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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 pratique le BODY WEATHER LABORATORY depuis 1993, il a été membre résident de l'international performance collective MAIJUKU dirigé par MIN TANAKA, située dans la campagne japonaise. Il a contribué à diffuser le BODY WEATHER LABORATORY aux US et ailleurs. Comme performer il a travaillé avec Anna Halprin, Ko Murobushi, Oguri, inkBoat/Shinichi Iova-Koga, Grisha Coleman/echo::system et Sara Shelton Mann. En 2009, il fonde le projet Headmistress en collaboration avec la chorégraphe/danseuse Amara Tabor-Smith.