Leadership

“As an artist, I intend to communicate the way I see the world as a human participant in a giant global landscape- with compassion, critique, humor, and depth- a kaleidoscope of beautiful, horrific, irrational, whole, misguided, miraculous, magnificent complexity.” 

Krista (she/hers) is an interdisciplinary choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Her work is based in embodied experience, social justice, civic engagement and human-to-human interaction. Artistic Director of MovingGround, she is committed to engaging interdisciplinary collaboration that bridges performance work, education and activism toward a socially just world. Read more here

Emma (she/he/they) is a Bay Area-raised dancer and choreographer currently based in Lisjan Ohlone lands (Oakland). She is an Emerging Artist in Residence at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, where her work explores the embodied legacies of US empire in her Chinese lineage, and how these legacies interface with whiteness, assimilation, and citizenship structures within their Chinese and white identity. Emma holds a BA in Dance and Anthropology from Bowdoin College and has shown work at the School For Contemporary Dance & Thought, Dance Mission Theater, Bowdoin College, and Dancing Earth Creations. Emma’s practice weaves together dance, oral history, archival research, and poetry, so they are thrilled to be supporting Moving Ground’s interdisciplinary and community-oriented work.