As an Artivist, my goal is to serve and connect communities locally and globally through the arts with a directive in sustainability, healing and cultural exchange. I’ve been working with various Dancers without borders initiatives that I continue to build on.
About the Artist
Shanna Lim is a Washington DC-based second-generation immigrant of Chinese Thai, European and Indigenous American descent. She is an interdisciplinary site-specific performance and visual artist whose work is focused on the audience's interactive plain of human connection and shaking the challenges of limited realities. Shanna is an Integrative Arts Educator at Words Beats & Life, Producer of The Groove Junkies, Resident Healing Movement Artist at INOVA Schar Center, and Director of Dance for American Arts Chamber (South Africa). Shanna has taught at the University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka), Irish World Academy of Music, and the Resident Artist at Davis & Elkins College.Shanna Lim website An artist Called Shanna Performance Dance & Body Art
Artist's Statement
My work is driven by the inquisitive, the strange, and the rawness of Artism. As a vessel for human social structural research, I believe in the aesthetic that the human body is a tool for endless expressiveness and concentrated communication. My performance vocabulary thrives in a fusion of social Street Styles, Post-modern and Asian dialects of dance. I weave theatre, architecture, Clown, installations, collaborations, body art, and handmade up-cycled wearable art into storytelling. I take pride in creating each work within the power of presence, making the audience vital to the arc of my story. My work has been showcased in festivals and centers around the world, including By the People Festival, the Swedish Embassy, Newseum, Art All Night, 202Creates, and Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Festival, Museo de San Ramon (Costa Rica), Artizen Conference (South Africa), and IDW (Sri Lanka). Currently, directing film projects centered around sex trafficking, missing and murdered Indigenous women, the immigration crisis, and the criminal injustice system.Booking
Booking Price: $2,001-$5,000
Willing to travel, open to Museum, living installations, organizing mobile site specific company performances, Art Exhibitions, Unique requests, Bringing environmental spaces and venue areas alive, engaging art in health facilities, Dance and performance festivals, international collaborations and US performance art ambassadorship and Master Classes. Also Body Art representation functions and exhibits. (My side work is a Body Painter with my company Thoughts In Glitter)
Depends on location and space and wearable art requests if needed. Lighting and projection if called for. All is depending on event and creation for that unique experience.
WIlling to travel local, national, and International.
Holly bass (kennedy Center) 202-459-7658
Erica Rebollar (dance Co)202-631-8659
Shodekeh Talifero shodekeh@gmail.com
deborah riley (Dance Place) deborahrileydanceprojects@gmail.com
Emily Oleson (Dance program Coordinator) 540-421-4451