Trina Acacia is a dancer, choreographer, diver, and performer based in Bali, Indonesia. She grew up as a traditional dancer, performing for ritual and community purposes, and now develops her practice through choreography, diving, and embodied research in response to the social and ecological concerns shaping the places she inhabits.
Her work brings human grief into relation with the losses unfolding in the living world, asking how dance might make these connections felt, not merely understood. Through participatory movement, performance becomes a space to encounter our dependence on other forms of life and to practice care beyond the human.
Her engagement with nature, especially the ocean, has shaped an embodied movement methodology informed by breath, pressure, suspension, gravity, and underwater orientation. Through diving and underwater exploration, she translates bodily encounters with the sea into choreography, spatial relationships, and performance.
Through her Kallola Project, she is building an open community practice along Bali’s southern coast, where people from different backgrounds learn through movement, water immersion, coastal mythology, and encounters with marine life. Dance sessions are accompanied by beach cleanups and fieldwork with coastal communities and fishers, connecting embodied inquiry with the ongoing work of caring for shared environments.
Her recent trajectory includes CFI Indonesia–Australia, Southeast Asian ChoreoLab at Rimbun Dahan, a coastal art residency in Cambodia, and Intersecting Peripheries at Toyooka Theater Festival, Japan.