Presenting REfract in the Spatial Storytelling section at SIGGRAPH. Through choreography, motion capture, avatars, and real-time game engines, REfract explores how movement can shape narrative, agency, and presence across physical and virtual worlds.  2026

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Presented “Generative AI and the Transformation of Choreographic Agency” and shared

creative research on REfract, focusing on hybrid embodiment, artistic vision, methods. SWEAT Hong Kong International Dance Workshop Festival. 2025

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Invited panelist at the 2023 ArtTech Forum (Switzerland), joining a discussion with Susanna,

Phillip, and Gilles on cutting-edge developments in digital dance. 2023

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Invited to present the research in VR dance and join a panel discussion at Dance and Somatic

Practice Conference in UK, as a dance scholar. 2023

Collaborated with Stella Speziali, Sue Zhang, and Joe Whitmore on XR performance experiments and shared research at A+E Lab Residency (AΦE Company, UK). 2025

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Initiated a research residence at Cie Gilles Jobin, Studios44/MocapLab, Switzerland, collaborating with technologists on virtual interaction and motion capture systems. 2024

Welcome participant in a 50-min interactive motion-capture session — where your body becomes data, movement turns into digital echoes, and dance meets technology.

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"Choreographing the In-Between" - a groundbreaking 2-day workshop exploring the intersection of body, technology, and digital identity through dance.
📍 A+E Lab, Historic Dockyard Chatham
What you'll explore:
Motion capture & body-as-data translation
Digital avatar creation & character embodiment
Somatic practices meets immersive tech
Co-creating living landscapes of movement
July 24-25, 2025 | 2-5pm GMT

As the co-initiator artist / workshop guide, host with Toria for a participatory performance–workshop filmed as a documentary, exploring growth, decay, and transformation through movement, projection mapping, soundscapes, wearable art, and shared food rituals overnight from 10 pm to 7 am. The work navigates grief, renewal, intimacy, and slowness as resistance, inviting participants to explore sensation, taste, and collective ritual as forms of embodied knowledge.

9 hours

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As institutional teacher, tough dance composition class in CalArts that integrating with contemporary dance appreciation and physical scores.

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TechxDance Workshops, Colby University · Invited by Prof. Ben Altschul for an interdisciplinary exchange on Dance, Technology & Mind · 2024

As a Visiting Artist & Guest Teacher of the School of Dance, HKAPA, held 4 workshops for BFA and MFA dance students in 7 months. 2021-2022

Virtually teaching TechxDance workshops for students from philosophy departments at Colby University. Thanks to Professor Ben’s invitation and long-term exchange on subjects on Dance & Tech & Mind. 2023-2024

As a choreographer, guided physical dance and community sharing after a performance, at Lund Theatre, CalArts. 2024

As a Guest Artist at the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts, HKAPA, held 2 workshops for MFA students, exploring creative methodologies for phygital performance in 2 weeks. 2023

As an artist and instructor, initiated Tech Dance Media workshops for multimedia creators in Roxy’s Tanzlabor in Ulm and Dock 11 in Berlin, Germany, and Label Dance studio in Shanghai, China. 2023

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Zelia’s digital somatic practice reconstructs bodies' conditions, stimulating organic dialogues between live dancers, participants, and visual data within Extended Reality technologies. These empower the performances synthesizing the physical and digital. 

Taught Ballroom intro, Body Conditioning & Somatic Practice, in Tai Po Art Centre, Hong Kong. 2021-2023

Presented a talk on ID Transfer in future dance VR, at 25th Digital Research of Humanity and

Arts Conference, Berlin. 2021

As a Guest Artist, sharing dance exercises and improvisation techniques for pre-professional dancers in different situations. 2022

Held 2 dance workshops at the Helsinki Festival. Provided for people without dance training. 2015

Taught an online workshop on Latin Dance for medical 

practitioners during the pandemic. 2020