Summer Workshop 2022
Join internationally-celebrated artists Jermaine Spivey, Yi-Chun Liu, Yin Yue and Lea Ved.
Week 1: Jul 25-29, 2022, 9:00-3:15, with a 30 minute lunch break | Q7 Studios, 77 East 7th Ave, Vancouver BC
Week 2: Aug 1-5, 2022, 9:00-3:15, with a 30 minute lunch break | Q7 Studios, 77 East 7th Ave, Vancouver BC
Week 1 will be taught up Jermaine Spivey, Yi-Chun Liu.
Week 2 will be taught by Yin Yue and Lea Ved.
About Jermaine Maurice Spivey:
JERMAINE MAURICE SPIVEY was born in Baltimore, Maryland USA and is a graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and The Juilliard School. From 2002-2017, Jermaine lived and worked predominately throughout Europe. He has been a company member of Ballet Gulbenkian and Cullberg Ballet, worked as a freelance/guest artist for Hofesh Shechter Company, Robyn Live 2016, The LID, Arias Company and The Forsythe Company from 2013-2015 as well as a cast member of American Repertory Theater's original production The Shape She Makes conceived by Susan Misner and Jonathan Bernstein. Since 2008, Jermaine has been a member of Crystal Pite's project based company Kidd Pivot. He has rehearsal assisted and/or staged Crystal Pite's work for companies such as Cedar Lake Ballet, Carte Blanche, Hessisches StaatsBallett Wiesbaden, Netherlands Dance Theater and Paris Opera Ballet. Jermaine has instructed dance all across North America and Europe for professional companies, universities, studios and training programs including USC Kaufman School of Dance, Cal Arts, The Juilliard School, UCLA, NYU Tisch, Baltimore School for the Arts, The Performing Arts Project, MOVE NYC, No)one. Art House, Nuova Officina Della Danza and GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. He is a 2001 Princess Grace Awardee and a 1998 National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts 1st Level Awardee.
As a choreographer, Jermaine has been commissioned by Salt Contemporary Dance, Rambert 2, LA Dance Project, The Broad Museum, Christina Aguilera Live at The Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, and most recently Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Jermaine has also created and performed two full evening works with partner and collaborator Spenser Theberge titled Rather This Then and Position 3.
About Yi-Chun Liu:
YI-CHUN (°1985, Taichung, TW) joined Peeping Tom in 2013 for Vader. She continued to work on the family trilogy with Moeder (2016) and also performs in Kind (2019). At the age of 5, she began with Kung-fu and basic Chinese opera training, and went on to study ballet, contemporary dance, improvisation, Martial Arts and Tai-Chi-Dao-In. In 2007, she graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts. Apart from Peeping Tom, she has worked or is currently working with Anouk van Dijk (NL), Shang-chi Sun (DE/TW), Ann Van den Broek (BE), Scapino Ballet Rotterdam (NL), Paul Selwyn Norton (NL/AU), Balletto Teatro di Torino (IT) and Cloud Gate Dance Theater 1 (TW). She worked as artistic assistant with Franck Chartier on the award-winning Peeping Tom co-production The lost room (2015) and later on The hidden floor (2017). Her solo piece O premiered in Rotterdam in 2012 and has since evolved into a duet, performing in Amsterdam and The Hague. She is working on her alphabetical series in discussion to the concept “Act of Performance”. Yi-chun is also a certified Countertechnique teacher since 2012, which helped her to develop a versatile career as a performer and researcher. She offers laboratorial workshops alongside Peeping Tom tours.
About Yin Yue:
YIN YUE is an internationally recognized performer, choreographer and the founder and artistic director of YY Dance Company (YYDC), a New York City based non-profit contemporary dance company dedicated to the teaching, production and performance of original choreographic works by Yin. Yin Yue was born in Shanghai, China and studied at the prestigious Shanghai Dance Academy and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her MFA in 2008. Yin’s signature FoCo TechniqueTM represents a dynamic fusion of folk, ballet and contemporary dance. Yin Yue was the recipient of the 2021 Harkness Promise Award. This prestigious award recognizes her innovation in choreography and education. She was the winner of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2015 International Commissioning Project, winner of the 2015 BalletX Choreographic Fellowship, and winner of Northwest Dance Project’s 5th Annual Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition in 2013. Through these high-profile successes, Yin has received commissions from all three widely-recognized companies as well as other companies and organizations namely Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Philadelphia Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Limon Dance Company, Alberta Ballet, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Gibney Dance Company, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Whim W’him, Bruce Wood Dance, Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, Boston Dance Theater, 10 Hairy Legs, New Dialect, Backhausdance, Tisch School of The Arts, George Mason University, Rutgers University, Point Park University, West Michigan University and Juilliard School for Dance.
Under Yin’s direction, YYDC has presented its work to live audiences on U.S. and international stages. The company boasts international touring credits, including Schrit_tmacher Festival (Germany), SummerStage in New York City, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, The Open Door Dance Festival in Iowa City, Iowa, DancenowNYC at Joe’s pub and many more. In addition, YYDC has performed at venues such as International Choreographic Competition Hanover, BAM Fisher, Joyce SoHo Theater, Peridance Center, Lincoln Center Rose Hall, New York Live Arts and many others. In addition to performance, the company also re-staged repertories at universities, companies and dance studios around the world.
About Lea Ved:
LEA VED is a Filipina/Indian dancer, choreographer, and collaborator, originally from the USA, currently with Nederlands Dans Theatre. Her years as a professional dancer have ranged from practice in roots of breakdance and hip-hop with Victor Quijada/Rubberbandance group in Montreal, Canada, to performing Mats Ek's role of Julia in Julia & Romeo with the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm. Since graduating from the Juilliard School in 2013, she has worked both as a freelance artist and repertoire company dancer — creating new work with Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, Sharon Eyal, Marina Mascarell, Yoann Bourgeois, most influentially among others — and meanwhile sharing workshops, pursuing creative exchange, and developing as a maker and creator. Her hybrid background in different circles of dance culture, particularly the Rubberbandance cyphers, has lent itself to an evolving process of physical research and creation, pronounced in individual expression and collaboration. Her more notable works have been made on the Small Stage with Göteborgsoperans Danskompani, NDT's Switch program, and Korzo Theater.