Special Delivery: in partnership with battery opera
July 29/30/31: A Weekend Training Encounter with Sherwood Chen and Lee Su-Feh
Photo of Sherwood Chen by Robbie Sweeny
Photo of Lee Su-Feh by Yvonne Chew
Cover image of Lee Su-Feh by Joerg Letz
Masks will be mandatory for this workshop
To Register: Space is limited for this workshop, please pre-register by clicking here or the “Book My Spot” button below.
Day One Ticket (July 29): $100
Day Two Ticket (July 30): $100
Day One and Two Ticket (July 29 & 30): $200
Day Two and Three Ticket (July 30 & 31): $200
Full Weekend Ticket: $250
(Attending the 3rd day alone is not an option due to the cumulative nature of the workshop)
*Please note TSV Class Cards/Promos are not valid for this workshop*
Class Description:
A Weekend Training Encounter
July 29-31, 2022 at The Dance Centre
10am - 1pm Sherwood Chen
2pm - 5pm Lee Su-Feh
This dynamic research-oriented intensive begins every morning with a simple, warming torrent of protean progressions led by Sherwood Chen, moving us across and through the floor—predictably, rhythmically and incessantly—to revel in our bodies and unmaster with a lucid exhaustion. This will be followed by proposed scores (partnered, group or solo) and improvisation études to investigate porosity between flesh, bone and imagination.
In the afternoons, Lee Su-Feh will share her algorithm Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go (TMHMLMG). TMHMLMG is
An algorithm for dancing with the planet.
An algorithm for dancing with your beloved.
An algorithm for dancing from enough-ness.
Using pleasure as our compass, we will tune in to ourselves and to others while we play in explorations of breathing, moving, sounding and listening with our whole body intelligence.
Lee Su-Feh and Sherwood Chen became long-distance friends during the pandemic through a sharing of movement and singing scores over the internet. You can access their album, Hwelang! here: https://leesufeh.bandcamp.com/album/hwelang-3
They will be meeting for the first time in-person in this training forum.
*If you need access to a sliding scale option between $150-250 for the full weekend please email trainingsocietyofvancouver@gmail.com.
This workshop is eligible for CADA West training subsidy reimbursement for CADA West members.
A Weekend Training Encounter is possible thanks to the support of Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council and the City of Vancouver.
SHERWOOD CHEN (US/FR) has worked for and / or with artists including Grisha Coleman, Xavier Le Roy, Min Tanaka, Anna Halprin, Amara Tabor-Smith, Ko Murobushi / inkBoat, Sara Shelton Mann, Anne Collod and Yuko Kaseki. He leads movement research, training and workshops for dancers and performers internationally, and has trained performers in places including the Centre National de la Danse Pantin, Marameo, Independent Dance / Siobahn Davies Studios, La Ménagerie de Verre, Oficina Cultural Oswalde de Andrade, ODC, Arlequi, Chez Bushwick, Centro Nacional de las Artes (DF) and the Maré Center for the Arts. For over twenty years, he has contributed to Body Weather research initiated by Tanaka and his associates, working with members of founding generations including Oguri and Christine Quoiraud.
LEE SU-FEH is a dancer and choreographer who has spent the last 40 years exploring the human body as a site of intersecting habits and histories. Born and raised in Malaysia, her early training began with a mix of traditional and contemporary South-East Asian dance and theatre. Since then, she has studied contemporary dance and theatre in Europe and North America with a variety of teachers and has along the way, developed a somatic approach to voice and movement deeply influenced by her lifelong studies in Chinese martial arts, Qigong and Daoism. For the last 12 years, she has integrated Fitzmaurice Voicework® into her practice; and is a certified Lead Trainer in the Fitzmaurice Institute. Fitzmaurice Voicework® is a somatic approach to voice that “explores the dynamics between body, breath, voice, the imagination, language, and presence. It encourages vibrant voices that communicate intention and feeling without excess effort.” (Catherine Fitzmaurice, founder of Fitzmaurice Voicework®)