Community Engagement Activities

This work was originally presented at Simon Fraser University for the Contemporary Arts as part of the choreographer’s MFA project studies. As a collective we would love to bring the piece back to post secondary dance students and emerging artists in the community to demonstrate how research in a semi academic setting has the potential to grow into professional work. Our presentation will involve a workshop while the choreographer explains her process and research. We hope to share some of the ideas and research questions that we had prior to the creation period, along with some challenges and difficulties we have encountered over the course of three years.
We will create a 5-minute excerpt version with the local artists. The local artists will experience a similar process of creating movements and developing them into choreography, by using written text as an inspiration. The development of the work will be collaborative and artists will be asked to contribute their own ideas to the work. We would like to work with artists who have a minimum of 1-year experience in theatre or dance. The workshop will be led by Tomoyo Yamada and the dancers in yane ura.