Name: Studio Salon Series: Fall 2024
Start: 2024-11-23T17:00:00-08:00
Location: What Lab

Studio Salon Series: Fall 2024
November 23, 5:00PM
What Lab
1814 Pandora St
Vancouver BC, V5L 1M5

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.
The Fall salon series is presented in association with the 2024 Dance in Vancouver by The Dance Centre.

LIMITED CAPACITY!
TICKETS FREE AND BY DONATION - ALL PROCEED TO THE ARTISTS.

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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

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

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

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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.