Emily

Thank you so much for your support👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 We've reached 1/6th of our fundraising goal in just one week!!!! And just $40 to get to $1000 by Sunday⚡️🌟 Any amount truly means a lot to us. Please consider supporting our site-specific iteration of Nothing to Watch 2026 at Gotham Park. Crowdfunding link in bio👆👆👆 Performance Detail: [Nothing to Watch - Gotham Park] Date: June 6, 2026 (times tbd, but probably at 12pm and 4pm) Site: Gotham Park (1 Rose St, New York, NY 10038) Performers: Carolyn Hall @gatablanco , Annie MingHao Wang @snapshotturtle , Emily Young @_emyoung , Liam McLaughlin @liam.m4a , Leah Fournier @iampiegirl , Producer: Shana Crowford @sortofhere Choreographer: Maho Ogawa Sound: Sugar Vendil @sugarvendil

Thank you so much for witnessing the performance ritual, "Nothing to Watch" at the @movementresearch @judsonchurchnyc . - dance is to me a ritual to be felt, to be included, to be found, to be understood, and to be witnessed by the audience and by the performers in that moment of right now. I'd like to extend a deep appreciation to the dancers @the_real_bgoosman @gatablanco @snapshotturtle @_emyoung for the long and sometimes challenging process of sharing each other's vulnerability and trusting my vision. Thank you so much to the MR Residency Program for the opportunity to focus on in-depth research of meditation and choreography as a collective meditation practice. The next iteration is 9/6 at @butsubutsu . See you there! --------- "Nothing to Watch" Performed at the Movement Research at the Judson Church on 6/9/2025 Created by Maho Ogawa Performed by Benjamin Goodsman, Carolyn Hall, Annie MingHao Wang, Emily Young, Maho Ogawa Videography by Makenna Finch @5_nothing_ "Nothing to Watch" was made possible through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation.

moments in score from open performance @movementresearch last week ✨

lil moment from the rehearsal archives 👯‍♀️

Upcoming show 💫💫💫💫 I'm excited to share my current exploration about meditation and dance in December at @cprnyc It's one and only, special personal - @mayfieldbrookz 's curation💕💕 Please come🥰😀 💫💫💫💫 Open Studios at CPR 12/9/2025 Tuesday at 7:30pm~9pm at CPR @cprnyc (361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211) ticket $0 - $25 Artists sharing works: Maho Ogawa, Kate Williams, Rohelle Jamila, and AJ Wilmore, curated by mayfield brooks /events/open-studios-curated-by-mayfield-brooks (link in bio) Maho Ogawa: “Nothing to Watch” Performed by Carolyn Hall @gatablanco , Annie MingHao Wang @snapshotturtle , Emily Young @_emyoung , and Maho Ogawa “Nothing to Watch” is a performance inspired by Japanese Tea Ritual and Zen meditation. “In 2022, I began researching the Japanese Tea Ritual, visited Zen gardens and the historic Japanese Tea House, designed by the pioneer Tea Master, Sen-no Rikyu, in Kyoto. I then conducted a survey on people’s daily rituals in New York to explore the connection between Japanese Tea/Zen culture and the local community. Research and results from the survey, along with an overview of Japanese Tea Culture, and an interview with a Japanese Tea Master, were published as an online magazine, “a place where individuals become a whole,” by Culture Push At CPR, I’ll invite dancers to experiment with incorporating the practice of Zen meditation into choreographic scores.” 15min wip show from our previous show in June at Judson Church “Nothing to Watch (wip)” - excerpt (pinned at @suisomaho ) photo 1&2 by Rachel Keane @rk_co_image

