=w= Jiawen Feng(any/all), a Naarm-based emerging dance artist, originally from Shanghai, China.
Graduated from Bachelor of Fine Arts(Dance) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2022, they have in their coursework experience working with acclaimed choreographers and artists including Kialea-Nadine Williams, Kimball Wong, Brianna Kell and Daniel Riley(RISE), Gregory Lorenzutti(Theatrum Botanicum), Carol Brown and Jordine Cornish(Mental Space); Lucy Guerin(Splinter Groups); Ngioka Bunda-Heath(Footprint).
=w=’s movement vocabulary is a conjure of improvisation, release-based contemporary techniques and Chinese Classical Dance.
Their most recent work “Ode to Being” was an immersive autobiographical introspective work premiered in Melbourne Fringe 2023 and have lately developed a strong interest in “immersiveness”, which grew from their passion in multimedia performances and interactive technologies
=w=’s experience of working with technology include: involvement in Swinburne University’s Siggraph Asia Project(Motion Capture) and Volumetric Capturing project(2021-2022) organised by Kim Vincs as dancer capturee; as well as working with Megan Beckwith for “Parallax”(choreographed and artistically directed by Megan), a full-length solo integrating rigorous movement score, animation and 3D illusions, performed at the Castlemaine Fringe Festival.
=w=’s current work in creation is “Odd to be beings”, a duet with their dance teacher, Coco Li, a significant influence on =w=‘s artistry and growth in their formative years as an artist. The work delves into the intricacy of human connection, and unravels threads of randomness that grow and evolve in our life encounters.
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=w= endeavours to further incorporate their cultural identity into their artistic practice and hopes to challenge the way art communicates to an audience.
I acknowledge the traditional cutodians of this land of which I stand and create on today, the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation; I pay my respect to their elders past and present.
Graduated from Bachelor of Fine Arts(Dance) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2022, they have in their coursework experience working with acclaimed choreographers and artists including Kialea-Nadine Williams, Kimball Wong, Brianna Kell and Daniel Riley(RISE), Gregory Lorenzutti(Theatrum Botanicum), Carol Brown and Jordine Cornish(Mental Space); Lucy Guerin(Splinter Groups); Ngioka Bunda-Heath(Footprint).
=w=’s movement vocabulary is a conjure of improvisation, release-based contemporary techniques and Chinese Classical Dance.
Their most recent work “Ode to Being” was an immersive autobiographical introspective work premiered in Melbourne Fringe 2023 and have lately developed a strong interest in “immersiveness”, which grew from their passion in multimedia performances and interactive technologies
=w=’s experience of working with technology include: involvement in Swinburne University’s Siggraph Asia Project(Motion Capture) and Volumetric Capturing project(2021-2022) organised by Kim Vincs as dancer capturee; as well as working with Megan Beckwith for “Parallax”(choreographed and artistically directed by Megan), a full-length solo integrating rigorous movement score, animation and 3D illusions, performed at the Castlemaine Fringe Festival.
=w=’s current work in creation is “Odd to be beings”, a duet with their dance teacher, Coco Li, a significant influence on =w=‘s artistry and growth in their formative years as an artist. The work delves into the intricacy of human connection, and unravels threads of randomness that grow and evolve in our life encounters.
More*
=w= endeavours to further incorporate their cultural identity into their artistic practice and hopes to challenge the way art communicates to an audience.
I acknowledge the traditional cutodians of this land of which I stand and create on today, the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation; I pay my respect to their elders past and present.