Dean Moss & Yoon Jin Kim
Kisaeng becomes you
Post-Show Talk Feb 25 with Levi Gonzalez
Friday Night Toast Feb 27, Free Wine Reception
"Moss is a master of theatrical halftones.....His worlds have the enticement of whispers; their delicacy makes us pay unusually close attention." - Robert Greskovic, Village Voice
Featuring a performance that asks audience members to echo the lives of the kisaeng - young women trained in the arts for the entertainment of Korean aristocracy from the 10th to the 20th centuries - Kisaeng becomes you contemplates parallels between kisaengs' use of poetry and contemporary artist's use of social networking and videos. Through the work Dean and Yoon Jin engage the audience in an exploration of sincerity, illusion, isolation, and the desperate desire for connection.
With Yuree Bae; Jiseon Kwon; Mihyun Lee; Soyeoun Lim and Jeongeun Yang
Original Music by Okkyung Lee
- Kisaeng becomes you is a co-presentation of Dance Theater Workshop, The Seoul International Dance Festival, Gametophyte Inc. and The Yoon Jin Kim Dance Company. Kisaeng becomes you was commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop and received production support from the Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography. It is honored to be the first project to benefit from the new institutional partnership between Dance Theater Workshop and MANCC supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by a Multi-Arts Production Fund grant (supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation) and an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. Kisaeng becomes you received residency and development support from Kookmin University, and is generously sponsored by Korea Foundation, Arts Council Korea and the Korean Cultural Service NY.
Dance Theater Workshop performances generally run 60 - 90 minutes without an intermission. Performances start promptly at 7:30pm, there is no late seating.