Chew Shaw En is a dancer, performance maker and socially engaged artist-facilitator. Shaw works from the perspective of the body and has an interdisciplinary practice.
Shaw's choreographic practice is influenced by her interest in rehearsal as an opportunity to practice new ways of coexistence. She works with score, task-based devising, scene building and improvisation. Stylistically, she visually draws upon the spectrum of fantasy to the vernacular, rooted in her love of fantasy and world-building, and also her socially engaged work with people and communities. Her research interests have been centred around smallness, geological events, and forced displacement.
Ang Kia Yee is a writer and artist who works with text and performance to propose and enact alternative presents and futures. Most of her projects are transdisciplinary and have spanned poetry, essays, short stories, plays, performances, audio walks, workshops, and video.
Her performance practice is rooted in theatre, and informed by ballet, Suzuki Method of Actor Training, Viewpoints, and Odissi.
Her current research interests centre on the affects and effects of flatness (screen & image dominance) and fragmentation (atomisation, isolation, and polarisation of individuals) in our internet-mediated present, as well as strategies for working with them.
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About an exchange of ecologies
an exchange of ecologies is an interdisciplinary exchange between performance practices situated in dance and theatre. It derives from the artists' desire to develop skills as collaborative co-directors, co-performers and designers.
During the residency period, Chew Shaw En and Ang Kia Yee will workshop skills, ideas, and experiments across their mediums without the pressure to produce or present a creative result. Through this exchange, they will use time and space to observe, listen, and document observations of each other's improvisational choices and interactions, seeking to build greater capacity as performance-makers.
an exchange of ecologies — workshop and sharing
19 Oct / 2 PM, 4 PM
