Jess Chiayi Seetoo is a director, choreographer, performance artist, and educator who creates in modalities across theater, dance, film, and digital media, with approaches ranging from writing, choreography, improvisation, documentary theater, to literary adaptation for performance. Driven by critical inquiries and privileging embodied intelligence and mindful awareness in the creative process, she responds to challenges and emotional stirs in her implicated environment and the flows of private and collective memories and imaginations, resulting in cross-disciplinary, often cross-cultural creations. She has received support from the Shanghai International Arts Festival, Shanghai International Dance Center, and various art curations, showcasing works at the Shanghai International Dance Center Theatre, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Spazio Teatro No’hma Teresa Pomodoro (Milan, Italy), China Contemporary Dance Biennial, Rockbund Art Museum, the Bauhaus Centennial Commemoration in Shanghai, Suzhou Tongli Lizé Girls' School, Yuz Museum, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, ICICLE Space, among others. She is based in Shanghai and teaches at Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Realms of the Liminal is a fluid platform conceived by Jess that gathers cutting-edge talents in performing arts, design, education and others to collaborate and explore methods, launching original works. Embodied intelligence, critical sensibility, and artistry led to experiments and creations at the intersections of theater, dance, text, environment, image, and intermedial performance. The spectrum of projects ranges from humanistic concerns to a focus on the artistic form and characteristics of media. Aspiring to poetic illumination and probing the mysterious source of imagination from within, we generate realms of the liminal, to dance, think, and forge connections.