I'm excited to perform at Butsu Bustu #8 @butsubutsu , a participatory, barter-based tea event, on Saturday, September 6th, at 2 and 4 p.m. at Columbus Park NYC. We'll perform a Zen garden-inspired movement score with Ben @the_real_bgoosman and Emily @_emyoung at the Columbus Park, along with tea sessions by @butsubutsu and collaborating artists. Limited sign-ups for tea and seated spots will open 30 minutes before each session. You can also join as a standing audience without registration. Details are below. Please join us for a chill and meditative start to the autumn. 〜〜〜〜 You’re invited to Butsu Butsu #8 Saturday, September 6th, Columbus Park Butsu Butsu is a participatory barter-based tea happening series that explores gift culture through exchange. Instead of monetary payment, guests are invited to offer a form of barter—goods, skills, or favors. Now in its 8th edition, Butsu Butsu brings together artists from diverse creative disciplines for a shared, improvisational experience. Collaborating artists for this edition include choreographer/performers Suiso co. (Maho Ogawa with Benjamin Goosman and Emily Young); ceramicist Jennie Jieun Lee; designers Kristin Dickson-Okuda and Shin Okuda; artists Takuya Ikezai and Miyuki Akiyama; and musicians Barry Weisblat, Che Chen, Talice Lee, Masami Tomihisa and Lary7. Two sessions will be held at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Guests may reserve a seated spot (limited to 10 participants per session; sign-up opens 30 minutes prior) or join as standing audience members without registration. I hope you can join and share a moment with us. Warmly, @butsubutsu

duet-in-progress at the @womeninmotionnyc Salon #32, supported by the @bechdelproject - thank you for having us!

What it feels like to be chosen by MR Open Performance Lottery🌟 🌟🌟 See you Tuesday, April 22nd 7PM!

🎉Open Performance continues! | Join us Tue, April 22!! To learn more visit our website /events/1348/ or click on #linkinbio Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 Time: 7pm Location: MR Studios, 122CC (150 First Avenue) Price: $5 suggested donation 🎉Open Performance | April 22, 2025 Artists: Araya Morris, Kierra Nguyen, Emily Young, and Andrew Riad Moderating Artist: Wendell Gray II (2024-25 AIR) 🎉What is Open Performance? A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-process, for artists at all stages of their development selected through a randomized lottery. The events are centered around a moderated discussion between the artists and audience providing an opportunity to experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. Photo credit: Rachel Keane, 2022. [ID: A carousel of three photos. 1-3. A performer draped in black sheer fabric in motion in the center of the studio floor, an audience observes on the perimeter. Each slide contains information in the caption. END ID.]

mirror study, part 2

mirror study, part 1

WORKS IN PROGRESS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: 🌼 Kierra Nguyen & Emily Young (@kierra_nguyen @_emyoung ) 🌼 untitled The duet offers abstractions of the mundane, unveiling secret sorrows and internal chaos in search of release. Performed tonight at our Works In Progress event at @pageantpageantpageant - doors 7:30pm, tickets via link in bio. Don’t miss it!! ABOUT KIERRA & EMILY: Kierra Nguyen is a Seattle-born dancer and visual artist based in NYC. A multidisciplinary artist at heart, she draws from her background as a visual artist and musician to explore composition, musicality, and visual rhythms. Her installation performance vessels with Chloe Brown has been presented at A Space Gallery and Green Space. Her improvisational performances have been shown at Seattle Center with The Seattle Project, SHOW 4 performance & party by CO—, Malacarne’s GATTO NERO, and as a part of her Flight Deck Residency at Open Flight Studio. She has had the privilege of performing in works by Amy O’Neal, CommonForm Dance Project, Gil Kerer, Kate Wallich, LanDforms Dance, Pat Graney, and Alysia Ramos & Nathan Trice. Emily Young is a dance artist born and raised in NYC. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and received her B.A in Dance and American Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. During her time at Barnard, she performed in works by Doug Varone, David Dorfman, Colleen Thomas, and Okwui Okpokwasili. She recently collaborated in Leah Samuels’ The Meadow presented at PAGEANT. Emily’s choreographic work is continually informed by literary and theoretical modes of investigation. Her collaboration with Kierra Nguyen is supported by Motive Brooklyn as a 2024 Space Grantee. . . Photo 1 Kierra Nguyen Photo 2 Lili Davis . . #createart #createartperformance #dance #art #pageant #bushwick