Here is our exciting news!!!

Da·Da·Dance Project will be performing at SIDance Festival on October 19.  If your are in Korea and haven’t seen the company perform, this is your chance!!!
More details: http://www.sidance.org

WHEN: OCTOBER 19 at 8PM

WHERE: Jayu Theater of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

September 11th and 12th at 8PM
Live Arts Studio
919 N. 5th Street

We will be presenting a new work “All My Socks Have Holes” as a part of at “eight choreographers / eight new works”, Live Arts Festival on September 11-12 at 8PM.

Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival and we are invited to share an evening with Jumatatu Poe.  Live music will be performed by our wonderful collaborator, Alban Bailly.

Post-show discussion moderated by Craig T. Peterson, director, Live Arts Brewery (LAB), following the performance on September 11.

Click here to get more information about the show and online ticket purchase.

To read two Live Arts Festival blog articles, click here.

Da Da Dance Project Goes South Of The Border

Eun Jung Choi and the Reconstrucion of Memories

We are happy to announce that we will be dancing at this great event.  Please stop by.  The event is free.  You just pay for your drinks.  Sit back and enjoy!

What: An annual celebration of Philly talent, selected by last year’s Rocky Award recipients with a cabaret flare.

When: Monday, September 6th at 8 PM (Come early for our Philadelphia is Dancing! Calendar Launch Party)

Where: Live Arts Festival Bar Spring Garden & Delaware Ave. Note: Delaware Ave changes name to Columbus Blvd.

Free. Cash Bar.  Hope to see you there!!!

MORE INFORMATION: www.danceusaphiladelphia.org
www.livearts-fringe.org/rockys.cfm

Sans Souci is proud to announce its collaboration with Ob-Art Collective (www.ob-art.com). The festival will be screening ¿Bailamos? (Let’s Dance) as the “best of” our Festival in “Punt Multimedia” in Barcelona on July 14th, 2010.

Also it would be screened at San Souci’s Boulder Program, 2010 at University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

Short films and live performance
Friday and Saturday, September 10-11, 7:30PM
Tickets: Evening events: $12 General Admission. Student passes are free but seating is limited. Reservations are recommended. All seating is first-come, first-served. Reserve passes.
Morning and afternoon events: Free admission.

More detailed info, click here

Let’s Dance, 2010, 2 min, 16mm B&W
Produced and Directed by Malia Bruker, Oscar Molina
Choreography and dancing by Eun Jung Choi, Guillermo Ortega Tanus
Featuring Da Da Dance Project
Music composed by Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli
Music performed by Miles Davis and the Lighthouse All-Stars
Filmmaker Malia Bruker, Oscar Molina
Synopsis: “Let’s Dance” is a sensual black and white film that captures the relief that dance provides in everyday life. (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

To watch the film, ¿Bailamos? on our website, click HERE.

For more information about the festival, click HERE.

If you miss Live Arts Show in Philadelphia because you live in New York, we are coming up to perform in Flushing, Queens from September 17 to 18. Please come join us.  Here are more details! and don’t forget to visit our blog site.

variations2010.wordpress.com

YANGTZE REPERTORY THEATRE OF AMERICA PRESENTS:
BUBBLES: VARIATIONS IN A FOREIGN LAND #11
AN EVENING OF DANCE FEATURING NEW WORKS BY
EUN JUNG CHOI, JUNG WOONG KIM AND EUNHEE LEE
AT FLUSHING TOWN HALL SEPTEMBER 17-18

WHEN AND WHERE:
September 17th at 8pm (reception: 6:30-7:30pm); September 18th at 3pm & 8pm
Flushing Town Hall, 127-35 Northern Blvd. Flushing, NY
TRANSIT DIRECTIONS: from Manhattan, take 7 train to Main St. – Flushing (last stop)

TICKET RESERVATIONS can be made at 347-276-6225 or office@yangtze-rep-theatre.org.  Tickets are $15/TDF, general admission. A 10% discount applies for groups of 10 or more. For additional information, visit www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org.

