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SHERWOOD CHEN has worked as a performer with artists including Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Ko Murobushi, Marina Abramovic, Grisha Coleman/echo::systems, Sara Shelton Mann and Do Hee Lee. In 2009, he formed dance collaborative Headmistress with choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith performing at Movement Research at Judson Church and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has been a contributing performer to Shinichi Iova-Koga's inkBoat since 2005. Sherwood has worked with Body Weather Laboratory training, initiated by Tanaka, since 1993, and was a resident member of Tanaka's international performance collective Mai Juku in rural Japan. He has facilitated Body Weather Laboratory and danced with Oguri and Roxanne Steinberg in Los Angeles, and continues leading Body Weather training in the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad. He has created solo, collaborative and group dances at venues including Theatre de L'Échangeur, PS122, Thread Waxing Space, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Japan America Theatre and San Francisco Art Institute. He has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts with Headmistress, Cap Quinze in Marseille, Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor (CESTA), and forthcoming at Point Éphémère, Sherwood was 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).

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SHERWOOD CHEN (US) a été interprète pour Anna Halprin, Ko Murobushi, Min Tanaka, Grisha Coleman, Marina Abramovic, Oguri, Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat et Sara Shelton Mann. En 2009, il fonde Headmistress en collaboration avec la danseuse/chorégraphe Amara Tabor-Smith, actuellement en residence à ODC Theater 2012 – 2015 à San Francisco. Depuis 1993 il pratique Body Weather (des enquêtes de mouvement initié par Tanaka) comme un membre de Mai Juku au Japon, et avec Oguri à Los Angeles. Depuis 2011 il donne des entraînements au Brésil avec les compagnies dont J.Gar.Cia Dança Contemporanêa, Corpo Sísmico et Ghawazee Coletivo de Ação.