ACTS OF HOLDING DANCE | Wendy Yu | OPENING EVENT
Event description
Thursday 7 April - Sunday 27 June 2022
This exhibition is part of the OPEN SKY / Kelly’s Garden program
Curated by Ainslie Macaulay
Kelly’s Garden | Salamanca Arts Centre
OPENING EVENT: 7 April 2022 6pm – 8pm
Acts of Holding Dance has its first Tasmanian iteration in Kelly’s Garden, presented by Salamanca Arts Centre. Emerging interdisciplinary artist, Wendy Yu playfully responds to site through her large-scale video work and image stills, cleverly merging dance, computational design and urban media.
Yu talk about her process:
‘When making these projections, I’m “soft” choreographing, where I give scores and choreographic structures to the dancers that encourage them to move within these given boundaries, but in doing so there is also space within these scores that allow for them to impart their own individualistic styles of dancing. In constructing this series of work, I want to be authentically reflecting the individual’s practise of dance, as a dedicated artform, that the dancer has invested in’