Summer ChoreoWreck 2026: De/Reconstructing Dances - AADF Edition

Our AADF2026 Collaborative Residency choreographers offer up their works-in-progress to the "wrecking" process as part of their choreographic research. They will play with each other’s work and remake it live, in front of an audience! Other dance artists are also invited to “wreck” the resident choreographers’ works. This is a rare opportunity for audiences to witness the creative process of dance making. Learn more about "wrecking".

Each "wreckee" has 2 hours to go through the entire wrecking process (two wreckings each). The wreckee first presents the original work. Then their "wreckers" will get 45 minutes each to remake the dance on the wreckee, followed by a showing of that remake. After each wreckee’s full session, there will be a short "talk back" with artists and audience.

There is a 55 minute break between the two wreckee sessions.

*PC: Photo of Forest Lee by JDP Designs

Schedule of Events

10:00am: Greetings & Introduction

10:15am: Wreckee Session #1 - Forest Lee

12:15pm: Wreckee Session #1 Talk Back 

12:35m: Break 

1:30pm: Re-introduction of Wrecking 

1:40pm: Wreckee Session #2 - Hannah Joo

3:40pm: Wreckee Session #2 Talk Back

Audiences are welcome to come and go throughout the event. You can pick and choose which sessions you’d like to watch, take a break whenever you need, or stay for the whole event!

*PC: Photo of Hannah Joo by Bobby Gordon

Meet the Wreckees

Forest Lee

“This will be my very first wrecking! Choreographing my piece for this residency has been my first experience really delving deep into a personal choreographic process of my own, and deconstruction and reconstruction are tools that I haven’t explored too much before. So, I’m really looking forward to gaining more perspective, insight, and inspiration from the other artists. I’m eager to see what will be revealed!” - Forest Lee

PC: Lindsay Rosenberg Photography

Learn more about Forest - HERE

Hannah Joo

"Through the wrecking process, I’m excited to invite in different AAPI perspectives and put our bodies in conversation around our shared and unique experiences. In my ongoing exploration of how diasporic communities reclaim and perform tradition, I look forward to unlocking new questions, critiques, and discoveries on this topic through collaboration and play. How can the wrecking process reveal the ways we both honor our deeply held lineages and reinvent cultural practice? How does this way of witnessing each other shape our sense of community and shared histories?.” - Hannah Joo

Learn more about Hannah - HERE

Meet the Wreckers

Odessa Mae Uno

Odessa Mae Uno (she/her) is a Filipino American movement-based artist based in Southern California. She holds a BFA in Dance from CalArts and has performed with DISCO RIOT, Fresh Congress Dance, and artists including Solange and Gerard & Kelly. Her choreographic work has been commissioned by Malashock Dance and San Diego Dance Theater. Odessa’s practice centers on community, empathy, and the belief that dance cultivates connection, critical thinking, and emotional awareness.

Instagram @odessauno

Adie San Diego

Adie San Diego is a Filipina-American dance artist based in LA. She holds a BFA in Dance from Point Park University and an MFA in Choreography from CalArts. Her movement derives from her diverse training in classical forms, street styles, and improvisational research. Adie’s work has been presented in Raleigh, Durham, Pittsburgh, San Diego, and Los Angeles. She is also the founder of BALLET4LYFE, a series of beginner-intermediate level ballet classes for adults in the LA community.

PC: ASD Media

Instagram @adiesandiego