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A duet repertory company inspired by the Dada movement, Da·Da·Dance Project was founded by Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez and Guillermo Ortega Tanus in New York City. In the spirit of Dadaism, we challenge conventional notions of art making with travesty, absurdity, and physical authenticity; we constantly question aesthetic ideals. Drawing from a wealth of experiences in theater, music, poetry, multi-media, visual/commercial art, various dance styles from "traditional" to "cutting-edge" to "street dance" to "improvisation", we continuously seek to deliver a uniquely expressive vocabulary that communicates to all people and reveals our eccentricity. Our themes frequently include aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behavior and intelligence, with a curious mixture of the comic and tragic. In 2008, Da·Da·Dance Project appeared at La MaMa Moves Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival, Variations in a Foreign Land IX: Akin. Amin. Atin, 60×60 Dance and dancenOw, nEW Festival (Philadelphia), Festival, paraphrase/NEXUS (Philadelphia), Encuentro Internacional Nuevos Creadores a Escena (Guadalajara), Casa de las Bombas (Iztapalapa), and Teatro del Fuego Nuevo (Iztapalapa), presenting works by Gerald Casel, Elise Knudson, Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez and Guillermo Ortega Tanus. Recently, the company received LPAC LAB residency to develop a new work by Helena Franzén, which will be premiered at XI Muestra Internacional de Danza Contemporánea Oaxaca in March 2009. |