Angela Sebastian is a Filipina Dance Artist teaching Ballet and Contemporary Dance at Western Washington University (WWU). She acquired her MFA in Dance from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM).

She was a member of Airdance Philippines Contemporary Dance and Aerial Arts Company and the University of the Philippines Dance Company (UPDC), which presented opportunities to participate in festivals across countries in Asia, such as Taiwan, Malaysia, and China. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music, majoring in Dance at UPD, Quezon City, she worked for a year and a half for Hong Kong Disneyland as a Parade Dancer. She then continued to graduate school in Hawaiʻi, where she performed and choreographed for Convergence Dance Theatre and actively participated and created community projects.

As an educator, she maintained a great connection with the communities through teaching in dance schools in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Hawaiʻi. Now, she hopes to continually contribute to perpetuating the significance of art and making it part of the conversation through her current research in Philippine Dance: How Traditions Flow through Time, spaces, and Body.

The class will explore and focus on finding connection to our breath and inner rhythm. Participants will dive deeper into self-discovery and sensations of movement while learning to acknowledge the different patterns, impulses and rhythms the community offers in the space.