crystal j
sasaki
movement poetry performance video
I make my art to explore improvisation, intimacy and the psychospiritual.. to promote play and embodiment.. and as research into what haunts me, multiplicities of identity & culture, and portals into world building.
My work has received funding from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and been presented by Ten Tiny Dances, East Portland Arts and Literary Festival, Portland Underground Film Festival and others.
My work has received funding from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and been presented by Ten Tiny Dances, East Portland Arts and Literary Festival, Portland Underground Film Festival and others.
Crystal J Sasaki
Shangri-la Sisters, on Love - 2021
w. Salty Xi Jie Ng
Creative Music Guild Outset Series at Kex Hotel, Portland
Adaptating - 2021
Ten Tiny Community Healing Dances
Lents Park, Portland
Dyad: Dance and Music Duos - 2021
improvisation w. musician Darian Anthony Patrick
PWNW + Portland Jazz Ensemble, Performance Works NW
Healing Harlequin - 2019
w. Salty Xi Jie Ng, Grace Amber & Saliha
In-Between Festival, Kickstand Comedy, Portland
<3 U - 2018
video installation;
Peripheral Forms, Performance Works NW
Autumn Weaves - 2018
w. Salty Xi Jie Ng & Jared Maurice Dancler
EPALF & Intersect Festival at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
Whale Fall - 2018
w. musician Jared Maurice Dancler
Ten Tiny Dances, Beaverton
Coppe - 2017
Choreographer in Residence Showcase
New Expressive Works, Portland
Red Water - 2015
Pure AQUWA Festival by PAAJ Collective, Los Angeles CA
Alma - 2015
w. poet Alana Seigel for Frank O’Hara All Star Reading
Mattress Factory, San Francisco
Aardvark Meditations - 2014
video art, w. EV Echovia
screenings: Portland Underground Film Festival at Clinton St. Theater 2018; The Pain Store by Timeless Infinite Light, San Francisco 2016; Trigger Magazine Release at EM Wolfman, Oakland 2015; Pool-side Picture Show in Joshua Tree 2015
Intimacy - 2014
Salta is July Dance House, Oakland
2021 Nourish Series, Woodlawn Park, funded by RACC
2018-2019 Movement Feels Research Group, Portland OR
2014-2015 Sonic Meditations Research Group, Oakland CA
2022 Box Office, Danspace, St Mark’s Church NYC
2021 Dancer, Three Betrayals, Catalina Ouyang, NYC
2021 Choreographer, Out Dance Project, Boom and Bust, Virtual
2019-22 Program Admin, Headwaters Theater Pod, Water in the Desert
2018 Childrens Dance Teacher, Mt. Scott Community Center, Portland
2018 Somatic Artist, The Grandma Reporter Is. 2, Salty Xi Jie Ng
2017-18 Accounting Assist. for TBA, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
2017 Dancer for Direct Path to Detour by Takahiro Yamamoto Midwest Tour
2015 Arts Admin Fellow, Counterpulse Theater, San Francisco
2008-2018 Freelance Artists Model
Education
2021-2022 Deep Listening Institute, Intensive Facilitator Trainings
2014- ongoing Butoh workshops with Tebby W.T Ramasike, Kudo Taketeru, Minako Seki, Mari Osanai, Natsu Nakajima, Maureen Fleming, Ken Mai, Eiko Atake, Yumiko Yoshioko, Sankai Juku
2018 Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores
2017 Suprapto Suryodarmo’s Amerta Movement
2016-2019 Margit Galanter’s Cave Coast Collective
2016 BA Dance and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
w. Amara Tabor-Smith, Sean San Jose, Trinh T. Minh-ha
2014- ongoing Butoh workshops with Tebby W.T Ramasike, Kudo Taketeru, Minako Seki, Mari Osanai, Natsu Nakajima, Maureen Fleming, Ken Mai, Eiko Atake, Yumiko Yoshioko, Sankai Juku
2018 Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores
2017 Suprapto Suryodarmo’s Amerta Movement
2016-2019 Margit Galanter’s Cave Coast Collective
2016 BA Dance and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
w. Amara Tabor-Smith, Sean San Jose, Trinh T. Minh-ha