New York, July 30^th – on September 17^th and 18^th, Yangtze Repertory Theatre will present “BUBBLES: Variations in a Foreign Land #11” at Flushing Town Hall, which features three new dance works by international (Korean) choreographers Eun Jung Choi, Jung Woong Kim and Eunhee Lee. The performance will invite audiences to float through intimate memories – familial, foreign and even fragmented – with dances that swim through the womb, weave between mother and daughter, and grapple with those distorted recollections formed along the way. Together, Eun Jung Choi’s All My Socks Have Holes (which will be presented at the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival), Jung Woong Kim’s My son and a smile, and Eunhee Lee’s Mothers culminate as a most personal passage through time, recalling episodes from here and afar, from infancy to adulthood. Featured is an exploration of repetition, stillness and complex contact work, a disjointed narrative of video and movement, and a special collaboration between artist and daughter. With live musical accompaniment by Alban Bailly and live bass performed by Joshua Morris, the performance will include videos by Grace Jaeyun Shin. Lighting the works is Federico Restrepo.

Beside the three choreographers, artists appearing will include: Marion Ramírez, Sarah Chang and Guillermo Ortega Tanus.

There will be an opening night reception on September 17th from 6:30 to 7:30PM.

ARTIST BIO:

Ali Fischer, a native Kentuckian, has been dancing for the last 16 years. In 1995, after receiving a B.A. in fine arts from the University of South Florida, Ali’s dance career began in Salt Lake City, UT where she worked with Repertory Dance Theater. Since then, she has worked for numerous choreographers across the country such as Nancy McCaleb, Allyson Green, John Malashock, Stephen Brown, The Lower Left Collective, Lynne Wimmer, Lindsey and Jason Dietz Marchant, Elsa Valbuena, Eun Jung Choi, and Jamie Jewett. Ali currently resides in Queens, New York where along with making dance, she also is a professional of the healing arts using massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, and yoga to complete her movement practice.

Curt Haworth is an expatriate Californian who lived in New York City for twenty years before moving to Philadelphia in 2009. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz and a MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  He has an eclectic movement background ranging from athletics to modern dance and release techniques, to yoga, contact improvisation and ballet.  His work has been shown in Philadelphia at: the Annenberg Center, The Painted Bride. The CEC, and various Fringe venues; and in NYC at: The Danspace Project, LA MAMA, DNA, Symphony Space, Movement Research at the Judson Church, IFNY, Dixon Place, PS122, Metamorphosis, DanceNow, New Dance Alliance; as well as at: Rockland Community College, Bennington College July Program, and Tanecne Divadlo in Bratislava, Slovakia. He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence in 2001-2002.  Curt performed with Lisa Race’s Race Dance from 1993-2000, and toured internationally with David Dorfman Dance from 1990 to 2002, while creating over 15 original roles.  He has taught regularly at Movement Research and DNA (formerly Dance Space Center) in NYC. He has taught and set work as a guest artist throughout the United States and Europe and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

In highschool, Gregory Holt learned how to build human towers and has been experimenting in movement ever since. With a strong interest in research and shared authorship, he has collaborated with many provisional, virtual, and conceptual groups. He does on-going work with Green Chair Dance Group, in residence at Mascher Space Co-op.

Bronwen MacArthur danced as a freelance artist with New York and Copenhagen (Denmark) based companies including those of Bill Young, Donna Uchizono and Tim Feldmann, among others. Bronwen formed MacArthur Dance Project in 2007 and her choreography has been performed in NY, New England, Russia and France.  MDP is featured in a documentary titled “Coming to Grips” produced and directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Lori Petchers which was recently presented at the Hartford International Film Festival and Dance New Amsterdam in NY.  MDP and its collaborative work have been supported by the LEF Foundation, NEFA’s Regional Dance Development Initiative, the New Haven Mayor’s Community Arts Grant, Vermont Performance Lab and the Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Project.  Bronwen has served as guest instructor at Connecticut College and co-taught, with Emily Coates and Joseph Roach, in the Theater Studies department at Yale University.  Bronwen moved to Philadelphia last summer.

