paris cyan cian is a New Orleans Black girl playing and composing with devotion and impermanence. As a movement architect, scholar, and curator working with and through various interdisciplinary forms of performance art, cyan’s creative work mobilizes embodied memory and ecological play into a worldmaking practice. In the activation of living, she is concerned with notions of Black girlhood, spatiality, hurricanes, and duration. cyan cian received her BFA/BA in Dance with a concentration in social justice, gender women’s studies from Hollins University (2018) and MFA in Choreography at Roehampton University, London, U.K (2021).