Chisao Hata

As a performing artist, community organizer and global citizen artist, Chisao’s original chore-poems weave issues of identity and social justice. Her performances in Hiroshima, Japan, Cuba, New Mexico, Ontario, Oregon and Poston, Arizona are rooted in Japanese American history. An original work (2019)GAMBATTE: An American Legacy, expresses stories of dispossession, resilience and humanity. She is an Oregon Humanities Conversation Leader, Tsuru for Solidarity Healing Circle Facilitator, Vanport Mosaic Stories in Movement Co-director, and an Organizing Artists for Change at the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland. She recently choreographed The Journal of Ben Uchida for Oregon Children’s Theatre and Yohen for Passin Art and Portland Pla