paris cyan cian


1996

climate crisis residency: a studio in the woods (2024),  by jose cotto
bas du fleuve (2024), by yrécha gay jheneall
alt. home residency (Los Angeles, 2022), by kelli scates
modjeskamodjeskamodjeska (2023), fernando lopez
bas du fleuve (2024), by yrécha gay jheneall
alt. home residency (Los Angeles, 2022), by kelli scates
climate crisis residency: a studio in the woods (2024),  by jose cotto


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paris cyan cian is a New Orleans Black girl playing and composing with devotion and impermanence. As a movement architect, scholar, and curator working with and through various interdisciplinary forms of performance art, cyan’s creative work mobilizes embodied memory and ecological play into a worldmaking practice. she is concerned with notions of Black girlhood, spatiality, hurricanes, and duration. cyan cian received her BFA/BA in Dance with a concentration in social justice, gender women’s studies from Hollins University (2018) and MFA in Choreography at Roehampton University, London, U.K (2021).


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“It is the daily that will bring about the necessary shifts in perception that make change possible. Vision helps us remember why we do the work. Practice is the how; it makes the change and grounds the work.” - m. jacqui alexander