花和霧 flowers and fog

San Francisco: May 18-26, 2024.

WORLD PREMIERE — 花和霧 flowers and fog is a new intergenerational performance work between Melissa Lewis Wong and her mother Joy Chenyu Lewis - exploring ancestral healing, language and familial relationship. Performances will invite audiences to a Chinatown picnic and a live 45-min multidisciplinary in-theater experience that culminates in a mahjong game and tea.

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NYC Preview: April 8, 2024.

Joy and Melissa shared a short preview of our project at the historic at Judson Church in NYC - on Monday, April 8 - as part of the Movement Research series.

this project began in 2020 via many hours of conversation towards a film featuring melissa and Joy (pictured above). The experimental, personal film will grow into an expansive public engagement through a process of continued interview conversations, archival family research, and co-discovering embodiment.

The original 2021 film was commissioned and supported by the Merde Project. The project has been supported by: San Francisco Arts Commission, CA$H Grant, Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Movement Research @ Judson Church, FACT/SF’s Production Grant.