Vancouver based interdisciplinary media artist, director, performer, researcher and mentor who works with film, sound art, new media and dance/theatre performance.
Vancouver based interdisciplinary media artist, director, performer, researcher and mentor who works with film, sound art, new media and dance/theatre performance.
This project seeks to integrate Chinese traditional folk dance from the disappearing tribe Uyghur in the Xinjiang province of China, as well as Qi Gong, a traditional Taoist practice connecting with the energy of our body in order to shift its movement and flow, in a contemporary new media dance performance presentation integrating with digital technologies. This project deals with the context of migration, immigration issues, modernization, ethnic heritage, cultural & race politics and decolonization. One of our goal in this project is to bridge the new immigrant/Chinese speaking community with the European settler community and making traditional art more accessible to the wider audiences today.
Current version:
Co-Choreography/Creation:
Dong Mei Huang
Sammy Chien
Dancer/interpreter:
Dongmei Huang
Joshua Ongcol
Kevin Fraser
Zahra Shahab
Alex Tam
preliminary choreographic/costume ideas for this piece
An example of Dong Mei & Sammy’s collaboration. An excerpt of rehearsal with Dong Mei’s choreography and dance with Sammy’s live visuals/new media/projection design.