Jess Hepin Huang
TAIWAN
Multidisciplinary Artist & Space Maker
Freediving | Water Dance | Contact Improvisation | Eco-Soma
Born in Taiwan and shaped by years of nomadic life, Jess has spent the past seven years learning from oceans, forests and the communities that gather around them. Rooted in contact improvisation, freediving, embodied arts and the Eastern contemplative traditions she grew up with, she creates collective experiences exploring the shared intelligence of oceanic bodies .
She approaches water as ritual and tender frontier, where we soften and remember a wisdom older than empire. Her work cultivates reciprocity and interdependence: sensing the more-than-human world as kin, and nurturing cultures of care rooted in reverence for the Earth.
Upcoming Events
May, 2027
California, USA.
AMPHIBIAN
Contact Improvisation & Water Dance Workshops
Contact Improvisation | Interspecies Intelligence | Instant Composition | Therapeutic Water Arts
June, 2027
Baja California Sur, Mexico
REMEMBRANCE
Somatic Freediving Retreat with Mobula Rays
Freediving | Water Dance | Aquatic Bodywork | Ethical Ocean wild life encounters in peak Mobula Rays Migration
June, 2027
Baja California Sur, Mexico
OASIS
Water Movement Art Residency
Eco-Somatic Meditation | Water Dance | Body-Territory Nature Arts | (Contact) Dance Improvisation
Aug , 2027
Choco, Colombia
AZUL
Oceanic Residence - Body, Dance and Nature.
Ocean Dance workshops | Aquatic and ecosomatic meditation | creative workshops (body-nature) | ecological walks in Kuna territories in Colombia and Panama
Featured Past Projects
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Upon The Shores of Silence : Contemplative Dance Retreat I & II
2025
Indonesia & Taiwan -
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Subtle Waters : Ocean Movement Art Residency I,II & III
2023-2025
Bali, Indonesia -
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Sanctuary of Wild Arts
2026
Ekawa Bamboo Village, San Carlos, Colombia
In Collaboration with fuerzas.space -
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ORIGINS : Freedive Eco-Somatic Retreats
2023 -
Indonesia, Mexico
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