“let all the
children boogie”
- David Bowie, “Starman”
Hi, I’m Tracey.
I choreograph stories that explore universally experienced, yet complex themes through striking, visceral, and candid movement.
PANELS
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Dec 2022 - April 2024 // a dance ~horror film on grief. Following the death of a friend, a trio embarks on separate, yet interconnected paths to process their grief, traversing parallel realms to confront eerie and off-kilter embodiments of their deepest emotions.
PANELS premiered to a sold out audience at the historic Great Star Theater in San Francisco on February 9, 2024. Now it is available online!
GRIEF wrote me a letter
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Jan - Feb 2024 // An evening length stage work. 11 intertwined solos, co-created between myself and each movement artist, where they expressed personal perspectives on what grief is.
This stage work was inspired by a writing exercise done in PANELS film rehearsals, where we stepped into our grief, and wrote letters to ourselves. Each person’s grief exhibited divergent personalities with yet universal qualities. These “grief personalities” were the starting point for each solo.
NEW INTERNET USERS
A foundational research initiative2018 - 2021 // This project is the one I’m most proud of during my time as a Researcher at Google. I led the New Internet Users (NIU) initiative, a multi-year, multi-country study that uncovered the needs of underrepresented populations who are not yet online across Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Nigeria. The insights shaped Google’s global strategy, with high level findings featured in The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and at I/O 2017 and I/O 2021. This study also drove a collaboration with IDEO to create a Designing for Digital Confidence Toolkit.
choreographer | filmmaker | researcher
About Me
In high school, I wanted to avoid gym—climbing ropes specifically—so I enrolled in dance, an evasive maneuver that turned out to be life changing. In class, I quickly gravitated to contemporary movement, creating 10+ pieces for the company to perform, and was nominated to choreograph for the Fort Mason Vision Series Festival under the mentorship of Deborah Slater.
However, in the following decade, dance became sporadic as I obtained my B.S. (Textiles) and M.S. (Human Factored Design), and developed a career in global research at YouTube and Google. I danced here and there, completing Broadway Dance Center’s ISVP summer program, adult classes at Academy of Ballet SF, and learned local dance styles (such as garba and konto) during my fieldwork in places like Brazil, India, and Nigeria. In 2021, I decided to commit to dance, a lifelong love on the back burner. I left my job and dove into training, completing intensives with ArtÉmotionUSA, the Martha Graham School, The Galen Hooks Method, and Runqiao Du Ballet Coaching, among others.
I aim to establish a career as a choreographer-director across mediums, and to inspire others to combat the voices that tell them that they can’t go after what they want.