Master class dance workshop with performer Jen Shyu: https://www.jenshyu.com/

Time and location to be determined.



This "You Are Everything" intermedia improvisation workshop is a special performance/creativity workshop that Jen Shyu has been developing and refining since its inception in 2011 when she was living in Indonesia on her Fulbright scholarship, working with traditional and contemporary Javanese artists. She has customized it for professional artists of all disciplines (music, dance, theater, visual art, etc.) as well as non-artists (and often a mixture of both) around the world in multiple languages.

What you’ll gain from this workshop are some creative tools for building bridges with each other through song exchange and songwriting, interactive poetry, movement, theater, and improvisation games, which will encourage getting over one’s shyness in artistic expression and trying something new, even for those with more artistic experience. This stepping out of one’s comfort zone and claiming oneself as “everything” (meaning as a scholar, singer, dancer, musician, poet, actor, actress, or anything else that you are studying or are interested in!) will help you in whatever field you are in, be it in public speaking or giving a presentation, teaching, or managing a company.  

 

What to bring:

--A pen and small notebook or just some paper for yourself to write on

--Please wear comfortable clothes for easily moving around in; we’ll be able to take off our shoes as the floor is a dance floor.

--If you have instruments or anything else that makes noise, etc. or an instrument you don't even know how to play or are rusty on, you’re welcome to bring them! 




Bio:
Jen Shyu ("Shyu" pronounced "Shoe" in English, Chinese name: ???, Pinyin: Xúqi?yàn) is a groundbreaking, multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, 2016 Doris Duke Artist, and was voted 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Female Vocalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical innovators as Nicole Mitchell, Val Jeanty, Sumi Tonooka, Linda Oh, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ojai Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.