Residency: September 7 – October 18, 2025

Noelle Lee is a local interdisciplinary, process-based artist, working predominantly with dance, performance, and visual arts. Her work is an exploration of improvisation, sound, movement, wearable sculptures, and land-based materials. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lee has a Cantonese-Hong Kongese mother, and a Fujianese father raised between Hong Kong and Makassar, Indonesia.

Lee’s work is influenced and guided by elders and teachers, Haruko Okano, David Zambrano, Horacio Macuacua, Mark Young, Hisao Ichikawa, those at the EDAM Dance Center, Delia and Billy Metcalf, and Indigenous elders Keith and Karen Chiefmoon of the Kainai Nation. In the past few years Lee has worked with Primary Colours/Couleurs Primaire, Full Circle: First Nations Performance, 221A, Arrivals Legacy Project, and Rungh Cultural Society; and has performed and exhibited at What Lab, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Eastvan Vodville Cinema, Lobe Studio, and the Vancouver Mountainview Cemetery. Lee has upcoming collaborations with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and Deer Lake Artist Residency.

Noelle will use her time in residence to further explore solo and group sound and movement improvisation for performance. She will also continue work on a hair felted head piece and a revised design for a set of hand made fish leather wings.

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