About Me
Lily graduated from Columbia University in NYC in May 2024, cum laude, where she studied Dance and Anthropology. She also attended the Columbia Summer in Venice program in 2023, and the Barnard Dance in Paris program in Summer 2022.
Lily’s work integrates dance, film, music, writing, and visual arts to explore life’s complexities through intellectual rigor and emotional resonance. She tackles politics, science, and spirituality with compassionate, innovative approaches. Her creative process employs ethnographic tools – including interviews, experimental documentaries, and collaborative methods – to cultivate exploration and authentic expression. Her works create symbolic environments where personal narratives intersect with broader social themes, inviting audiences to reflect on their own experiences through abstraction and profound emotional connection.
Lily’s latest project Afterlives is a video series and album with interviews, poetry, music, and dance with contributions from over 4o talented artists and reflective interviewees, beckoned by the compelling question of what happens after death. While in NYC, Lily was Assistant Director and a Dance Maker at Open Dance Ensemble, a modern dance company in NYC, for the Fall 2023-Spring 2024 seasons. As a Student Artist in Residence with the Movement Lab at Barnard College, she directed and produced two evening-length live performance works: Acqua Alta and Ultimate Catharsis 1. These multimedia works fused intellectual analysis with raw and poetic subjectivity, to engage with historical frameworks of art and knowledge, and contemporary issues, that connected with and meaningfully engaged audiences. In the Spring of 2023, Lily founded Essence, an improvisational artistic research workshop.
Movement as Inquiry: Dance and somatics, embodied creative research to investigate awareness, connection, and sentience
Multimedia Immersion: Combining dance, film, music, language, and painting to create immersive works that resonate emotionally and intellectually
Curation and Collaborative Arts: Designing innovative multi-modal art showcases while fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, participation, and education
Arts-Based Activism: Developing projects highlighting social justice, environmental sustainability, and empathy-driven activism through performance, exhibits, engagement, and peace-making change
Artistic Ecosystem Building: Creating sustainable methods to support artists by fostering connective resources, opportunities, collaborations, audiences, communities, and environments
