About this Event
N/YANG is a meditative duet that explores balance through the Chinese concept of Yin-Yang and the Japanese concept of In-Yo. Awarded the Chrystal Dance Prize, Vancouver-based dance artist Eric Cheung collaborated with Japanese artist Kinui Oiwa to explore duality, interdependence, and dynamic balance through two contrasting movement practices. Drawing on the Five Elements—Metal, Wood, Earth, Fire, and Water—as a structure for the piece, the work unfolds within a circular light installation, considering balance not as something fixed, but as something continuously negotiated between bodies, space, and opposing forces.
About Eric Cheung
Eric Cheung is a contemporary/street dance choreographer and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations.
Working across film, theatre, new media, and interactive installation, Cheung’s projects include the films E_GO (2018), I(n)finite (2023), and Null (2025); stage works iye (2018), Re:1974 (2021), Flux (2024), Contra (2025), VANDALZ (2026) and IN/YANG (2026); and installation and new media works such as iyeism (2022), Diverge (2023), Liminal (2024), Everlasting (2024), Array (2025), and All Seeing.
His work has been exhibited at Place des Arts, PACT Zollverein, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and Tangible Studios, with international screenings and features at Aesthetica Festival, Prague Dance Festival, SDFF, CIFT, Telus Optik TV, FORM, and platforms such as Vimeo Staff Pick, NOWNESS, and Booooooom. Stage presentations include the PHI Centre, Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Simon Fraser University. Eric has received the Artist Studio Award (2022), the Chrystal Prize Award - Dance Victoria (2025), and the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award - Dance Centre (2025). Commercially, he has collaborated and worked with Anyma, Coachella, Lululemon, Acronym, Asus ROG, Veygn, CBC Arts, Montecristo Magazine and more.
About Kinui Oiwa
Kinui Oiwa is a Japanese contemporary dance artist. She began ballet at 11 in Japan, continuing her training at PNSD Rosella Hightower in France and earning a dance diploma with the Cannes Junior Ballet Company. In 2018, Kinui joined Balletto di Roma, touring Europe and performing works by Davide Bombana, Itamar Serussi, Fabrizio Monteverde, and Andrea Costanzo Martini. In 2022, Kinui joined OURO Collective, performing 7y98d by RubberLegz and Ouroboros for OUROFEST 2024. Beyond OURO, Kinui has worked on motion capture, commercials, and music videos, and has collaborated with OCIN, Lululemon, Vancouver Opera, and Canon Japan. In 2024/25, Kinui, along with collaborator Eric Cheung, won the 2024/25 Chrystal Dance Prize.
Dance Victoria's Artist Residency program and related Rough Cut presentations are made possible with funding from the Victoria Foundation’s Community Grants, Canada Council for the Arts and BC Gaming, with additional support from Dance Creation Sponsor Langford Physiotherapy & Acupuncture and individual underwriters: Trudy David and three anonymous donors.
Event venue & nearby stays
Dance Victoria Studios, 2750 Quadra Street, Victoria, Canada
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