To my knowledge, cultural production is defined and informed by personal history, geography, cultural norms, and education. Born to a French mother and a Cambodian father, the experience of growing up first in Cambodia and then in Thailand, before moving to France and the USA, offered me the extraordinary opportunity to straddle the cultures of Cambodian and Western dance. However, it has also placed me at the heart of tragedy. The central preoccupations in my work revolve around issues of identity, diasporic and hybrid cultures, and personal and collective histories. I have been exploring, both physically and conceptually, ways in which tradition and experimentation can be synthesized to generate new forms of performance. My choreographic research has focused on how these concepts coexist within one body, the way my background has shaped my dancing, and dance-making. Ultimately, I view this work as a form of resilience, a means of moving forward positively from the wounds of history.