Identity. Exploration. Intersection.
In My Daughter, My Karma, choreographer Hiroko Kelly explores intergenerational relationships and cross-cultural identity by combining contemporary dance and spoken word with original dialogue.
Rooted in the second-generation immigrant experience, the work examines how cultural memory, care, and inherited values move through the body across generations. The piece questions how our ancestors' choices can influence present-day karma.
By examining these relationships, My Daughter, My Karma highlights the humanity and resilience of the immigrant experience and considers how cultural practices serve as a tether to identity across time and place.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Hiroko Kelly (Choreographer) (she/her) is a Japanese American choreographer, moving artist and researcher, whose work reflects the intangible truth of intergenerational connectivity rooted in Eastern philosophy. She received her BA in Dance from Kennesaw State University and her MA in Urban and Public Affairs from the University of San Francisco. She was a 2024 Dance USA Institute for Leadership Training Mentee and a 2024 Dance Canvas-Atlanta Contemporary Summer Choreographic Residency choreographer. This year, Hiroko is a Paint Love Artist fellow, where she is completing a professional certification in trauma-informed arts education. She is a company member of Catching Mangoes Dance and Full Radius Dance.
Headshot by Dustin Chambers
MEET THE DIRECTOR
Jacque Pritz (Director) is the founder and Artistic Director of Catching Mangoes Dance and serves as Assistant Director of Community Programs at Emory College of Arts & Sciences. A dance artist, producer, and project manager, she cbrings people together through arts, culture, and community engagement. Her creative work explores cultural identity, ancestral relationships, and the Filipino value of kapwa, which recognizes our shared humanity and interconnectedness. Outside the studio, she enjoys traveling and experimenting in the kitchen.
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ABOUT STRIPPED BARE
STRIPPED BARE INCUBATOR PROJECT created from a desire to use our theatre space to make a home for new theatrical works, and a place for emerging artists to flex their wings, Stripped Bare is an incubator to test-drive new ideas. Stripped Bare is about theatre at its core. A Stripped Bare project is not about sets, lights, props, and costumes. It is about actors, words, passion, movement, and ideas.
