Jodie Judy Lu YingChu’s participation in ADF’s International Choreographers Residency Program is supported by the Taiwan Academy of TECRO/Ministry of Culture in Taiwan.
ADF ICR
The American Dance Festival’s (ADF) International Choreographers Residency (ICR) program, since founded in 1984, has brought together over 500 choreographers from 93 countries on 6 continents. One of the most invaluable opportunities for the choreographers is to develop life-long relationships with colleagues in the program and individuals in the larger ADF’s 300+ community.
Each June and July, approximately ten to fifteen emerging to mid-career choreographers from around the world come to ADF, located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for a five-week residency designed to nourish, deepen, and expand their creative practices beyond the rehearsal studio. The ICR program provides a generous space for choreographers to take a break from their normal routines and explore creative practices in an environment where different perspectives are shared and valued.
June 5th - July 10th, 2023.
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Co-Directors: Gerri Houlihan, Momar Nidaye
ICR Project Specialist: Kelsey Riner
ICR Project Specialist Intern: Vivian Shock
International Choreographers Residency 2023:
Won Kim, Kristina Paunovski, Jodie Judy Lu YingChu, ShiYu Liu, Jack Bannerman, Elena Puchol Sola, Dan Datcu, Wu Yu-Shien, Katya
During ICR at ADF,
Jodie collaborated with two professional dance artists and one music artist
to choreograph ∞ infinity in 30 hours of rehearsals within 19 days
to get this piece created, collaborated and presented
by American Dance Festival in the ICR showcase (informal showing).
∞ infinity
∞ infinity is a research about the concept of one soul in two bodies.
It could be the other half of the soul, or two souls intertwine together in all dimensions.
They meet, interact, exchange, and transform to the authentic self (ves).
They transcend the energy of yin and yang, masculine and feminine.
Becoming the origin, the source, the infinity.
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Choreography Jodie Judy Lu YingChu, in collaboration with dancers
Performance Blake Bellanger, Nicole Connaughton
Understudy Erin Morrisey, Mandi Weitz
Music Joyce Lindsey
Presented by American Dance Festival and Int'l Choreographers Residency
(informal showing)
Premiere: July 3rd 2023, Carolina Friend School, Durham, North Carolina, US
ICR Masterclass: Soul FLOWing Dance
During ICR at ADF,
Jodie facilitated an ICR masterclass which is one of her own dance practices
Soul FLOWing Dance, presented by American Dance Festival.
Allow your sensation to move you.
Allow your intuition to guide you.
Allow your creative imagination to lead you.
Allow your essence life-force energy to dance you.
Fly and float freely with the feather wings of imagination and sensation,
and navigate the adventurous journey with flow.
The flow is in the process, not in the outcome.
The flow exists only at each present moment.
The flow state of being happens when being present.
Soul FLOWing Dance
The Ark, July 5th 19:30-22:00
Facilitating Dance Artist: Jodie Judy Lu YingChu
Facilitating Music Artist: Brittany Padilla
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Jodie Judy Lu YingChu
Facilitating Dance Artist & Founder of Soul FLOWing Dance
Jodie/YingChu is an independent interdisciplinary dance artist from Taiwan having been based in London and Berlin working nomadically as a creator, dancer, maker/choreographer, performer, collaborator, facilitator/teacher, researcher, and healer (Reiki Master Teacher). Creating is the core spirit of her practice, with the emphasis of kinaesthetic experiences along the process of encountering, connecting, and crafting. With her clairvoyant and sensitivity in senses, very naturally she delves into sensations and perceptions in the field of phenomenology and the body-mind relationship by weaving the thinking-body through dancing, moving, and embodying.She has created Soul FLOWing Dance with her achievement of MA Creative Practice (Dance Professional Practice) awarding by Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Dance, and Trinity Laban in London in the UK. Her own solo choreography ϕ (phi) has been invited to perform and tour at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, 4bid gallery at OT301 in Amsterdam, Kunst Dialogue in Amsterdam, and Online Performing Arts Festival.
Being part of artistic community and family, by contributing and dedicating, by giving and receiving, she very much enjoys the warm support and inspiration by collaborating with other artists in each other’s projects. This is what she values the most along her dance art career and also the insights from her interdisciplinary art residency experiences.
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Brittany Padilla
Facilitating Music Artist
Brittany Padilla is a music performer, composer, producer, and educator residing in Denton, TX. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a minor in Spanish from the University of North Texas and a Masters of Education in Instructional Design and Technology from West Texas A&M University. She is currently a full-time dance accompanist and music educator at Texas Woman’s University. She performs and composes in collaboration with local dance companies and individual artists around the United States for various workshops and festivals (ACDA, TDIF, MALCS etc.) as well as other colleges and universities in DFW (UTA, TCU, etc.) As a multi-instrumentalist, she plays and records an array of acoustic and digital instruments with emphasis on percussion and voice. Brittany works with Ableton Live, a software for producing music and is a certified Ableton Specialist through Berklee College of Music.