CanAsian Dance
CanAsian Dance centres the Asian Diaspora dance community, which includes artists from across Asia—including South, East, Southeast, West, and Central Asia—as well as the surrounding Pacific Islands.
We are committed to supporting critical artistic conversations and the exploratory stages of new work. By fostering relationships and strengthening solidarity.We aim to create more opportunities for creative exchange, knowledge-sharing, representation, and connection within the Asian Diaspora dance community and the broader dance community.
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ongoing research in performance, investigating the liminal space between creative process and performance event. The embodied and specific understandings that arise from these investigations shape her current questions and engagements both in her own work and with others. She supports the projects she is involved in through her practice of deep listening and feedback through gathering perspectives as a way to facilitate group conversations. She is also an advocate and has been actively engaged in the conversations of inclusivity, diversity and accessibility, as well as participating in, co-leading collective actions and activities. It’s not just what we make as artists but how. She is committed to ongoing learning and practicing consent, respect and accessibility: care in how we are together in all that she is engaged in.
I am an artist in dance. I use “in dance” because I have and do wear many hats.
A practice I carry with me throughout is offering support through listening, observation, conversations, and questions. Reflecting back on what I hear and understand as feedback for deeper understanding, or to see what might be emerging. Unfinished, half thoughts, and ideas, mistakes and idea changes and clarifications are welcome. Discussions around your artistic practice, interests, ethics, questions around how you may be working, the work itself, choreography, thoughts and ideas. I offer my support in figuring it out together.
Angie Cheng
Artistic Lead
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ongoing research in performance, investigating the liminal space between creative process and performance event. The embodied and specific understandings that arise from these investigations shape her current questions and engagements both in her own work and with others. She supports the projects she is involved in through her practice of deep listening and feedback through gathering perspectives as a way to facilitate group conversations. She is also an advocate and has been actively engaged in the conversations of inclusivity, diversity and accessibility, as well as participating in, co-leading collective actions and activities. It’s not just what we make as artists but how. She is committed to ongoing learning and practicing consent, respect and accessibility: care in how we are together in all that she is engaged in.
I am an artist in dance. I use “in dance” because I have and do wear many hats.
A practice I carry with me throughout is offering support through listening, observation, conversations, and questions. Reflecting back on what I hear and understand as feedback for deeper understanding, or to see what might be emerging. Unfinished, half thoughts, and ideas, mistakes and idea changes and clarifications are welcome. Discussions around your artistic practice, interests, ethics, questions around how you may be working, the work itself, choreography, thoughts and ideas. I offer my support in figuring it out together.