ABOUT THE ARTISTS

SHA Creative Outlet was founded in 2021 by Shannon Yu in Brooklyn, New York. Shannon streamlines Hip Hop, Contemporary dance, and Wing Tsun Martial Arts with video projection and sound design, portraying connections between identity and geometry. Sha holds an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University. Shannon is 2023 Asian American Arts Alliance’s Jadin Wong Fellow for Dance.

The multimedia dance company has shown work at Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Art Center, National Sawdust, The Landmark Loew's Theater, and has been awarded residencies with Dance in Bushwick, Chen Dance Center, New Dance Alliance, The Center at West Park. The company’s credits include Performance Mix Festival, the Evolution Festival, YES! Dance Festival, Your Moves Dance Festival, Queer Mvmnt Festival, Inter-Grant Festival and WOW Festival.

@shacreativeoutlet | @hsiangru.yu | https://shannonyu.smugmug.com/Movement-SHAcreativeoutlet

Matt Morris (Lighting Designer )
Matt Morris is a New York City based lighting designer with varied lighting design experience across theater and dance, music, comedy, and other live events. He particularly enjoys working on new work with emerging artists and has an affinity for dance and movement.
Through his work at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn he has collaborated on new pieces with several artists and companies, including the SHA Creative Outlet, 2nd Best Dance Company, and the Jamal Jackson Dance Company. His recent work includes designing for MoveNYC's Sweat Lab ar Chelsea Factory and for shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh.
@matehyo

Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 (Musician)
Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 (they/them) is a Beijing-born, New Jersey-based performer, experimental vocalist, composer, and certified foodie. As an improvising performer, Lu utilizes custom-built feedback-driven electronic instruments, voice, and amplified muscle movements to perform in various settings. Other than performing, Lu also writes for acoustic and electronic improvisers. Through using sound-canceling headphones and in-ear monitors, Lu creates surreal listening environments for improvisers to explore human relationships, audio-visual interactivity, and the phenomenology of sound.
Lu’s works have been performed at Festivals, Conferences, and Venues such as DiMenna Center, IRCAM Forum, SEAMUS conference, HighZero Festival, Jazz Showcase, Elastic Arts, NIME conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Oberlin MMG, Spencer Museum of Art, Rhizome DC, and NowNet Arts conference. Lu currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
https://levilu.com/ | @levi.lu1

Jan Suphitcha (video artist)
Suphitcha Jan Donsrichan is a Bangkok-born artist and multidisciplinary designer with a background in architecture. She is deeply interested in how new media could help us to improve storytelling and the way we communicate with each other.

In 2016, Suphitcha co-founded an artist-run non-profit organization called TANY(Thai Artist in New York) to help and support the Thai artist community in New York. She also writes for Prachatai, Greenery, and other publications in Thailand.
https://jansuphitcha.com/ | @jay_a_n

Maddie Hopfield (Rehearsal assistant)
Maddie Hopfield (b. 1995 Culver City, CA) is a New York City-based dancer, performer, choreographer, writer, and taiko drummer. Her movement practice and history include shotokan karate, postmodern dance, contact improvisation, house, and waacking. She has shown work at Kestrels, LifeWorld, the MAAS building, Urban Movement Arts, The Art Room Studio, Vox Populi, and The Window Room. She has collaborated with Kayla Bobalek and Julia Bryck, and makes work with Marin Day under the name PEPTALK. She has performed in the work of Barnett Cohen, Amelia Heintzelman, Paris Cullen & Sarah Zucchero, Lindsey Jennings, Maya Lee-Parritz, Amalia Colón-Nava, Leah Stein Dance Company, Philly Kerplop (Vince Johnson), Jillian Jeatton, Chelsea Murphy, Amalia Raye Wiatr Lewis, Lily Kind, Lillian Ransijn, and Concept Kinetics ("Cricket" / James Colter). Most recently, she performed alongside Ray Tsou in Barnett Cohen’s work anyyywayyy whatever at the Performissima performance festival in Paris, France and at the Trondheim Kunsthall in Trondheim, Norway. She regularly performs taiko with Casual Fifth (Philadelphia) and Taikoza (NYC), and dances with Christina Reaves’ company, The Creature (NYC). She graduated from Bard College in 2017 with a BA in Dance and Written Arts.
maddiehopfield.com | @wibmd