Kari Tai is the founder of the artistic collective Home Ground. Her poetry and dancing inform the group’s artistic response. Kari grew up in Kalispell, Montana in a unique octagon house designed and built by her father. Her childhood experiences living on a rural, forested 20-acre lot under the Big Sky influenced both her movement style and writing focus. “Choreopoetry” is how she likes to think of the interplay between dancing and writing.