Jas Lin

Biography

Jas Lin 林思穎 (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and movement facilitator born and based in Los Angeles on unceded Gabrieliño-Tongva land. Lin stages exorcisms for purging choreographies of the learned body and shutting down internal and external surveillance cameras that suggest there is a Proper way to move through the world. Their practice of deep feeling is invested in re-membering what the body has been manipulated into forgetting. They value performance as a ritual of deep presence– by returning to our senses, we can reawaken to our possibility, agency, and relationships within the world around us. Jas worships the elsewhere and the otherwise, and loves to co-create shared fugitive worlds and live in them. Jas has danced in commercials for Nordstrom, Samsung, Facebook, Apple, and QUAY, music videos for Grimes, The Weeknd, and Tinashe, and live performances for Cassils, Hiroko Tamano, and Melanie Martinez. Their solo performances, choreographies, films, workshops, and lectures have been shared around the world, including at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Danshallerne Copenhagen, the V&A Museum, NOWNESS Asia, SXSW, MOCA Los Angeles, Power Station of Art Shanghai, and Kassel Dokfest. They have also choreographed and movement directed touring artists, such as Mitski, Melanie Martinez, and Phoebe Bridgers. Jas is committed to the life-long processes of un-learning and un-teaching hierarchical, Othering, and superficial ways of moving, being, sensing, and knowing. they believe movement to be a manifestation and actualization of potentiality– that together, we can dance the possible into being.