Miriam Eskildsen & Veronica Chengen Lyu (2023)
Dates of residency: 8/14~9/8 2023
During their stay at the Saikoneon residence, Miriam and Veronica worked on their individual and collective practice, exploring both their own personal movement language and the development of a choreographic project tiny patchwork losses.
Through a series of tasks, improvisations, and conversations, they examined grief and escapism through a magical realist kens. Experimenting with capturing the choreographic material in the surrounding environment, they filmed a series of seedling ideas in the forest bordering the facility, and the Butai stage.
Miriam Eskildsen:
Miriam Eskildsen is an emerging choreographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She graduated from Unitec with a BPSA (contemporary dance) in 2020. Her work has been shown as part of Tempo Festival, NZ Fringe, Pōneke Festival, and the Hamilton Arts Festival.
She is interested in creating character-driven choreography, crafting vivid physical languages that explore the details and nuances of our emotional worlds, and the weight of the imaginary.
Veronica Lyu:
Veronica Chengen Lyu is a contemporary dance artist based in Poneke, Aotearoa. Her homeland is in Yanji, China. After graduating from Unitec with a bachelor of contemporary dance in 2020, she has been working with many artists across Aotearoa and also internationally.
Miriam Eskildsen & Veronica Chengen Lyu (2023)
Dates of residency: 8/14~9/8 2023
During their stay at the Saikoneon residence, Miriam and Veronica worked on their individual and collective practice, exploring both their own personal movement language and the development of a choreographic project tiny patchwork losses.
Through a series of tasks, improvisations, and conversations, they examined grief and escapism through a magical realist kens. Experimenting with capturing the choreographic material in the surrounding environment, they filmed a series of seedling ideas in the forest bordering the facility, and the Butai stage.
Miriam Eskildsen:
Miriam Eskildsen is an emerging choreographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She graduated from Unitec with a BPSA (contemporary dance) in 2020. Her work has been shown as part of Tempo Festival, NZ Fringe, Pōneke Festival, and the Hamilton Arts Festival.
She is interested in creating character-driven choreography, crafting vivid physical languages that explore the details and nuances of our emotional worlds, and the weight of the imaginary.
Veronica Lyu:
Veronica Chengen Lyu is a contemporary dance artist based in Poneke, Aotearoa. Her homeland is in Yanji, China. After graduating from Unitec with a bachelor of contemporary dance in 2020, she has been working with many artists across Aotearoa and also internationally.