Sherwood Chen

Sherwood Chen has worked as a performer with artists including Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, l’agence touriste, inkBoat, Ko Murobushi, Liz Santoro, Grisha Coleman, Arcane Collective and Sara Shelton Mann. In 2009, he formed dance collaborative Headmistress with choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith, and together they are artists in residence at ODC in San Francisco (2012-2015). 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, Roxanne Steinberg, and Melinga Ring in Los Angeles. He continues to develop Simultaneous Translations, movement training and research he has offered in spaces including Independent Dance-Siobahn Davies Studios, K3 Tanzplan, Chez Bushwick, Kunst-Stoff, Pole Nord Estaque, EDEN Berlin, UC Berkeley, and Point Ephemere in Paris. He has created solo, collaborative and group dances at venues including Theatre de L’Echangeur, ODC, PSI 22, Thread Waxing Space, CounterPULSE, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Sala Crisantempo and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts with Headmistress, Fazenda SaoJoao, CapQuinze in Marseille, Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor (CESTA), and Point Ephemere.