Tricia Choi
CreatorTricia is bringing the medicine of (street) dance, music, and community life — inviting every body to experience the power of collective movement rooted in meaning and ritual.
SOCIAL FUTURESDISTRICT 5
ABOUT TRICIA
Tricia is a multi-hyphenate creative, dancer, and community builder who has spent two decades living, creating, and growing roots in San Francisco. Rooted in hip hop, waacking, and dance culture, she has performed, toured, and used movement as a tool for healing, self-authority, and collective liberation. Her belief is that lasting change starts from the inside out: that people won’t always turn inward willingly, but they will when it’s wrapped in joy, celebration, and community. From jazz and basements to Family Constellation gatherings in her own parlor, Tricia has spent her life building containers for the values she wants alive in the world.
INTERESTSBody-Mind Coherence, Movement as Medicine, Joy as Power, Breath as Anchor, Connection over Collection
VISION
EVERY BODY MOVES
Tricia's activation is rooted in the belief that our best future draws from pre-conquest wisdom, where movement, ritual, and gathering are central to how we connect, heal, and grow. Street dance, born from marginalized communities as a physical response to exclusion, transforms rhythm and raw presence into personal and shared power. Through a grounded, intentional experience — weaving lineage, somatic practices, and collective celebration — attendees are invited to co-create culture rather than simply consume it, feeling firsthand what it means to be part of something larger than themselves. By widening the circle to include non-dancers, Tricia offers everyone direct access to the connection and medicine that dance has always carried.
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Tricia’s Picks
Check out some of the materials and resources that have helped shape Tricia’s visions for what could be.
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Take this journey with Joseph Campbell in A Joseph Campbell’s Companion. On every page you’ll find the words of Joseph Campbell from his Esalen Institute lectures supplemented by relevant excerpts from his past writings and the writings of others he often quoted to illuminate his work.
Bel Canto
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.
Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves.
Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.