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SHERWOOD CHEN has worked with Body Weather Laboratory training since 1993, and was a resident member of Min Tanaka's international performance collective Maijuku in rural Japan. He has facilitated Body Weather Laboratory in Los Angeles with Oguri, Jamie Burris and Roxanne Steinberg, in the Bay Area, and abroad.  Sherwood has worked with artists including dance pioneer Anna Halprin, multimedia artists Grisha Coleman/echo::system and David Szlasa, composer and dancer Do Hee Lee, and choreographers Sara Shelton Mann, Ko Murobushi and Amara Tabor-Smith. In 2009, he formed dance collaborative Headmistress with Tabor-Smith. He is a contributor to Shinichi Iova-Koga's inkBoat. Sherwood is Associate Director of Alliance for California Traditional Arts and serves as board member for Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco) and Khmer Arts Academy (Phnom Penh/Long Beach).