SHA CREATIVE OUTLET
...all knowing 瞭然
RUNTIME: About 60 minutes with no intermission.
Photo by Milana Aernova
...all knowing 瞭然 (reads as “dotted line all knowing) is an solo, multidisciplinary performance exploring the transitional state between past and future, focusing on the present moment where temporalities converge; All Knowing emphasizes the power of change that connects us all. I hold a magnifying glass up to myself, inviting audiences to witness the intricacies of my being — the flaws, the brilliance, the humanity. In turn, I extend this lens outward, reflecting on New York, Taiwan, queerness, displacement, and, ultimately, you.
Collaborating with rehearsal assistant Maddie Hopfield, musician Quijiang Levi Lu, video artist Jan Suphitcha, and lighting designer Matt Morris. I’m drawing movement language from Wing Tsun, Contemporary floorwork, Krump, Waving, Breaking, in conjunction with string installation, projections, live animation, and sound design, this performance is a journey of alchemizing chaotic forces within and finding dynamic equilibrium- present in the power of now.
Photo by Milana Aernova
Choreographed by Shannon Yu 余香儒
Performed by Shannon Yu 余香儒
live sound by Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江
live animation by Jan-Suphitcha Donsrichan
lighting design by Matt Morris
rehearsal assistant Maddie Hopfield
program manager Mattie McGarey
...all knowing 瞭然 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. With process supported by Topaz Arts Inc Artist in residency, New Dance Alliance Satellite program, and LEIMAY subsidized rehearsal space program.
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)
Jan-Suphitcha Donsrichan is a Bangkok-born visual artist, animator, and interdisciplinary designer with an architectural background. She holds an MPS in Interactive Design from the Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP) at the Tisch School of Art, NYU. Suphitcha is currently deeply interested in how new media could help us improve storytelling and how we communicate, analyze, perceive, and record stories.
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
Mattie McGarey (Project Manager)
Mattie McGarey is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and personal trainer. She is curious how movement can connect people to their instinctual body and dissolve the barrier between the natural and the bizarre. Her work often deals with socially imposed discomfort around death, along with the ways that we destroy or dissociate from the natural world. Mattie is passionate about publicly accessible and site specific art, recently premiering durational performances in Prospect Park, Rockaway Beach, and rooftops around New York City. She currently teaches a course in Queer Phenomenology and Club Culture at the School of Radical Attention.
@mattiemcGarey
Anna Wotring (Director of Production)
Anna Wotring is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists, whether they're starting to explore an idea or deep in research. Trisk serves as a home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a wide range of dance artists and organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Annie Heath, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Jennifer Nugent, Lauren Horn, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, slowdanger, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is deeply grateful and honored to be working, imagining, and making magic with the Trisk team and community.
We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.
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