Hi, Jess here
Dancer, artist, facilitator, freediving instructor and curator of gatherings
I was born and raised in Taichung, Taiwan. For more than seven years I have lived nomadically, moving through movement and ocean communities across mostly South East Asia, recently South America.
Since 2023 I have curated retreats, gatherings and art residencies, including the ocean movement residency Subtle Waters. I have curated events and shared works in Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, the United States, Mexico and Colombia. I currently live in Bali, Indonesia.
My PathAt 17, working aboard a catamaran back home in Taiwan, I met the ocean for the first time and fell deeply in love.
At 19 I began traveling alone. Solo travel taught me to trust the unknown. Nature taught me to slow down. Embodiment changed how I live inside my own skin. From these grew a clear longing: to give back to all that has held me so generously.
In 2020 I became a freediving instructor in Bali.
Around the same time, while living in community there, I discovered contact improvisation.
My path then led me to Dharamshala, India, to study Tibetan Thangka painting, and later to Thailand to deepen my contact improvisation practice with TOWARDS, the Centre for Embodied Arts and Transformative Learning.
Today I teach freediving under the Molchanovs system, bringing dance, somatics and contact beneath the surface so that depth becomes an inner journey as much as a physical one.
My gatherings move between ocean and land, stillness and play. In a time of screens and ecological loss, I offer spaces to return to direct sensing: breath, touch, tide, soil.
Here, nature is no longer a backdrop but a living presence we learn from and belong to. I hold this work humbly, trusting that care, once felt in the body, becomes action in the world.
Freediving, water dance and contact improvisation have woven into one thread. It is how my art meets healing and wellbeing, and how I return to myself each day.
Beyond formal training, so much has come simply from living. Countless mentors, teachers and guides have shaped me, whether they knew it or not: people, places, relationships, oceans, moments. I can't name you all here, but from my whole heart, thank you for helping me become who I am.
The more I learn, the more I return to this truth: the body, like the water, is always listening. Learning to listen back guides my work.
