As a choreographer and creative director, Akasi has made headway premiering creative works nationally and internationally promoting her love of cultures, community, and becoming known for her process of mixing movement styles and art forms. She was selected as a featured artist for BlakTinx Dance Festival Dancing on Edge, sharing “Called to Action,” a visual rooted in social justice and in response to the revolution in 2020. Akasi was also recently invited as a guest choreographer for Riverside Community College Dance Performance 2021 Kinetic Conversations, premiering “We Rise Up, We Get Down,” a collaborative work created with Lindsay Rapport celebrating Black lives and embodying revolutionary radical joy. She showcased “Moving into Me,” a personal narrative and choreographic work, at several dance festivals in Southern California as a featured artist, and her Contemporary/Modern movement piece entitled, “Homeless,” debuted for the BlakTinx Dance Festival at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Akasi graduated with a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree at Saint Mary’s College of California, completing the Liberal Education for Arts Professionals Program, LEAP, in Fall 2021. She is also a part of the Theta Cohort of Global Dance leaders that completed the Leadership Tools for Dance Leaders Program directed by Dr. Arnel Calvario in the Summer of 2021 and is a Certified Yoga Instructor/Facilitator that successfully completed the People’s Yoga Training Program in the Summer of 2020.

As an Educator and creative healing arts practitioner, Akasi loves to share her passions for expanding the horizons while fusing life experiences, cultural exchange, practices of self-awareness, cultivation of community, and outside of the box approaches, into her creative works, workshop experiences, and classes. She explores the intertwining worlds of Hip Hop, Jazz-funk, Modern, Contemporary, the art of Freestyle, Krump, Dancehall, and Dances of the African Diaspora, sharing her intuitive connection and love for these art forms with every student she encounters. Her hopes are to invigorate her students with the undeniable energy of movement medicine as a holistic healing process, a journey of liberating self through expression, and finding purpose with each intentional step, groove, and move. Akasi has been invited as a Guest Choreographer, Dance Instructor, and Teaching Artist for nonprofit organizations, competition teams, dance companies, performing artist companies such as The Establishment in Austin, Texas, Dance Container Cancun in Cancun, Mexico, The LoneStar Ballet Academy in Amarillo, Texas, Alisa Dance Academy in Austin, Texas, DanceScape Dance Co. in Cancun, Mexico, XSIS Dance Crew in Quezon City, Philippines, Contra Tiempo, DREAM COMPLEX, 4CLAB, Antics Performance and Mount Saint Mary’s University Health & Wellness Program in Los Angeles, California. In 2021, she offered her LuVpEaCeNsOuL MoVeMeNt Workshop Series, “Mind Your Movement,”at the Summer Intensive experience in Amarillo, Texas at the LoneStar Ballet Academy, and was selected as a Resident Artist offering the workshops through Pieter Dance Space as a virtual experience. Her “Grounded Grooves” freestyle flow and improvisational movement focused classes have steadily grown in 2021 and have been integrated into her dance workshops for Professional Performing Artists. As a community organizer Akasi has facilitated events such as Liberacion de La Luna Llena, Mujeres de La Luna Llena, Freestyle Fridays, and Cultural Exchange Residencies, empowering artists to celebrate their power, presence, and share their stories with the world through movement, music, connection, and divine energy.