film won awards at the New York Mental Health Film Festival and Tribeca Short Documentaries (2017).
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A movement offering to the ocean and each other.
Through weekly gatherings, I guided a group of amazing humans as we explored ocean climate justice and our emotional connection to water. We researched local NYC waterways and coral reef restoration, and created a community performance rooted in embodiment and action.
We were inspired by the anthology All We Can Save — a powerful collection of essays by women climate leaders. In the spirit of that work, we invited water conservation groups to speak and connect.
Sea Dance was part ritual, part climate education, and part movement toward oceanic liberation.nline can make all the difference.
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A documentary project honoring interspecies connection and ancestral song.
This project brought me to Brazil to follow Michaela Harrison. Michaela Harrison is a devoted daughter of Yemanjá and a whale whisperer. She has made it her life’s mission to care for and bless the Earth’s waters. She is a powerful vocalist and healer, on her journey of community building and spiritual restoration.As Creative Producer and Director, I collaborated with SoMad Art Gallery and producer Destinie Adélakun. In this footage, you see a snippet of the fundraiser, with a host of brilliant Brazilian drummers, including Viviam Caroline.
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A desert dream of reclamation and return.
Riverblood tells the story of dried-up riverbeds in the Sonoran Desert of Phoenix, Arizona — and what it means to dream water back into them.
Through movement, memory, and myth, the film in process traces environmental injustice, land theft, and the legacy of incarceration. It features footage from Miguel Levya dancing in the river that witnessed the birth of the director, Sia Luna.
This is a story about restoration as refusal. About healing the cracked places. About remembering that water and home is a birthright.
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A love song for the ones who refused to disappear.
Sapphic Sirens is a storytelling and writing series rooted in lesbionic femme queer dreaming. It centers the lives and longings of sex workers who love women. Those who shapeshift, who survive, who write our own myths.
This project is a sanctuary for stories that don’t fit into respectability politics.
A place to honor longing, lust, survival, grief, and girllove.
“Someone, I tell you, will remember us.”
— Sappho
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A shapeshifting story of incarceration, time travel, and survival.
This ongoing storytelling project draws from my lived experience as a survivor of juvenile incarceration. It blends memoir, mythology, science fiction, and abolitionist imagination.
The story moves through timelines and transformations — rooted in the belief that no cage can contain a soul that knows how to shapeshift.
I’ve never made anything alone.
All of this is in dedication to the girl-prisoners I left behind as I fled for my own freedom.
🌹Everything I ever do will always be for you, Neva. 🥀 Rest in peace.
I will not know peace until I know you are free, and our mission is accomplished.🌹
Gratitude to everyone I’ve worked with, and everyone who has given me feedback and wisdom to keep creating:
DP, Musician, and Aries Artist of my life: Michael Muchnij. You are the definition of ride-or-die. Nearly everything beautiful I’ve ever created bears your touch. Your talent runs deep. You have an extraordinary gift for seeing someone’s unique beauty and amplifying it to its fullest expression. I’m endlessly grateful for the many projects we’ve birthed into the world together. I’ve learned so much from you and will always be in awe of what you create. Near or far!
Composer: Allison Spann — “All My Lives” is featured in this reel. You siren goddess. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without you. You’ve taught me how to direct and produce with real love and care for everyone involved, how to hold creative boundaries while still being wildly generous. You’re a jack-of-all-trades and the sunshine in every voice note. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
DPs: Anaya Thorn, Alice Plati, Cauê Santana, and Alex Miller.
Talent: Naima Pohler (dancer and choreographer), Miguel Levya (dancer and choreographer), Anaya Thorn (actress, dancer, and choreographer), Camryn (actress and professional sapphic siren), Viviam Caroline (singer and performer), Renee Glitch, Olivia Lengyel, Emerald Baker, Danielle Schwab, Maria Teresa Fidalgo Azize.
Gratitude to Good Move NYC for letting me do so many quirky projects in your beautiful studio space, with your beautiful community. Gratitude to my teachers and role models: adrienne maree brown, Autumn Brown, Mariame Kaba, Richie Reseda, Sage Hayes, Dr. Natalie Bullock Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Dona & Sue from Generative Somatics! Janice Lee, Melissa Leto, Shira Hassan, and the merwitch of words and water Lidia Yuknavitch. Most of you I have met, some of you I have only fangirled over, a lot of you I did both to and I am not sorry about it. ALL of you have been teachers and guides who have helped me find my way when I didn’t know there was a path forward.