WHITE WAVE YOUNG SOON KIM DANCE COMPANY

Here NOW

(World Premiere)

Architectural Design of the Human Heart

CONTACT: Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director:info@whitewavedance.com, (718) 855-8822 WHAT:WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company will premiere Here NOW WHERE: Museum of Arts and Design: 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019 WHEN: November 4th & 5th, 2011, performances at 7:00pm TICKETS: $25 general / $15 members and students; available at http://www.madmuseum. org/events/here-now-0 or 1-800-838-3006 A piece by Young Soon Kim in collaboration with the performers
Choreographed & Directed by Young Soon Kim Original Music Composed & Performed by Marco Cappelli Film & Set design by Anna Kiraly Video by David Tirosh Lighting design by Yuriy Nayer Dramaturgy by James Leverett Danced by Miguel Anaya, Timothy Emmett Lee Ward, Fanny Gombert, Amanda Hinchey, Faith Hunter Kimberling, Juhwan Hwang, Unjin Kim, Trenard Mobley, Emily Pope-Blackman, Jake Szczytek, Mei Yamanaka.

Here NOW, an ambitious collaboration, is a work of courage and rapturous beauty, breaking and
broadening the boundaries of dance. Artistic Director Young Soon Kim creates works of vision and movement language in reverence and awe of the novelties that reflect the inner landscape of human emotion. reaching into the inner territories of the imagination, passion and spirit to create new expressions of contemporary dance.

Here NOW original music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation.
This program is made possible in part by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; the Puffin Foundation; New York Community Trust; Korean Cultural Service, NY; the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Republic of Korea, HeyKorean, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, and the John Ryan Company.

WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company

Formed in 1988, the mission of WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is to inspire audiences of all cultures with the multi-dimensional aspects of complete dance staging and productions which reflect themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Young Soon Kim, the Companys Artistic Director, creates works of vision and movement language that reach into the inner territories of the imagination, passion and the spirit to create new expressions of dance. We are committed to the creation of a union between the natural rhythm of the planet and the primal essence of the human spirit. WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company wishes to both share its love of dance and to create works of such power, penetration and feeling that audiences renew their concern for other living beings, their connection with nature, and their appreciation for the rhythmic designs that unite us all. Young Soon Kim and the company have appeared on many principal stages both in the US and the Far East -Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacobs Pillow, American Dance Festival, Theater at St. Clemens, Florence Gould Hall, Judson Memorial Church, Dancenow Downtown Festival, National Theater of Seoul (Korea), National Theater of Taipei (Taiwan), Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts, Ichibangi Theater (Japan), as well as at regional venues across the United States. Since 2001, the company has been based at its DUMBO Brooklyn home, WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater, where Kim annually presents her new works and selected repertory, as well as produces three large-scale festivals: DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, WAVE RISING SERIES and Cool New York DANCE Festival.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Young Soon Kim (Artistic Director/Choreographer): Acclaimed nationally and internationally, Young
Soon Kims choreography has been described as visually stunning and emotionally rich. Her 30-year career began as a brilliant performer, appearing at major festivals and collaborating with music greats. In addition to her companys NY Seasons, Kim has choreographed for City Contemporary Dance Company in Hong Kong, Seoul Contemporary Dance Company, and the St. Gallen Dance Loft in Switzerland, among others. Since founding WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Company in 1988, Kim and her company have traversed the globe, performing her repertory of 54 original works. Tours of her work include: 60 days tour to the Far East to Korea, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, where Ms. Kim interviewed with CNNs Inside Asia, which was broadcast internationally. Ms. Kim was a featured artist in the documentary film Arirang: The Korean American Journey, which premiered at the Smithsonian Institution and aired on a PBS Nationwide Broadcast in 2003. In recent years, her creative output and her companys appearances have accelerated, including 2011s SummerStage and triumphal appearances at the 2011 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, including a glittering GALA Opening Night performance that featured a sneak preview of Here NOW.

Marco Cappelli (Composer/Musician): A renowned guitar virtuoso, Cappellis extraordinary artistic path
began with many years of demanding music studies (Conservatorio di S. Cecilia, Rome; Musik Akademie, Basel). Since then, his diverse accomplishments have been in the classical music, jazz and avant-garde worlds, including associations with musicians Anthony Coleman, Butch Morris, Enrico Rava, Marc Ribot, DJ Logic, and Elliott Sharp, and choreographers Maddalena Scardi, Enrico Tedde, Karole Armitage, and Young Soon Kim. Cappelli is regularly invited to perform by classical music associations and by festivals of jazz music and improvised music, has participated in premieres of new works by composers such as Junghae Lee, Giorgio Tedde, and Claudio Lugo, and has produced recordings, such as The Extreme Guitar Project, featuring ten compositions written for him by leading composers of the New York City Downtown scene. Cappelli is also a charter member of the Ensemble Dissonanzen.

