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Justine Yvonne Suhr (Yves Zephyr) is a multidisciplinary artist and performer based out of San Diego, CA. Throughout her life, Justine has found herself immersed in the realm of creative self-expression and the many forms it takes on. Coming from a family of musicians, writers, painters, and creative spirits, it was only natural that she followed suit in developing her creative talents. In her early years, she explored the world of theater and took on several leading roles in school productions. Later, she turned her focus to playing Clarinet for her middle and high school marching bands, as well as concert symphonic bands. However, once in high school, she also joined her school’s marching band color guard, performing at numerous competitions throughout Southern California. Outside of school, she was selected to perform with the Gold Drum and Bugle Corps Color Guard and Alchemy Independent Winter Guard, touring cross country and competing on a national level within the DCI, WGI, and WGASC competition circuits. To improve her movement skills for being on a competitive color guard team, she took several dance classes at community college. But these extra-curricular dance classes quickly proved to be where she felt most at home when it came to her creative expression. At age 19, she chose dance as her major, marking the beginning of her formal dance training. She then committed four years at Grossmont College to honing her dance skills in the Modern, Ballet, Hip Hop, and jazz genres. As well as performing and choreographing for several dance productions at her college. Eventually, she graduated with her AA Degree in Dance, and from there, she was accepted into the SDSU Dance Program, where she studied dance making, contemporary modern, somatic movement practice, human anatomy, filmmaking, and pedagogy for three years. While at SDSU, she performed in several dance productions, produced several dance films, and choreographed an original dance for her Senior Capstone. In her spare time, she also took on the responsibility of working at the San Diego Dance Theater (SDDT) as a Work Study and Instructor’s Assistant, where she had access to the dance classes the studio provided and performed in several productions for the SDDT School. Currently, at age 26, Justine is an active dance artist within the San Diego artists community and works closely with the local goth nightclub/cabaret and artist collective, "Club Obsession." Within this collective, she is a member of The Sisters of Mercy Gogo Troupe, a cabaret performer, and acts as the nightclub’s performer liaison. As an artist, Justine’s creative work focuses on the human condition. What does it mean to exist as an abstract being in a world that craves formality and predictability? Accepting one’s spiritual identity. Understanding collective spirituality. The occult. The mysteries of love, life, and death. And the intelligent design of reality. Through creative expression, she forges pathways away from the confinement of definition and into the realm of ineffable description. The goal of her artistic works is rarely that of explaining a narrative but rather seeks to invoke empathy and challenge one’s perception of truth and reality. She is excited to bring this research and pop-up workshops to the With;OUT Dance Project and Rope Collective. 

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