Born in Toronto/Tkaronto, lo is a performance maker whose performances involve body-based experiments to generate intuitive felt research and unique site responsive behaviours through spontaneous utterance, impulse-based scores, energetic flows from unconscious content, object manipulation, unexpected humour and inter-relational proposals with audience.
lo has exhibited her “moving weirdly” work at conferences in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, New York, Mexico City, Berlin, Amsterdam and Glasgow. lo has exhibited at venues including: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival, Harbourfront Centre, First Thursdays at Art Gallery of Ontario, Luminato Festival Online, Nuit Blanche, Panoply Lab NYC, LADA DIY, Flowchart at Dancemakers, Summerworks, PS We are All Here, Fringe and Rhubarb Performance Festivals in Toronto and has livestreamed performances for SPAR²C (Shifting Praxis in Artistic Research, Alberta) and Out of Site-Chicago.
lo is the recipient of a Kathy Acker Award (2019) and FADO Performance Arts Centre Live Art Award at Summerworks Performance Festival (2016). In 2022, Lo received a Chalmers Award to develop performance methods and was selected for a Studio 303 residency in Montreal to develop her participatory embodied research score, COMPASS.
Lo has teaches at Sheridan College and at Toronto Film School, is a mentor with Maxine Heppner’s Choreographic Marathon, and has facilitated as a guest artist at Concordia and University of Toronto, School of the Alternative in North Carolina, Embodied Interventions Residency at Le Parc Performing Arts Research Cluster, Toronto Dance Theatre, and the Centre de Création O Vertigo in Montreal.