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

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.

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

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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.

Our company was selected for inclusion in the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour Roster for 2011.

www.pennpat.org

The first deadline for presenters to apply for funding for our engagement is February 15, 2011 (for performance engagements between June 1, 2011 and May 31, 2013)

Please contact us at dada@dadadanceproject.org for more details.

About PennPAT

The purpose of Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (PennPAT) is to increase opportunities for professional Pennsylvania-based performing artists to obtain successful touring engagements.

Through a multi-layered approach that includes grants to presenters, grants to artists, training for artists and marketing support, PennPAT seeks to nurture the diverse ecology of presenting and touring.

PennPAT offers support for touring engagements with PennPAT roster artists to presenters in:

* Delaware
* District of Columbia
* Maryland
* New Jersey
* New York
* Ohio
* Pennsylvania
* Virginia
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* West Virginia

Created as a unique public/private partnership administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, PennPAT continues to garner funding and guidance from its four founding partners: The Heinz Endowments, William Penn Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Análisis Cinético de Movimiento
Duración: 2 Hrs. / 10 dias (total 20 hrs)

Horario: 18:30 a 20:30 horas

Fecha: del 12 al 23 de julio
Costo: $1,500
Con Eun Jung Choi

Más informatión: http://www.lacanteraestudiodedanza.blogspot.com/

Eun Jung Choi bailarina de origen coreano que junto con Guillermo Ortega fundó Da Da Dance Project en Nueva York, una compañía de repertorio de duetos inspirada en el movimiento Dada, y ahora brinda el taller Análisis cinético en movimiento del 12 al 16 de julio de 18:30 a 20:30 horas. Costo $1,500.00

Otro de los grupos internacionales que se presentó en el Festival Avant Garde en Mérida fue el grupo originario de los Estados Unidos: Da·Da·Dance Project. Un punto a destacar es la calidad de los dos intérpretes que conforman el grupo y que uno de ellos es un bailarín mexicano: Guillermo Ortega Tanus, el otro integrante es la bailarina Eun Jung Choi. Su participación en el festival me provocó reflexiones sobre la interpretación en dueto. Conocemos más o menos las implicaciones que tienen los dúos en el ballet y su posibilidad de mostrar el virtusosismo de los bailarines. Sabemos que las intenciones del contemporáneo van por otro sendero, pero si pueden establecer fieles lazos de comunicación en bailarines que trabajan en pareja.

El trabajo en pareja en el escenario es el más comprometedor de todos y casi siempre se apela a él para mostrar lo esencial de temáticas y formas. En el teatro grandes luchas se dan en parejas que muestran su intimidad. y son eñ otur de force de las obras.  La comunicación entre los intérpretes es fundamental para transmitir al público la intención de la obra. La comunicación se basa en la relación que establece la pareja,  esta puede ser armónica, pero por lo general suele se antagónica. La tensión dramática es la más evidente para percibir estados de ánimo e historias.

Guillermo y Eun Jung establecen un juego complejo y cautivador en Getting UP, coreografía de Luke Gutgsell. A la vez es confrontación y a la vez es seducción de un par de seres. Mitad rivales mitad cómplices. Y así en juego de mitades, la primera mitad de la coreografía es sin música o la música es el silencio, y la segunda parte está dada por la atmósfera provocada por una canción que nos recuerda un aire romántico.

Pero en donde muestran la sabiduría que han adquirido como artistas de la escena estos integrantes de Da Da Dance Project es en los movimientos corporales. Deciden por la compenetración de los cuerpos que se tocan constantemente a ras de piso. Así se trasladan através del escenario, así se comunican ente sí. Y así van transmitiéndonos una serie de matices que nos conmueven. ¿Se trata de amantes? Probablemente, pero de esos que tienen que ver con el desencanto de un sociedad que alrededor nuestro pinta las paredes de gris. Como si tuvieran la necesidad de respirarse uno a uno se tocan y hablan, lo logran a travñes de una original forma de moverse. En la intimidad, los personajes se atreven a la cercanía elocuente, al toque sensual de frentes y no de sexos. En este movimiento se va dando un tono general de la obra, un tono contenido, el volcán a punto de ebullición.

La presencia de Da·Da·Dance Project en Mérida en el Festival Avant Garde fue un encuentro muy grato. Ojalá la relación con nuestro país se pueda dar con más frecuencia. Además de sus presentaciones impartieron un curso y montar obra nueva a un grupo local de Mérida. Ojalá los veamos pronto.