Another dimension to see Body and the World
FILM
Another dimension to see Body and the World
FILM
Another dimension to see Body and the World
FILM
Another dimension to see Body and the World
FILM
Dance / Theater / Film / Installation
Zelia's selected works investigate how choreography can reveal and reconfigure relationships between bodies, environments, technologies, and systems of meaning.
Half God of Rainfall
Between thunder and breath, between court and sky—The Half God of Rainfall is a visceral, movement-driven performance exploring power, identity, and the cost of becoming something the world doesn’t yet understand. Zelia designed dynamic visual environments for a mythic narrative blending Yoruba and Greek cosmologies. The work wrote by Inua Ellams, Directed by Kobina Hagan. Audiences follows Demi, born to Modúpé—a mortal Nigerian woman—and the Greek god Zeus. Demi rises to global basketball fame, exploring power, myth, and reclaimed agency.
The project presents a fully structured reimagining of the Achilles myth, choreographing not only physical bodies but also physical and virtual cameras, environments, and perspectives. Mythology, embodiment, and digital landscapes intertwine, allowing dance, design, poetry, and interactive play to coalesce into a living, evolving narrative shaped by presence and care.
In the digital world, there is a vast desert formed by accumulated possibilities. Individuals often search for interests and meaning in solitude.The dancer, Zelia, engages and coexists with her virtual avatars, folding together in the faint light. Refraction, reflections, responses and reactions occur in delicate moments of dialogue and choice. The mirror image is never the same, and control is often reversed. Memories construct the future, and wounds become the reason for rebirth. Actions become poetic verses leading toward the future. Audiences participate alongside the dancer in various choices arising from bodily perception, creating a dynamic and intimate relationship between humans and digital interfaces. This adds more consideration of humanity and language of care to future communication in the AI era.
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As a media artist, builds the Video Installation Series (2022–2025). Exhibited at Hangzhou Center Art Museum (CAM) inProgram of Transient Co-existence: Destructive RelationEditor. Explores digital embodiment, fragmented identity, andthe poetic presence in social experience.
A courtroom drama that makes a compelling argument for lifting the “eternal damnation” sentence on Judas Iscariot, the most reviled and unexplained sinner in biblical history. Set in a time-bending world between heaven and hell, featuring A-list religious figures from Saint Monica to Mother Teresa to Satan and many more. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s expressionistic examination draws on sound theological doctrine to advance its soul-searching meditations on betrayal, guilt, and redemption.
Shaping layered visual worlds to support mythic storytelling and embodied dialogue. Directed by Rishi Sharma (MFA Choreography & Film/Video, CalArts). Reimagining Indian mythological archetypes through movement, text, and projection, the work explores duty, love, loss, and cosmic balance.
Dancers as game players invite audience to co-create a multisensory, interactive dance adventure. Blending live performance, improvisation, motion-capture, projections and AR, the experience explores motion through various physical and virtual dimensions.
TechxDanceWorkshop
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.
