Bio

Giselle Liu merges her embodied practices as a choreographer with her visual expressions to capture poetic movements of nature and humanity. After working 11 years abroad she’s returned to Canada to pursue an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Simon Fraser University. She strives to transform the powerful energy of human stories within a creative process into a visually embodied poetic experience to its viewers. Her research asks how movement uncovers our embodied interconnectedness with matter and energy. 

She acknowledges that she is residing and working on the unceded traditional territories of the Ts’msyen Nation.

Works

SMGAN

  • 2020
  • Giselle Liu

SMGAN (cedar), embarks on a rare opportunity to trace the steps of Indigenous artist Tina Robinson. A journey that began from a dream to preserve the art of chilkat weaving and her traditional Sm’algyax language. This short experimental documentary captures the first step of the traditional Indigenous art form of chilkat weaving, the harvest.

SMGAN, Giselle Liu, 2020, Cineworks