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The creation of motion memoirs comes from lived experience. Its founding comes from an avenue into grounding presence and protest from an undocumented immigrant status. In my evening length work of This is where/I Begin…, a contemporary modern dance work, I physicalized my immigrant upbringing with creating a minimalistic and abstract spatial pattern that was removed by the end of the performance. The work fleeting and unbound, such as my undocumented status in the United States, was a comment and interrogation on how undocumented and immigrant bodies are not dynamically rooted in the national consciousness.