Spiralling Technologies

We will encounter Qigong exercises and martial arts drills in order to experience the spirals in and around our bodies. We will then improvise with spirals, alone and with others, following this score:

Tune in to the spirals inside and outside you
Follow one
Follow it until it meets another,
Follow it until it joins another,
Becomes another.
Follow it small. Follow it big.

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.