Portfolio
Mutya is a trans-filipinx artist, dancer, writer, and community organizer powered by disability justice and centered in access. Their work aims to serve as a portal into visions of a world in which Sick, Crip, Queer bodies are met with warm embrace.
Below are some recent works, including personal projects, publications, and other initiatives.
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Show Pony
Show Pony is an essay published in Shortie Country’s third issue, that explores growing up in a normative, able-body centered dance studio in a Disabled body.
“So what does a Cripple possibly have to say about sport? Well, Everything. You take my resources, I keep my rythym, as Alice Walker said. Dance is a game of contortion and distortion and so am I. We linger on the margins because we are exiled from the center. We linger on the margins but we are still in the game.”
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Bed Movement
Bed Movement is a project organized by myself and Thai Lu, facilitating a virtual movement series centered in access for dancers of all levels, abilities, and capacities. The series was inspired by the desire to dance, even from bed rest, and the limitations of dance access for our friends with ME/CFS and related conditions.
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Vital Vessel
Vital Vessel is a series of sculptures and paintings that explore the added trauma that comes with navigating the medical system in a marginalized body. It explores social isolation, medical neglect, and our reliance on systems that constantly abandon us.
04
AXIS Summer Intensive
I am grateful to announce that I was chosen to recieve a scholarship to AXIS Dance Company’s Summer Intensive, where I will spend a week in Accessible Movement classes, facilitated discussions, Disability-Centered choreography and performance workshops, as well as a teacher training for Accessible Movement.
