At the age of 6, Thayer emigrated from Tokyo, Japan to Brooklyn, NY. She has since lived with a dual sense of identity: internally Japanese and externally a funky, who-knows-what Brooklynite.

Her Japanese-American identity inspired her to examine the impact that culture has on our bodies; how the swirling alchemy of physical and social forces influences the ways we move through the world. In this piece, audience members moved through Northrop at the U of MN’s backstage spaces, among the dancers.