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ARETHA AOKI
Aretha Aoki is a dancer and a maker from Vancouver, BC. Her choreography has been performed at Brooklyn Studios for Dance, A.P.E Gallery Ltd., Danspace Project, the Academy of Music, Movement Research Festival, Center for Performance Research, Catch, Exit Art Gallery (Culturebot’s “Ephemeral Evidence”), New York Live Arts (2011/12 Fresh Tracks artist), the Kitchen (Emily Roysdon’s A Gay Bar Called Everywhere), the Chen Dance Center (2010 Newsteps artist-in-residence), the Firehall Arts Centre, AUNTS, the 92nd St. Y, and Studio 303 (2007 Vernissage-danse artist in residence). She is an artist with the inaugural Seed Program, a residency exchange with Vermont Performance Lab and Studio 303. Aretha is a collaborating performer in new works by Emily Johnson/Catalyst Dance and robbinschilds. As dancer, she has worked with Rebecca Serrell Cyr, devynn emory, robbinschilds, Vanessa Anspaugh, Heather Kravas, Juliette Mapp, Daria Fain, Maura Donohue, Elizabeth Ward, Martin Lanz, Faye Driscoll, Lisa D’Amour & Katie Pearl, and others. Since 2014 she has been leading the workshop, The Dancer is a Haunted House—based on her choreographic and performance research—at various locations in NYC, San Francisco, and Northampton. Aretha is Associate Editor at Contact Quarterly (CQ), and co-curator of the 2016 Movement Research Spring Festival in NYC. Her lyric essay, "The Practice of Form: A Class by Ralph Lemon" was published in CQ W/S 2016, and she is co-curator of CQ S/F 2016 folio on the practices and thinking generated by the 2015 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI). Aretha holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University and a MFA from Smith College. arethaaoki.wordpress.com |
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