Photo credit: Lula Belle Jedynak
Class Description:
This will be a contemporary class that involves both improvisation and choreographed movement sequences, with an aim to feel good in the body while using functional mechanisms of movement. We'll explore sequences that contrast between tension and control, and fluidity, release, and length at the joints, while discovering different qualities and dynamics in our dance. We'll move to music ranging from lo-fi jazz to FKA Twigs, and will set a tone together that prepares us to take us on the rest of our day.
Shion Skye Carter (she/they) is a dance artist originally from Tajimi, Japan, who lives and dedicates time to her artistic practice in Vancouver, Canada as a guest on the unceded, ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Through choreography hybridized with heritage artforms that interact with digital and sculptural objects, Shion’s work looks inward to the facets of her intersectional identity as a lens to process the world around her. As co-founder of olive theory, an interdisciplinary duo with musician Stefan Nazarevich, she collaborates to experiment at the intersection between embodied performance, sculptural installation, and live sound. Shion has performed her work across Canada, and has interpreted the works of artists such as Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance), Wen Wei Dance, and Ziyian Kwan (Dumb Instrument Dance). She holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University, with training in various styles of contemporary and modern dance, including Graham and Cunningham technique.