Studio Salon Series: Fall 2024
Studio Salon Series: Fall 2024
November 23, 5:00PM
Our Studio Salon Series returns, featuring works in progress by four local artists. This event will be live at What Lab (#202-1814 Pandora St, Vancouver) on Saturday, November 23 2024 @ 5 PM. In-person audience capacity is limited to 40 people.
LIMITED CAPACITY!
TICKETS BY DONATION ($5 - $20) ON ZEFFY - ALL PROCEED TOWARDS OUR SALON PROGRAMMING
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sujit Vaidya (he/him) is an independent artist living and working on the MST territories, also called Vancouver. His dance training is in a “traditional” dance form from India, called Bharatanatyam. In Sujit's current engagement with his dance practice, he find ways to situate his queerness within the rootedness of tradition and intergenerational knowledge. He's drawn to working with ideas around eroticism, body, gaze and intimacy. Sujit is interested in accessing slowness and in reclaiming/ realigning gaze around virtuosity through a non Eurocentric lens and in amplifying small moments/ gestures to register when curated with detailed attention to intent. He has predominantly performed as soloist. Sujit have made OFF CENTRE in 2018, Sacred Sacrilegious in 2021, Srngara and Breathe In The Fragrance in 2023.
Photo credit: Laura Lee
www.facebook.com/sujit.vaidya.3
About the work:
I’m sharing an erotic poem from traditional Bharatanatyam repertoire. It is from a collection of poems called Ashtapadi’s. Through 24 Ashtapadis, the poet narrates the tumultuous relationship between Radha and her lover Krishna. In the 24th Astapadi, Radha and Krishna reunite after a prolonged separation which culminates into a night of intense love making. The morning after, Radha tells Krishna to soothe her body that he ravaged the night before with his hands cool as sandalwood. She tells him to paint designs on her breasts with deer musk. She asks him to fix her eyeliner that he ruined with his lengthy passionate kisses. She asks him to fix her hair that he mercilessly tousled in the throes of their lovemaking. She asks him to adorn her and put her together now that he’s had his fun. This Ashtapadi was taught to me by my teacher A. Lakshman
Marion Landers (she/her) is a mixed South African and Irish Canadian actor, choreographer, teacher and playwright from Vancouver. A dancer in Zab Maboungou/Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata, The Afro-Bahia Dance Company, Laura Monteiro and the Afro-Jazz Drum & Dance Ensemble, Thelma Gibson. A Creative Team Member on numerous theatre productions, including an Award for Best Choreography for Once On This Island, Fabulist Theatre, 2018, Broadwayworld.com). Marion's full-length works: I Live Still were co-produced by the National Congress of Black Women Foundation/Vancity Office of Community Engagement/BC Arts Council and For Coloured Girls Out Of The Womb by the Vancouver International Dance Festival/VIDF. A Sessional Instructor at SFU's School for Contemporary Arts for a decade, Marion holds a BFA Dance, SFU, MA Theatre, UBC and numerous credits in Theatre, Film & Television. Marion's MA Thesis, Lost Lesotho Princess/Landlord Ears is an original play and essay about her South African heritage. She is the mother of two dynamos, Solomon Irama and Bilal Ouro Akondo.
Photo credit: Jay Hirabayashi
FB: Marion Landers
About the work:
Blues Suite / Movement (s) - Who is that time-traveling woman? That surviving and thriving woman. You can’t quite put your finger on her ‘cause she’s faster than lightning. And she can bring the storm. She’s Yansa’s daughter...!
Jennifer Aoki (she/her) is a Japanese-Canadian performer, dancer and choreographer based in Vancouver, BC. She completed her formative dance studies through Simon Fraser University, receiving a BFA in Dance in 2010. She also studied Contact Improvisation on a scholarship at EDAM in 2011.As a dancer Jennifer has worked with independent choreographers and dance companies such as Tomoyo Yamada, Jenn Edwards, Meredith Kalaman, Machinoisey, and Body Narratives Collective. She performed in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and was lead dancer in Seasons: A Magical Musical. Her own choreographic work has been presented all across Canada as well as Seattle, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Presentation highlights include Dancing on the Edge, Nah Drahn, 12 Minutes Max, Vines Arts Festival and Fringe Festivals across Canada. Jennifer’s current projects focus on Japanese-Canadian internment in the 1940’s, blending historical materials, personal reflection and movement research to create work that physicalizes intergenerational trauma.
Photo credit: Andi McLeish
IG: Jenn_aoki
FB: Jennifer Aoki
About the work:
Inspired by the original music composed by Mary Jane Coomber, this new solo work, What Remains (I Just Wanna Dance), delves into the profound theme of life and growth emerging from the shadows of war and adversity. Our histories serve as a rich tapestry of experiences that shape our identities and perspectives. While we carry the imprints of our past, we possess the innate ability to transcend its constraints.
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ACCESSIBILITY
What Lab is wheelchair accessible by a set of doors leading from the alley between Pandora St. And Franklin Ave. The front entrance has a flight of stairs.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you for your continued donation and support that helps Co.ERASGA’s annual arts programming and provides economic support to all participating artists.
We humbly acknowledge that most of Co. ERASGA's work, including the Studio Salon Series, takes place on the traditional and unceded lands of the Coast Salish people including the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations, the original stewards and caretakers of these lands.
Our Studio Salon Series is a recurring series featuring local artists sharing works-in-progress with the community in an informal setting.
These events are free to the public in an effort to create more communication between artists and the community while their works are still in development. After short excerpts are shown, the featured artists engage in conversation with the audience around the topics presented in the work, creation, and development.
