{"id":7091,"date":"2026-08-25T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/?post_type=artistes-recherche&#038;p=7091"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:37:52","slug":"lyzah","status":"publish","type":"artistes-recherche","link":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/en\/artists-research\/lyzah\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyzah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-c90co5-942ddd9db8acc5b43a4a0ca38d02f29b main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-7091'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-b3xnn9-518a3c0986dd44db6c9f4a3904d4c74a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><span class=\"ls-page-titre\">Lyzah<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mgil49e4-dfef0425945c9052eb20181cc4fddb62\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mgil49e4-dfef0425945c9052eb20181cc4fddb62 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mgil49e4-dfef0425945c9052eb20181cc4fddb62 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mgil49e4-dfef0425945c9052eb20181cc4fddb62 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  ls-home-top-image av-has-copyright av-copyright-always'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-7092 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7092 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1.jpg\" alt='' title='1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang (1)'  height=\"1920\" width=\"1487\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1.jpg 1487w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1-798x1030.jpg 798w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1-768x992.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1-1190x1536.jpg 1190w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1-1162x1500.jpg 1162w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.pound_lyzah_CR-alger_ji-liang-1-546x705.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1487px) 100vw, 1487px\" \/><\/div><small class=\"avia-copyright\">alger ji-liang<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgil4juv-eb8e62b43cb330b47af0fb62d783602d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-50'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alyssa Favero, aka Lyzah, is a street\/club dancer who pours energy into the wh\/aacking scene through teaching, battling, and producing. As a performer, they thrive in creative spaces that value street\/club dancers&#8217; spontaneity: We All Fall Down (Montreal), Compagnie KHOR \/ Khoudia Tour\u00e9 (Senegal\/France), Simran Sachar (Vancouver). They also facilitate safe(r) spaces of expression and growth through workshops at Parquette (Montreal), What Lab (Vancouver), Galaw.Co Dance Theater (Philippines), and Open Circle (Singapore).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their choreographic work has been supported by organizations including Circuit-Est centre chor\u00e9graphique (Montreal), Studio dB (Berlin), and Odd Meridian Arts (Vancouver). A lifelong student, Lyzah has taken workshops with OGs from house, wh\/aacking, and hip hop cultures, and has ongoing mentorships with Marie-Reine &#8220;Mqueen&#8221; Kabasha in wh\/aacking and Victor V\u00e2n Tran &amp; Samuelle Auclair in hustle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilfnqj-7ae00f11cf5c81712c775b11c20fa52c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-artiste-liens'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><a class=\"ls-artiste-lien ls-artiste-siteweb\" href=\"http:\/\/alyssafavero.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> <a class=\"ls-artiste-lien ls-artiste-instagram\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alyssafavero\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-8oh2vp-e190b3292fcf019b530ab06671039a4b main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-7091'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilghl6-8f7255eacb7ba4ccd0959d25a84ebf6d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-100'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 class=\"center\">pound<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-72ij51-64a1d0e4787257e29badad624f11362d sc-av_one_full av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-72ij51-64a1d0e4787257e29badad624f11362d\">\n.flex_column.av-72ij51-64a1d0e4787257e29badad624f11362d{\nwidth:100%;\nmargin-left:0;\n}\n#top .flex_column_table.av-equal-height-column-flextable.av-72ij51-64a1d0e4787257e29badad624f11362d .av-flex-placeholder{\nwidth:0%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-72ij51-64a1d0e4787257e29badad624f11362d av_one_full  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  ls-font-28 first flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilhtya-569e34d78b22e766157de465f07d731f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-deux-colonnes-suivi'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pound<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at its essence, a ceremony integrating wh\/aacking and sound-based practices to explore the body&#8217;s newest and oldest memories. This choreographic work honours ancestral wisdom and the inherent power of spirit within performance. The title is both a subversion and a sonic invitation: an ode to the cycle of harvesting rice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through collaborative wh\/aacking \u2014 a street and club dance form that emerged from Punking in the 1970s underground gay club scenes of Los Angeles, shaped by Asian, Latine, and African diasporic communities \u2014 and through sound-based practices integrating looped voice, poetry, rap, and expressions of grief and joy, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pound<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> creates embodied spaces where intergenerational knowledge, the sacred, the sacrilegious, and the sensual can coexist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lyzah&#8217;s research is rooted in teachings received directly from Mamerto Lagitan Tindogan, an eighth-generation Mumbaki, shaman, healer, and rice farmer of the Ifugao people in the Cordillera mountains of northern Philippines. Through this exchange, Lyzah learned rice-farming patterns and grounding techniques whose principles of repetition, breath, land-based knowledge, and connection to the unseen form the foundation of the work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working with five artists from the Asian diaspora, Lyzah investigates how movement and sound can transform performers into vessels of ancestral knowing, at times accessing rage and ecstatic joy. Here, storytelling becomes a practice of liberation in honour of past generations and those yet to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. Autoclose: 1 --><div  class='flex_column av-5gcp1x-8005bcfa694dd36765f176c74f8d02af av_one_full  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-3kis3p-3f477bc84963f66a9282aac44412d419 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  ls-font-28 first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilm352-8463585c31eac640e9d498fd8ca5059a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-artiste-credits-titre'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>CREDITS<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-mgilni7n-efebf01b54477d8ad738df91aa1e3f57  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-mgilmw5w-91bdadf4bae648e14a6fd715b1f009f0'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1'>Team<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><b>Creation, Choreography, Performance and Production<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alyssa Favero aka Lyzah<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Sound Design and Performance<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kimmortal<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Collaboration and Performance<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fran Chudnoff aka Francesca<br \/>\nFranz<br \/>\nFranny<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Collaboration and Performance<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rinre<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Collaboration and Performance<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eric Leong aka Komodo<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Mentorship and Outside Eye<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie-Reine Kabasha aka Mqueen<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Mentorship<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emily Gual<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Production Support<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allison Lang<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Previous collaborators<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rhythm<br \/>\nReed<br \/>\nPaolo Askia<br \/>\nLamont<br \/>\nJosh Ongcol<br \/>\nRua Inak<br \/>\nAna Sosa<br \/>\nKatie Leblanc<br \/>\nCaitlin McCormick<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-276l79-022841fa0f5019cadaaeb5b4b03f1269 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7092,"template":"","class_list":["post-7091","artistes-recherche","type-artistes-recherche","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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