Performances
Live performances and dance films
Soup of Forgetfulness
Boombox_Dance In Vancouver Festival
15min Excerpt, mixed bill
Solo, choreographed by Juolin Lee
Performance: Nov 19th 7:30pm, Nov 20th 10pm, Nov 22nd 10:30pm
Location: Boombox (44 West 4th Ave, Vancouver)
Soup of Forgetfulness is a solo inspired by the Taiwanese Folklore myth, Mong-Po-Tang, about the afterlife and the process of reincarnation. The work harnesses Juolin’s curiosity about the space between the living and the deceased and the grey zone between remembering and forgetting.
Email: vancouverboombox@gmail.com for tickets
Soup of Forgetfulness
Residency Studio Showing
Generously supported by Dance West Network and Antler Ridge Dance
Solo, choreographed by Juolin Lee
Performance: Oct 18th 2024, 4pm
Location: Antler Ridge Dance Studio, Salt Spring Island
Soup of Forgetfulness is a solo inspired by the Taiwanese Folklore myth, Mong-Po-Tang, about the afterlife and the process of reincarnation. The work harnesses Juolin’s curiosity about the space between the living and the deceased and the grey zone between remembering and forgetting.
Email: antlerridgedance@gmail.com for registration
EMPTY-HANDED
Presented by Firehall Arts Centre. Co-produced by The Biting School and battery opera
Empty-Handed is a contemporary dance piece that explores the journeys of five cosmic characters through themes of darkness, deception, and greed
Performance: October 2nd-5th 2024 7:30pm
Location: Firehall Arts Centre
Performers: Juolin Lee, Marisa Gold, Hayley Gawthrop, Antonio Somera Jr. and Arash Khakpour
“You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
What On EARTH
Co.Erasga present in partner with the Roundhouse
Three new dance creation by Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Naishi Wang and Alvin Collantes
Performance: Sep 18th to 20th 2024 8pm
Location: Roundhouse Theatre
Performers: Yuha Tomita, Ysadora Dias, Samantha Krystal, Juolin Lee, danielle Mackenzie Long, Juan Villegas
“What on Earth will continue to examine the critical creative relations to the environment and the dire times we face with global warming. Can we raise and push creative investments , practices and concerns to attune our creativity to an alarming and devastating fragile ecologies? “ -Co. Erasga
first date face/sex with an ex
Short music video by Amanda Sum
Release date: May 22nd 10am 2024
From Sum's upcoming EP/suite of short songs
Cast: Jade Chong, Juolin Lee, and Amanda Sum
“This song is quite candid and casual with its lyrics about dating, and I thought it paired oddly nicely with an ear that was very strict in its conventions on romance. I also always imagine this song’s video to be a table dance, and wanted to weave some movement in to place us somewhere between 1812 and now” Amanda Sum
Boombox_May Triple Bill
Quartet, choreographed by Francesca Frewer
Performance: May 16th,17th 2024 6:30pm, May 18th 4:30pm
Location: Boombox (44 W 4th Ave, Vancouver)
Performers: Maggie McGhee, Erika Mitsuhashi, Juolin Lee, Max Hanic
“I like to treat dance simultaneously as superfluous and meaningless, and as totally sacred and amazing. My goal is to make something I love and that the dancers love, and then share that with the audience. It’s kind of scary in a way that I like. It’s also an ode to my favourite band Beach House” Francesca Frewer
Closed Eyes
Closed Eyes_ Co.Erasga Studio Salon Series Spring 2024
Solo, Choreographed by Juolin Lee
Performance: April 28th, 2024 5pm
Location: What Lab
Closed Eyes is a piece around the melancholy feeling of waiting and longing for the never returns. The piece is an attempt to bring forward the restless, anxious atmosphere during the February 28th incident that lasted for 4 months in Taiwan in 1947. Around one thousand Taiwanese were arrested and executed without charges. Their bodies were never returned home nor the news of their death, leaving their loved ones hoping, waiting, and questioning…
Birth of Jazz
Birth of Jazz_Vines Dance and Music Improv Show
Ensemble improvisation. An evening curated by Vines Arts Society
Performance: Feb 29th, 2024 7:30pm
Location: VIVO Media Arts Centre
Dancers: Arash Khakpour, Josh Ongcol , Juolin Lee, Marisa Gold, Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd, Ysadora Diaz
Musicians: Kin Balam, Kin Folk Nation, Hampton, Jarah Femi
A life-giving evening of soulful and inspiring improv music and dance from ten treasured artists in our community. This intimate event is to raise funds for Vines’ artists care – healing and survival fund program.
Firehorse & Shadow in community
Ensemble work. An evening created and curated by Dreamwalker Dance/Andrea Nann
Performance: Feb 17th, 2024 7pm
Location: Left of Main, Chinatown Vancouver
Performers: Kay Huang Barnes, Juolin Lee, Mermaid Li, Lance Lim, Lynda Sing
Firehorse & Shadow In Community is an embodied film screening event bringing forward the felt and sometimes untold stories, focused on, but not limited to the lived experiences of Chinese Canadian women situated in Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown.
