30 May 2009 | Saturday 20:30
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Duration: 50'
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Dance Without Bodies is a dance and mixed-media work which lingers between pre-set score and improvisation. In a unique "Live Processing" system she developed, Koosil-ja asks the dancer to develop an "invisible nervous system" outside of her skin and to extend her body and gestures to connect with the video monitor.
Dance Without Bodies is a dance and digital media work, which was originally built around two simultaneous, yet spatially disconnected solos to experiment on virtual aspect of body and create "new body" that has no distinction between "my" body with "other" bodies and objects. For iDANS 2009, Dance Without Bodies is rearranged for one performance space in order to highlight Live Processing. Drawing from Koosil-ja's performance work with The Wooster Group and based on her study of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's key concept Body Without Organs, Koosil-ja created a performance technique/video system named Live Processing. The audience would see how each dancer renders movement unique from each other and each time they perform. Live Processing creates a networked body with 15 video monitors and 3 video movement sources and awakes potentiality of each dancer for producing movements which are new and beyond their training and memory.
Concept, choreography, and costumes by Koosil-ja | Music by: Geoff Matters | Dance by: Melissa Guerrero and Koosil-ja Lighting by: Jane Shaw | Song Credits: Out Of There by Clone (words and song melody by Koosil-ja); Darker Than Blue by Koosil-ja (words and song) and Geoff Matters (music); System and Stabwounded by Lance Blisters | Funding Credits: The Jerome Foundation, USArtists International. Additional funding: Rockefeller Brothers Fund | Support: the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program and The Fund for Creative Communities, the Greenwall Foundation, Experimental Television Center Presentation Fund and Finishing Fund, Meet The Composer Creative Connections, the Jerome Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The American Music Center Live Music for Dance program, the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Koosil-ja creates dance and digital environment for koosil-ja/ danceKUMIKO since 1986. Koosil-ja has received numerous commissions, presented works, taught dance composition workshops nationally and internationally. The New project Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image and Algorithm is commissioned by and will premier at Dance Theater Workshop New York City in March 2010. Koosil-ja has received five National Endowment for the Arts - Choreographer Fellowships, three NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007 and a one month residency Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2008. In 2004, Koosil-ja received a Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award in Choreography for the creation of mech[a]OUTPUT and deadmandancing EXCESS. Koosil-ja has worked with the Wooster Group for their productions, North Atlantic and To You The Birdie! (Phedre). She composes the music and writes songs for all of her dance works. Her work for music began in 1984 when she co-founded the band Bosho as a percussionist and vocalist, toured over thirty cities in Europe and Japan and published several recordings. She performed with Takehisha Kosugi, the music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She wrote songs with The Wooster Group for To You the Birdie! (Phedre). Her composition, Like Us, was released on the Agriculture Record label from New York in 2002 and licensed for Robert Wilson's video portray for Beijing Exhibition in May 2008.
Further Reading:
Dance Without Bodies_Gia Kourlas_NY Times
Dance Without Bodies_Deborah Jowitt_Village Voice
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