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MomMaterial
Sarah Wong in collaboration with Ileanna Cheladyn, Erika Mitsuhashi, and Shana Wolfe
A collaborative creation of a series of pageant sashes that explore craft, fashion, motherhood, rest and survival. Made from vintage fabrics and yarn from my mother’s personal collection.
Gratitude to Justine A. Chambers for her mentorship.
the pattern is so interesting
choreographed and performed by Sarah Wong
with music by turtle dreams
A dance solo about Yuja Wang, perceptions of my racialized/feminized body, and the colour red. A score that moves through, shifts from side to side, puts one foot in front of the other. Something I have not yet made, will never make, and have already made at least 5 times.
Gratitude to Kimberly Ho for outside eye support.
ARCHIVES / PRESS
A Conversation with Sarah Wong: Writing our baggage into dance
Dance Central, Fall 2023
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Dumb Instrument Dance presents a month of Asian artists at Ahhm, May 6 to 29 at Morrow
Stir Vancouver, May 2023
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Access Radio with Amy Amantea
Vancouver Co-Op Radio, March 2023
Dance West Network’s 8th annual DADAO program launches outside this summer
Stir Vancouver, March 2023
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Young creators get help launching their visions at Ignite!
The Vancouver Sun, April 2021
“One of the performers making her official Ignite! debut this year is Sarah Wong. She describes her contribution Family Practice as ‘a screen-recorded film that speaks to the connection between my ancestry, which is Chinese, and my artistic practice. And I do this by unpacking the origins of my name.'”
Read the article here.