Lee Su-Feh Bio

Su-Feh was born and raised in Malaysia and began performing while at the National Children's Theatre. Her training includes traditional Malay, Javanese and Balinese dance as well as contemporary dance and ballet. She also has extensive training in Chinese martial arts. Before coming to Vancouver in 1988, she lived in Paris, London, Indonesia and Malaysia. Her work reflects her constant questioning and search for a point of balance between the many cultures that influence her. In 1998, she won the Prix de Jeune Auteur of the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-St.Denis for her work Gecko Eats Fly. In theatre, Su-Feh has worked as a choreographer with directors such as Marc Diamond, Donna Spencer and most recently DD Kugler. In 1995, she co-founded Battery Opera with David McIntosh, an award-winning company whose work offers a view of the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced cultures, histories and practices.. In addition to performing and choreographing, Su-Feh studies and teaches Chinese martial arts as well as movement for dancers and actors. She is also a certified journeyman pastry chef. For more info visit: www.batteryopera.com

Class Description

Approaching dance through martial arts. Vigorous, demanding, fun, this is a class that uses martial arts as a starting point to explore ideas about movement, space, mind-body connection and partnering/ensemble skills. The class pulls exercises from Qigong, Yoga, and Wushu. Using principles from internal martial arts - spiralling  and circular energies, clarity of intention, softness of body - this class gets you to move with speed, focus and clarity within a released body. Sometimes the class takes on a very somatic approach and is very free-form, at other times the class will follow the basic drill structure of martial arts and technique class.

 

October 22nd - November 16th

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10am - 11:30am

Birmingham Studio @ the Scotiabank Dance Centre

Pre-Registration: full session $120, by class $10

Drop-in $12/class

To Pre-Register or for more information contact CADA/BC604-606-6414