Nāwāhineokalaʻi (Nawahine) Lanzilotti is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator raised in lower Mānoa, Oʻāhu, whose work focuses on decolonisation and sustaining indigenous practice through experimental performing arts.

 

Nawahine’s collaborations throughout the Asia-Pacific aim to engage diverse communities employing spoken word, movement, sound arts, and film/video projection. From 2012-2018, Nawahine lived in New Delhi, India studying Hindustani music and creating cross-cultural productions with her international arts collective PULSE Ensemble. 

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In 2019, she earned her MFA in experimental sound from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College with the completion of her thesis, "Nā Kai ʻEwalu: Fluidity and Fragmentation as Form in Indigenous Experimental Performance." Nawahine currently serves as the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Coordinator for East-West Center in Mānoa, O'ahu; her JEDI philosophy advocates for transformative justice through by centering indigenous methods and perspectives.