Bio

Rhi Jade (they/them) is a trans, Korean-American dancer, artist, and performer whose practice investigates the corporality of queerness. Currently based in New Orleans, Rhi’s dance-works have been presented locally at the Contemporary Arts Center, the Marigny Opera House, Catapult, and Port; and broadly at REDCAT, Human Resources, Pieter, the Annenberg Beach House, and Highways. Rhi was a Hothouse artist-in-residence at UCLA as well as a Summer Holiday Resident at Pieter. They have had the pleasure to perform Trisha Brown's Floor of the Forest at the Hammer Museum, and work with Maya Taylor, Katherine Helen Fisher, Victoria Marks, Ros Warby, Jmy Kidd, Oguri, Jennie MaryTai Liu, , Mecca Vazie Andrews, and Ryuta Iwashita. Rhi holds a BA in World Arts and Cultures/Dance from UCLA and a Masters of Occupational Therapy from LSUHSC.

Artist Statement

Rhi spends their time listening to bodies, both for their vocation and their art. Deeply informed by working in healthcare, by being trans, and by abolition, Rhi is always practicing their practice, which is to say, they are always calibrating and questioning the spectrum of embodiment. Their work is explicitly anti-racist while focusing on ancestral heritage, queerness, and improvisation.