Workshop: Folding/Unfolding | Peek Fest 2026

A workshop looking at choreographic practice through embodying calligraphy, handmade paper, and memory in our bodies.

Folding/Unfolding

with Shion Skye Carter

Tuesday, November 17, 6:00pm-8:00pm

SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton St)

$20

About the workshop:

Folding/Unfolding, a workshop by Shion Skye Carter, is an expansion of their choreographic practice embodying calligraphy, handmade paper, and the sediments of memory that reside within our bodies. A collective study on the idiosyncrasies of calligraphy including ink, rice paper, and brushstrokes will be followed by improvised explorations and movement sequences embodying these materials and forms, oscillating between tension and release, fluidity and rupture; allowing the stories, identities, and dances that we carry with us to spill and unfurl.

About the facilitator:

Shion Skye Carter is a contemporary dance artist from Gifu, Japan, based in Vancouver, BC. Through a choreographic language of sensitive intensity and a practice of embodied calligraphy, Shion's work invokes memory as heirloom, dance as respite, and performance as imperfect artifact. They’ve facilitated workshops for youth and adults across Canada, guiding folks through interdisciplinary play, curiosity in movement, and unhurried ways to connect the mind, breath, and body.