Heaven FM
By Hong Kong Exile, Choreographed by Natalie TY Gan and collaborators
Primer: Jan 23rd 7pm, Jan 25th 8pm, Jan 26th 4:15pm
Location: Russian Hall
Performers: Elysse Cheadle, Natalie TY Gan, Juolin Lee, Alex Mah, Alex Tam
A part of Hold On Let Go 2024 (formally known as PushOff)
Five artists climb towards the edge of the universe with radios and headlamps. Hong Kong Exile’s Heaven FM (formally known as Baby universe, RMT) is a multimedia dance-theatre work that conjures spirit and story through light play and radio frequency.
Soup of Forgetfulness
Residency Studio Showing
Generously supported by Foray Residency by Morrow, Odd Meridian Arts Society
Solo, choreographed by Juolin Lee
Performance: Jan 5th 2024, 6pm
Location: Morrow at Odd Meridian Arts
Soup of Forgetfulness (working title) is a solo work in progress inspired by the Taiwanese Folklore myth, Mong Po Tang (孟婆湯) about the afterlife and the process of reincarnation.
Collaborator/Outside Eye: Shion Skye Carter Mentor: Natalie TY Gan
Email: juolinlee@gmail.com for registration
Luna_ TAIWANfest
Community Performance a part of TAIWANfest Vancouver
Solo, Choreographed by Juolin Lee
Performance: Sep 3rd, 2023 12:30pm
Location: North of Vancouver Art Gallery
Luna is a dance about, for, and with my matcha green Tatung Rice Cooker – a piece of traditional Taiwanese kitchenware. Tatung Rice Cooker sits in every Taiwanese household. It is a very practical and important helper in the kitchen, and a symbol of home, familiarity and comforting warm dishes.
Queen of Carthage
Opera production co-produced by: Early Music Vancouver and re:Naissance
Opera with SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs
Premier: July 27th 2023, 8pm
Location: Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Goldcorp Centre
Dancers: Marisa Gold and Juolin Lee. Mezzo-soprano:Cecilia Duarte
A seamless blend of Baroque and contemporary song and dance, this interdisciplinary performance is a powerful reclamation of the story of Dido, The Queen of Carthage, and her legacy as a political leader, an empire builder and a woman of colour.
Luna_ Bowl of Jasmine
Performances a part of ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow)
Solo, Choreographed by Juolin Lee
Performance: May 26th, 27th, 28th 2023, 7pm
Location: Morrow by Odd Meridian, 910 Richards Suite 204, Vancouver
Solo work choreographed and performed by Juolin Lee. Luna is a dance about, for, and with my matcha green Tatung Rice Cooker.
“Sometimes when life gets intense and overwhelming, I find my mind wandering while I try to accomplish the mundane, everyday tasks…”
Into the Little Hill
Opera production by Astrolabe Musik Theatre
Opera duet with dance trio choreographed by Idan Cohen.
Premier: May 19th, 20th 2023, 7:30pm
Location: Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Goldcorp Centre
Dancers: Juolin Lee, Daria Mikhaylyuk, Hana Rutka
Opera Singers: Emma Parkinson, Heather Pawsey
Astrolabe Musik Theatre. Canadian premiere of UK composer George Benjamin’s chamber opera Into the Little Hill, a lyrical tale in two parts. A modern re-telling of the classic Pied Piper tale, Into the Little Hill tells of a mysterious stranger who rids a town of its rats, only to make its children disappear when his promised payment is withheld.
Baby Universe, RMT
Work in progress by Hong Kong Exile
Interdisciplinary dance duet, choreographed by Natalie TY Gan
Performance：Feb 4th 2023, 2pm & 9pm
Location：Russian Hall
Dancers: Juolin Lee and Alex Tam
A program a part of PushOff 2023 Festival.
A multimedia dance-theatre work currently in research and development phase that conjures spirit and story through light play and radio frequency.
Think lo-fi outer space lecture meets holida in the Holosuites.
You Touch Me
Ensemble work by Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson
Premier：Dec 8th-10th 2022, 8pm & 9pm
Location：The Dance Centre
Performers: Isabelle Kirouac, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Luciana D’Anunciação, Juolin Lee, Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson
The Dance Centre_Global Dance Connections Series.
You Touch Me weaves an intricate web of duets within an ensemble of people who grew up far from here - and far from each other.
Using dance and text, their encounters investigate notions of 'self' and 'other', cultural identity, race and gender.
Daydream Shadow
Solo, choreographed by Ziyian Kwan, performed by Juolin Lee
Performance：Nov 4th, 5th 2022, 7pm
Location： The Dance Centre
Performed and Commissioned by Juolin Lee.
A solo opener for Shion Skye Carter's Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award, presented through The Dance Centre.
Entitled Daydream Shadow, the work is at tone poem that captures Kwan’s vivid imagery in tandem with Lee’s physical prowess.
Guide My Way
Duet, chreography by Shion Skye Carter
A music concert celebrating original music from Sedna
Performance：Aug 12th 2022, 8pm
Location：York Theatre
Dancers: Shion Skye Carter and Juolin Lee
The Guide My Way concert premieres the music from Sedna.
Three singers accompany by two dancers. Directed by Corey Payette.
Produced by Urban Ink.
Funky Fungi
Duet, choreographed by Katie Cassady
Performance & Location：
SKAMPede｜July 8th-10th 2022 at Millenium Square Park, Victoria
New Works｜July 17th 2022, 3pm at Granville Island, Vancouver
Dancers: Katie Cassady and Juolin Lee
Outdoor performance. funky fungi is a contemporary dance duet focussed on interpreting and expressing the existence of fungi, focussing on mycelia networks and mushrooms.