Panel: Creating Dance for the Screen

CanAsian Dance presents and cultivates exceptional dance inspired by Asian ideas and expressions. Led by Artistic Director Denise Fujiwara, CanAsian has earned critical acclaim for its world-class programming.http://www.canasiandance.com

CanAsian Dance

FREE! Attend this Panel of creators as they discuss what it means to Create Dance for the Screen.

CanAsian Dance Festival 25!

A virtual multi-week anniversary festival featuring 3 diverse programs!
Presenting world premieres by commissioned choreographers from our New Moves program, & recent digital dance works from our past talented Alumni - artists from our previous 25 years!

<h1>About the Panelists: </h1><h2>William Yong - Zata Omm &amp; W Zento Production</h2>

<p>William Yong is a multi-faceted artist, choreographer, performer, designer and director for theatre and film. He is currently the artistic director of Zata Omm and W Zento Production. William graduated at the London Contemporary Dance School in U.K. His dissertation for his Master's Degree study was in the subject of dance films. He completed his MA with distinction validated by the University of Kent in Canterbury. William's professional career spans over twenty-eight years. He has performed in 75 cities within 15 countries. The award-winning director has created more than one hundred original works worldwide. William and his works received ten-time Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. William was a Dora Mavor Moore Award winner and the winner of “I love dance/J’aime la danse” Award for Innovation. His film works were the winners of 'Best Cinematography' at Venice Shorts Film Awards and winner of 'Award of Excellence' at One-Reeler Short Film Competition. </p>

<h2>Barbara Willis Sweete - Artemis Pictures</h2>

<p>Barbara Willis Sweete is an Oscar-nominated film industry veteran and Founding Partner of Rhombus Media, specialists in Performing Arts Films. Now with Artemis Pictures, Barbara produces and directs films and tv programs in all genres. Her work has been shown at major international film festivals and has received many top awards, including an Oscar nomination, four Emmys, three Grammy nominations and many Geminis, Genies and Canadian Screen Awards.
</p><p>Barbara has directed  several notable dance films and has collaborated with such choreographers as  James Kudelka (Four Seasons, Firebird), Mark Morris (Falling Down Stairs, Dido and Aeneas), Lar Lubovich (Fandango), Doug Varone (The Planets), Mark Godden (The Tale of the Magic Flute), Santee Smith (I Lost My Talk), and David Earle (Romeos and Juliets).
</p><p>Over the last decade, Barbara has directed more than 30 Live in HD Operas that were  transmitted live from New York’s Metropolitan Opera to 2600 cinemas in 72 countries.
</p><p>Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, Barbara has directed more than a dozen live streams of dance productions for such companies as Citadel &amp; Cie, Fall For Dance North and Mark Morris Dance Group. One of these live streams,  “Elemental,” choreographed and performed by Nova Bhattacharya, is being featured at the CanAsian Dance Festival this season.  
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<h2>Sophia Wolfe - Festival of Recorded Movement</h2><p></p>

<p>Sophia Wolfe (she/her) is a dance artist who also works in visual media including photography, film, and video art. She typically is from Vancouver, Canada on unceded Coast Salish territories, of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is currently in London having recently completed her MA in Screendance at the London Contemporary Dance School. Sophia has danced and toured with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Cindy Mochizuki, Kelly McInnes, Antonio Somera, Zahra Shahab, The Only Animal and New World Theatre.</p><p>Sophia is the founder and Artistic Director of F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement), a movement-on-screen festival that supports youth and emerging artists through screening and creation of movement based films. (www.f-o-r-m.ca). She is also on the research team of videocan; an online archive of canadian performance and curated screenings for New Blue Dance Festival (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery, Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver) and Body+Camera (Chicago).</p>

<h2>Moderated by: </h2><h2>Ziyian Kwan - Dumb Instrument Dance</h2>

<p>Ziyian Kwan has worked as a dance artist on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, since1988. As an interprète, she has performed over 100 original creations by an eclectic range of choreographers on international stages. As Artistic Director of Dumb Instrument Dance, Ziyian’s work abstract lived experience to form collages of imagery, movement and language. Throughout her work, Ziyian aspires to artfully challenge the status quo and to conjure reciprocity through creative exchange.  Ziyian’s artistry is inspired by collaboration with luminaries in the fields of dance, music, film, theatre, literature and visual art.</p>

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