​Chih-Peng Lucas Kao
Jorja Follina
Dance Artist and Movement Teacher based in Perthshire, Scotland
​Through performance, collaborations and community engagement, my practice aims to benefit collective wellbeing and connection through improving access to arts, movement and the outdoors.
As a performer, I find the contrast between expansive, complex movement and nuanced somatic experience rewarding, playing between opposing states to experience and express through the body. With a particular interest in outdoor, site specific and interactive experiences, I am interested in exploring performer-audience and environmental relationships, offering new perspectives on what a performance can be.
As a facilitator, I aim to nurture encouraging and inclusive environments in which participants feel invited to move, observe, explore, discuss and play. My teaching practice spans across dance, yoga and somatic movement, also incorporating the outdoors and integrating other artforms.
Offering a range of classes, workshops and community events from a value driven perspective allows my work to reach a wide range of communities, exploring the intersections of many movement languages and artistic disciplines. I am interested in ways to bring agency and individuality into guided practices and in blurring the lines between workshops, performances and collective experiences. ​
- First Class BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance Performance -
The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance
- 200h Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher -
Sampoorna Yoga India
- Level 2 Fitness Instructor -
- Level 2 Nutrition & Health -
- DanceBase DEBS Artist 2020-21 -
- Scottish Dance Theatre Dance Development Intern 2018 -
- Advanced Foundation RAD Ballet -




