Cast: Jade Chong, Juolin Lee, and Amanda Sum

“This song is quite candid and casual with its lyrics about dating, and I thought it paired oddly nicely with an ear that was very strict in its conventions on romance. I also always imagine this song’s video to be a table dance, and wanted to weave some movement in to place us somewhere between 1812 and now” Amanda Sum

Dancers: Maggie McGhee, Erika Mitsuhashi, Juolin Lee, Max Hanic
“I like to treat dance simultaneously as superfluous and meaningless, and as totally sacred and amazing. My goal is to make something I love and that the dancers love, and then share that with the audience. It is kind of scary in a way I like. It's also an ode to my favourite band Beach House.” Francesca Frewer

Closed Eyes is a piece around the melancholy feeling of waiting and longing for the never returns. The piece is an attempt to bring forward the restless, anxious atmosphere during the February 28th incident that lasted for 4 months in Taiwan in 1947. Around one thousand Taiwanese were arrested and executed without charges. Their bodies were never returned home nor the news of their death, leaving their loved ones hoping, waiting, and questioning…

Dancers: Arash Khakpour, Joshee, Juolin Lee, Marisa Gold, Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd, Ysadora Diaz
Musician: Kin Balam, Kin Folk Nation, Hampton, Jarah Femi
A life-giving evening of soulful and inspiring improv music and dance from ten treasured artists in our community. This intimate event is to raise funds for Vines’ artists care – healing and survival fund program.

Performers: Kay Barnes, Juolin Lee, Mermaid Li, Lance Lim and Lynda Sing

Firehorse & Shadow In Community is an embodied film screening event bringing forward the felt and sometimes untold stories, focused on, but not limited to the lived experiences of Chinese Canadian women situated in Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown.

Dancers: Juolin Lee, Alex Tam
A part of Hold On Let Go 2024 (formally known as PushOff)
Five artists climb towards the edge of the universe with radios and headlamps. Hong Kong Exile’s Heaven FM (formally known as Baby universe, RMT) is a multimedia dance-theatre work that conjures spirit and story through light play and radio frequency.

Inspired by the Taiwanese folklore myth of Mong Po Tang (孟婆湯) Juolin explores and inquires the liminal space between remembering and forgetting, the living and deceased.

Community Performance a part of TAIWANfest Vancouver.
Luna is a dance about, for, and with my matcha green Tatung Rice Cooker – a piece of traditional Taiwanese kitchenware. Tatung Rice Cooker sits in every Taiwanese household. It is a very practical and important helper in the kitchen, and a symbol of home, familiarity and comforting warm dishes.

Dancers: Marisa Gold and Juolin Lee. Mezzo-soprano:Cecilia Duarte

A seamless blend of Baroque and contemporary song and dance, this interdisciplinary performance is a powerful reclamation of the story of Dido, The Queen of Carthage, and her legacy as a political leader, an empire builder and a woman of colour.

Performances a part of ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow)
Luna is a dance about, for, and with my matcha green Tatung Rice Cooker.
“Sometimes when life gets intense and overwhelming, I find my mind wandering while I try to accomplish the mundane, everyday tasks…”

Dancers:Juolin Lee, Daria Mikhaylyuk and Hana Rutka

Astrolabe Musik Theatre. Canadian premiere of UK composer George Benjamin’s chamber opera Into the Little Hill, a lyrical tale in two parts. A modern re-telling of the classic Pied Piper tale, Into the Little Hill tells of a mysterious stranger who rids a town of its rats, only to make its children disappear when his promised payment is withheld.

Dancers: Juolin Lee and Alex Tam
A program a part of PushOff 2023 Festival.
A multimedia dance-theatre work currently in research and development phase that conjures spirit and story through light play and radio frequency.
Think lo-fi outer space lecture meets holida in the Holosuites.

Performers:Isabelle Kirouac, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Luciana D’Anunciação, Juolin Lee, Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson

The Dance Centre_Global Dance Connections Series.
You Touch Me weaves an intricate web of duets within an ensemble of people who grew up far from here - and far from each other.
Using dance and text, their encounters investigate notions of 'self' and 'other', cultural identity, race and gender.

Performed and Commissioned by Juolin Lee.
A solo opener for Shion Skye Carter's Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award, presented through The Dance Centre.
Entitled Daydream Shadow, the work is at tone poem that captures Kwan’s vivid imagery in tandem with Lee’s physical prowess.

Dancers: Shion Skye Carter and Juolin Lee
The Guide My Way concert premieres the music from Sedna.
Three singers accompany by two dancers. Directed by Corey Payette.
Produced by Urban Ink.