Image of Andrea Nann by Alex Christus and Su PinWen by Huang JyongJhe
Andrea Nann and Su PinWen
Venue
The walk will start at Community of Hope garden (560 C Parliament St) and end up near Riverdale Farm
Tues Aug 12, 11:00 AM
Presented by CanAsian Dance
60 Minutes
“Wandering Talks” invites a pair of Asian diasporic dance artists to be in conversation as they lead a group of people through a neighbourhood of personal significance—for example, where they live or work.
Wandering Talks is a public series that allows us to learn more about artists in a casual setting, connecting a place and people to an artist’s creative process.
Reflecting on how one’s life and art weave together and how these two perspectives sit with each other. Our identities both influence and are influenced by the places we inhabit. Each wandering talk will “emplace” each programmed artist: They will weave place, life, and art together as they explore topics of interest to them, focusing on their relationship to the land and the communities that gather there. Being in conversation with another artist adds dialogue and sociality while reflecting that we are formed and reformed through our encounters with others.
Andrea Nann
Andrea Nann’s artistic practice brings her in to relationship with her self and Others — other people, other places, other environments, other realms. She is a contemporary dance artist, deep listener, founding artistic director of Dreamwalker Dance Company, and founder/ co-creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, an embodied community practice. Through her work Andrea enlivens Dreamwalker’s invitation to awaken and experience one’s self in relationship with All that Is. She creates experiences by activating attunement to memory, sensation, perception and nature, and is curious about how contemporary approaches can emerge through collaboration with individuals of diverse backgrounds and diverse ancestry. Based in Toronto/Tkarón:to, Andrea is a graduate of York University’s Department of Fine Arts, and was a member of the Danny Grossman Dance Company for 15 years. She has contributed to the creation of new works by over 70 dance and theatre creators from across Turtle Island and has been recognized with awards for choreography, performance, contributions to the performing arts sector and for her work in community actioning. Andrea dances to reach across distance and to experience herself and others in celebration of possibility, plurality, imagination, originality, and belonging. She believes that dance and embodiment can shift attitudes and ways of being, tuning us into what makes each of us distinct, to what we share, and ultimately how we can live together in wonderment and peace.
Su PinWen (he/they)
Su PinWen (he/they) is a Feminism Artist. Artistic Director of KuaBo Dance Theatre and residency at Chiayi Performing Arts Center. Su holds MFA in Choreography at Taipei National University of the Arts and Bachelor in Philosophy at NanHua University. Su’s work challenges the heteronormative revolving around notions of gender, feminism and nudity. Since 2013, SU’s researched and practiced tactile culture. They take dance into conceptual art beyond the esthetic genre.
Su’s works have been performed in Dance Umbrella international dance festival(London, UK), Camping Lyon 2025(France), PuSh International Performing Arts Festival(Vancouver,B.C.), SummerWorks performance festival(Toronto, CA), Liveworks Festival(Sydney, AU), Melbourne Fringe Festival(AU), Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid (Madrid, ES), Dancing in Autumn(National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei), Taiwan Dance Platform (WeiWuYing- National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts), Camping Asia, Taipei Arts Festival, Taipei Nuit Blanche, We Island Dance Festival (Shulin Arts Center), Intertidal Dance Festival (Chiayi Performing Arts Center), Taipei Fringe Festival…etc.
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