{"id":10325,"date":"2023-06-09T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2024-02-01T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:05:31","slug":"giant-dumpling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/2023\/06\/giant-dumpling\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Dumpling Sealed Secrets Keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Giant Dumpling Sealed Secrets Keeper by Dreamwalker Dance <\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

June 24 \u2013 July 22, 2023\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Open to everyone during gallery hours (12 \u2013 6 PM, Weds \u2013 Sat)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Centre A Reading Room<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dreamwalker Dance<\/b> is producing the <\/span>Giant Dumpling Sealed Secrets Keeper<\/b>, an installation art piece of a “giant” dumpling set upon a red tablecloth. As people pass by, they’ll notice a small slot opening in an otherwise tightly sealed \u2018package\u2019. Didactics will share tidbits of info about the significance of dumplings and the colour red in Chinese culture. There will also be a passage about the metaphor of the dumpling as a sealed receptacle for invisible or \u2018silently\u2019 held contents. Simple prompts will invite passersby to sit and reflect upon what has been held silent within themselves followed by an invitation to write, gesture, mark, speak into or stomp upon a square of paper to release a story, a secret, a memory or perhaps a burden that they are carrying that they wish to release. The paper can be folded (or crumpled) and placed in the dumpling through the slot.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The dumpling will be in \u2018residence\u2019, collecting anonymous offerings in various spaces across the region until the end of August, and then \u2018released\u2019 through a ceremonial fire during Light Up Chinatown in September.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This community activation is an extension of Dreamwalker Dance\u2019s Firehorse & Shadow<\/a><\/span>,<\/span> a performance piece which is premiering at Left of Main in Vancouver\u2019s historic Chinatown May 4th-6th.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Collaborator Johnny Trinh describes the Giant Dumpling as \u201ca manifestation of how we carry precious things, similar to how we create and consume dumplings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

About Members of Firehorse & Shadow:<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea Nann<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a contemporary dance artist, arts educator, founding artistic director <\/span>of Dreamwalker Dance Company, and creator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, an <\/span>embodied community practice. Andrea creates activations to reach across distance, <\/span>to experience others in celebration of possibility, diversity, connection and belonging; <\/span>believing that dance and intentional actions can shift attitudes and ways of being, <\/span>tuning us into what makes each of us distinct, to what we share, and ultimately how <\/span>we can live together in wonderment and peace. Through her work Andrea enlivens <\/span>Dreamwalker’s invitation to awaken and experience oneself in relationship with Self, <\/span>Others, Environment and All that Is.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Annie Katsura Rollins<\/b><\/a> is a Chinese\/Japanese\/English\/Irish theatre maker, arts\u00a0<\/span>researcher and community artist. She incorporates ethnographic research and <\/span>apprenticeship into her work, with particular interest in traditional puppet forms in <\/span>Asia and their intersection with ritual practice and community building. She was <\/span>awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to canvas Mainland China for the last remaining <\/span>shadow puppet artists in 2011 and named valedictorian in 2019 for her PhD on the <\/span>possibilities of preserving intangible performative culture at Concordia University. <\/span>Annie lives in Toronto and co-curates at Concrete Cabaret, an experimental <\/span>performing object collective, and is a community arts manager at MABELLE Arts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Chase<\/b> has performed her dancestory work across Canada and Europe. She <\/span>also toured with both Ben\u00f4it Lachambre\u2019s Dance par B. Lieux, and with German c<\/span>horeographer Raimund Hoghe. Her many works created for Canadian artists <\/span>include Toronto Dance Theatre, Peggy Baker, Andrea Nann, Theatre Replacement, <\/span>AntonijaLivingstone, Montreal Danse, and Marc Boivin. She is the recipient of the <\/span>Jacqueline Lemieux Award for Excellence from the Canada Council for the Arts, and <\/span>received the Prize of the Festival at the Munich Dance Biennale. The solos she <\/span>created for both Peggy Baker, and Andrea Nann won Doras. She is an associate <\/span>dance artist of the Canadian National Arts Centre.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cindy Mochizuki<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>creates multi-media installation, audio fiction, performance, animation, drawings and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited, performed and screened her work in Canada, US, Australia, and Japan. Recent <\/span>exhibitions include the Nanaimo Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, <\/span>Vancouver Art Gallery, Frye Art Museum, and Yonago City Museum. She received the <\/span>Vancouver Mayor\u2019s Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and the Jack and Doris S<\/span>hadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Wen Wen (Cherry) Lu<\/b> is a multimedia artist interested in exploring the hidden, the <\/span>small and the forgotten through installation, illustration and animation. Taking i<\/span>nspiration from family history, she seeks to combine it with the present experiences <\/span>of culture, nature and community to create something that questions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kelsi James<\/b> (she\/they) is a white queer and asexual theatre creator, producer and <\/span>performer, currently working on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish <\/span>and Tsleil-Waututh. Kelsi has a degree in Musical Theatre (Sheridan) and a certificate <\/span>in ASL & Deaf Studies (VCC). Kelsi is honoured to have had their work performed <\/span>nationally and internationally, in over 30 \u2018Canadian\u2019 cities, and most recently in <\/span>Manila, Philippines as part of the Asian Consultation on Gender. Kelsi is passionate <\/span>about new work and its capacity for tender, human-to-human social change.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Accessibility: The gallery is wheelchair and walker accessible. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us at (604) 683-8326 or info@centrea.org.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Centre A is situated on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. We honour, respect, and give thanks to our hosts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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