Dance in the Diaspora: Kristin Jackson’s Life of Dance and the Migrant Body

• Main Author: Corpus, Rina Angela
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Philippine contemporary dance; dance and Philippine diaspora; Kristin Jackson; dance in the postcolony; Philippine studies; meditative movement; autobiography in dance; Dance; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies; Theatre and Performance Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol2/iss2/7; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1041/viewcontent/6_Corpus.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article is an account of Filipina-American choreographer Kristin Jackson’s dance history and selected repertoire. Jackson is one of the few Filipina dance artists based in the US who articulates her bi-cultural identity, and has created and performed a sustained body of works in both America an...