May 9 – 10
7pm
Dance
Sliding scale $20 - $40 plus GST
Through their collaborative excavation of The Whole Beast, the artists invite the audience into an ongoing conversation about how cultural memory is made and remade—a living exchange between bodies, generations, and the unfolding world.
Encounter a living archive as it moves between bodies: in this evening of performance and conversation, Juolin Lee dances excerpts from Lee Su-Feh's 2008 solo The Whole Beast. Together, Su-Feh and Juolin reflect on the ethics that have shaped four decades of artistic practice, examining how choreographic knowledge transforms as it passes from one body to another. What gets preserved in this transmission? What gets lost, mistranslated, or newly discovered?
Lee Su-Feh (she/they) is a dance artist whose practice sits in the interstices of performance-making, pedagogy, ritual, writing and dialogue facilitation. They split their time between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where they were born and raised, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ Territories, a.k.a. Vancouver, Canada, where they make their home. Over the past 35 years, they have created a provocative body of award-winning trans-disciplinary work that interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced histories and habits. Alongside this trajectory in performance-making, they have pursued a lifelong study and practice of Chinese martial arts, Qigong and Daoism, all of which informs their approach to dance and movement. Since 2010, Su-Feh has been a student and practitioner of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and is a certified Lead Trainer of the work. Su-Feh’s current preoccupations involve somatic algorithms, performance-making as collective nervous system attunement and imagining societies that dance.
Juolin Lee is a Taiwanese-Canadian dance artist living on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. Her dance journey has been shaped by training in Modus Operandi and enriched through working with Vancouver-based companies such as The Biting School, Hong Kong Exile, Co.Erasga, Odd Meridian Arts, and Battery Opera. Juolin is deeply interested in the connections between living and non-living matter, creating abstract narratives through her shifting relationship with inanimate objects. Her work explores stories embedded in the spaces she inhabits and the cultural heritage she carries. Seeking to weave her Taiwanese roots into her Western dance training, Juolin uses imagination to dive into a transformative journey encompassing ephemeral relations, chameleonic emotions, and fantastical tales. Guided by curiosity and openness, she continues to explore her evolving sense of self and interconnectedness with the world around her.