J. Makary’s first dance film debuted at the American Dance Festival in 2006. Since then, she has developed projects influenced in equal measure by video art, classic and experimental cinema, and contemporary dance. Her work has been exhibited at NEXUS/foundation for today’s art, the Slought Foundation, and I-House in Philadelphia, and Zodiak Center for New Dance in Helsinki, Finland, among others. As part of her artist-in-residence appointment with Landmarks Exhibitions: Contemporary Projects, J. recently shot “Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe,” an experimental 16mm film featuring two dancers and two actors. The film and a sculptural installation are on view at Powel House, an 18th-century mansion in Philadelphia, until April 4, 2010.

Oscar J. Molina: 2008 – 2010 Graduate Film Student at Columbia University and Temple University.  2007 – 2008 Curator and Director, No Borders International Film Festival, Medellín, Colombia.  2004 to 2006. Director and Curator. Film Program, Centro Colombo Americano in Medellín,  a Colombia and U. S. Binational Center. And during the same time, Director and Editor, Kinetoscopio journal, longest-running cultural publication in the history of the country and the only journal dedicated to film and film making in Colombia.  1998 – 2004. Director, producer and screenwriter for documentaries and cultural, educational, informational, and institutional films for regional and national TV stations, Secretary of Education of Antioquia, University of Antioquia, Colombian Ministry of Culture, Mayor’s Office of Bogotá,  Human Rights Colombian Office, and Bogotá’s Archive, among others.  Some of his films has been selected and awarded by La Habana Latin American Film Festival, Cuba; the Audiovisual Products International Festival, FIPATEL, France; Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, the top journalism award in Colombia; Mexican Human Rights Festival (Contra el Silencio todas las Voces); Bogotá Film Festival, Bogotá; Cartagena International Film Festival, Cartagena de Indias; Rosario Film Festival, Rosario, Argentina; Latin American Documentary Festival, Mexico City; Next Frame Student Film Festival, among others.

Guillermo Ortega Tanus is the co-director of Da·Da·Dance Project, a duet repertory company which has been presented at many International venues and Festivals, performing works by Elise Knudson, Helena Franzén, Gerald Casel, Eun Jung Choi and himself since 2008.  As a choreographer, he strives to invent original movement vocabularies for each dance he makes. He often combines theatricality with visual metaphors. Apart from Da·Da·Dance Project, he has presented solos at Dixon Place, Newsteps Series, Merce Cunningham Studio, and Tlacochimaco in New York, and Foro Experimental, Fuego Nuevo, Los Talleres de Coyoacán, La Casa de Las Bombas in Mexico.  Currently he is a resident artist at nEW festival and a recipient of the “National Fund for the Culture and the Arts, Student Scholarship”. www.guillermoortega.net

January 10, 8PM

OVER-NITE SENSATION – Winter Edition

hosted by Bowerbird

Plays and Players Theater

1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia PA

Eun Jung will be improvising with Alban Bailly at this event. Other artists will include:

Leah Stein / Toshi Makihara

Michele Tantoco / Carlos Santiago

Melisa Putz / Jesse Kudler

Meg Foley / Chris Forsyth + one more

Guillermo will continue developing …eb oT during the residency this time. Also he will start a new project, Family Portrait. Please come join us at Meet the Artist/See the Work series on Sunday, January 10 from 4 to 7.

January 10, 4-7PM
Meet the Artists/ See the Work
University of the Arts, Terra Building, Studio 405
211 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia

This summer, we have been rehearsing in North Carolina, gearing up for our Joyce SoHo season. We are very excited about presenting Butter and Fly: Intends to Walk and we cannot wait to share our experience with you! Hope you can come to join us!

When is it and Where is Joyce SoHo?

July 30 – August 1, 2009
Butter and Fly: Intends to Walk
Company Season at Joyce SoHo
You can purchase tickets by calling 212-352-3101 or by clicking HERE
155 Mercer Street (Houston/Prince) New York, NY MAP