Jiāng Níngxù 江凝旭 is a multi-disciplinary artist specializing in dance and performance. QUEER. ASIAN DIASPORA. ADOPTEE. These roots have been and are actively cultivated to expand upon their own artist practice and philosophy. Dance is art but also culture making, tradition keeping, a reflection of peoples and history and an ever changing practice. They owe much to previous teachers and artists including Professor Iris Rosa, Selene Carter, Juel D. Lane, Evik Abbott-Main and Stafford C. Berry Jr.

Xù plays with words, visual art mediums and movement to process, but also fantasize of worlds to be. They hope to offer glimpses of these worlds and help others cultivate their own - for safekeeping or sharing. Currently, she is working as a scientist. He can be found @jiangxudance on instagram.

How does the narrative of Cruces/Intersections affect you?

We start by opening up the space and the crossroads. This beginning like life like making decisions is echoed. Eleguá as the Orisha of roads/caminos their energy and representation is spread throughout the piece. As a movement and intention practice it is one I'm coming back to and welcome the connection and history with Eleguá. On stage we, the dancers, are together as we individually, but also communally traverse these paths. Sometimes we're focused solely on ourselves traveling alone to stay on a path and other times we acknowledge each other even work together traversing a path. In some ways there is independence and loneliness in taking a certain road, but also know that likely there were ancestors on similar journeys and that some roads need more than just one brave person. A movement is made up of multiple people as this dance and narrative is.

What has Cruces/Intersections made you think about in your own life?

Cruces/Intersections brings to mind the paths I decided to take and the ones taken for me. Some were quick decisions or accidents and some were a much longer process. In some ways I think of my life before I fell in love with dance and after. The first time I loved anything felt in touch with anything it was dance, not myself not my family, and it was quite "late." A Chinese adoptee, raised in a white conservative environment, who turns out to be queer. Much seems predetermined just from that, but deciding to study and continue loving dance changed much. Priorities shifted, worlds were opened and love and care not understood before was wanting to grow. In many ways dance did not feel predetermined, almost accidental, almost not right, but that decision has lead me to many paths I do not regret and has let me meet many people.