Clarissa Renee Dyas is a movement artist, creator, and performer with roots in the SF Bay Area. She centers her artistic practice around the intersection of identities and the truthfulness of improvisation including investigating black + asian lineage, queerness and the belief that movement is a spiritual practice to liberated justice. Clarissa graduated from San Francisco State University in 2017 with a B.A. in Dance and a B.S. in Health Education. They have been honored to be a company member of Robert Moses’ Kin and ka·nei·see | collective, a founding member of bananarama, and have performed in works by Talli Jackon, Raissa Simpson, Rachael Cleveland + Armineh Astanboos and is a company member of Flyaway Productions and Zaccho Dance Theatre, both since 2019, and Lenora Lee Dance since 2020. Currently they are collaborating in several new works with choreographers Sara Shelton Mann, jose e. abad, Chibueze Crouch, Gabriel Christian and Joe Goode Performance Group.