Anna Kiraly - visual artist / set and costume designer:

A multi-disciplinary artist from Hungary residing in New York, Anna Kiralys visual designs have been seen throughout Eastern Europe and for the past decade in New York. Anna graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts; she creates set, costume and video design for a wide range of productions. Recent and past theater projects include production design and video for DOG and WOLF (59E59), FLIP SIDE, set design for TERRIBLE THINGS (Pearl/DAmour at PS122), costumes for THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING and DARKLING (American Opera Projects), KAFKA FRAGMENTS with Peter Sellars at Zankel Hall, and production design for ISABELLA, CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN and PAY UP with the Pig Iron Company. In Europe, she collaborated with the Russian director Anatoly Vassiliev.

James Leverett began his career as an actor on Broadway and beyond. He created the position of director
of Literary Services at Theatre Communications Group (TCG), where he helped initiate many publications, including American Theatre magazine. He received the first Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) award for services to the field. His writings have appeared in numerous national and international publications, among them the Village Voice and Yales Theater for which he is a contributing editor. He has worked as dramaturg throughout the United States, most recently at the Berkshire Theatre Festival (Heartbreak House, Mrs. Warrens Profession, Candida, Waiting for Godot) and the New York Shakespeare Festival (The Bacchae). He is professor in the Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama

David Tirosh:

Originally from Israel, David is a multi-media artist, performer and designer. David is the Co-Founder of WAX, a supportive environment that inspires discourse among artists in all media. In 2004, he became the Company Manager of 3-Legged Dog, freelance designer, performer, artistic advisor and media support. In 2008 he became the Technical Director of Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo and the Managing Director of the HomeBase project. Most recently he co-founded with designer Alex Koch Ghost Corporeal, a collaborative collective design house.

Yuriy Nayer (Lighting Designer) :

was born in Belarus, but has proudly called New York his home for almost 15 years. Yuriy works as a Lighting Designer for live performing arts in New York as well as abroad. After lighting several of her renowned dance festivals, he is thrilled to be working with Young Soon again on this new work. International Credits include: Werevertumorro, a new theatrical event based on a hugely popular Mexican video blog (Mexico); Anjou, the musical (Korea, China, Mexico); The Store YaaSamar! Dance Theatre (Jordan, Palestine, Israel). Other recent Dance Credits: Disappearances (World Premier/ MMAC) by Paul Sanasardo; recreated the lighting for Jane Dudleys Harmonica Breakdown and Time Is Money, also at MMAC. Select New York Theatre Credits: The Shaggs (Playwrights Horizons); Bridgeboy (The Active Theatre); The Mire and With Aarons Arms Around Me (Negro Ensemble Company/ Cherry Lane Theatre); I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates, a staged reading to benefit Safe Horizon (Gerald W. Lynch Theatre); Being Sellers (59E59/ Brits Off-Broadway); Parenting101, the musical (Emelin Theatre); 348 (Dixon Place); Interchange (The Workshop Theatre); In Loco Parentis (FringeNYC 10); Colored Peoples Time (NEC/ MITF 10 Best Lighting Design Award); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Planet Connections Festivity Best Lighting Design Award); Two Rooms (The Active Theatre); The Sandbox (June Havoc Theatre/ MITF 09); The Night Watcher (Primary Stages). Other credits: The Runt of the Litter National Tour. www.yuriynayer.com.

DANCERS:
Timothy Emmett Lee Ward
hails from Abita Springs, Louisiana. He holds a BFA in dance from The Juilliard School. He can be seen dancing with the Merce Cunningham Repertory Group, Mary Seidman and Dancers, Tze Chun Dance Company, Douglas Dunn & Dancers and Pat Catterson. Now he is delighted to join the ranks of Young Soon Kims WHITE WAVE. Thanks to everyone for everything. is from Tokyo, Japan. Upon graduation she relocated to New York in 2008. Originally trained in classical ballet, Mei searched to dance more freely and began to study hip hop, modern, and contemporary. She has worked with Jennifer Archibald, Saul Ulerio, Eunhee Lee, Malcolm Low, Jenni Hong, and others. Her own choreographic works have been presented at The Tank, club ASIA, Jennifer Muller/The works, Dance Masters of America, New Steps, LITTERA URBAN, and in Japan. Mei is currently a Fresh Tracks resident artist at Dance Theatre Workshop. This is Meis second season with WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

Mei Yamanaka

Amanda Hinchey is originally from Winchester,

Massachusetts, she attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and received her BFA in 2009. Amanda has danced professionally with Loraine Chapman the Company, Mari Meade Dance Collective, Amalgamate Dance Company and is currently also dancing with Chen & Dancers. She was one of the recipients of 20102011 William R. Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Education, where she presented her choreography at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center. This is Amadas first season with the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Company. York has been inspiring Fannys dance since she arrived 3 years ago. A native from France, Fanny trained in ballet, jazz, afro and contemporary in Paris as well as Graham in New York. As a member of Graham II directed by Virginie Mecene, she performed locally and nationally in theaters such as the Joyce Theater, the Baryshnikov Art Center, the Skirball Center, the 92 Y Theater among others. In the past year, she has been performing with Nimbus Dance Company directed by Sam Pott, Yin Yue Dance, Caterina Ogar and Abarukas Dance Company as well as on an international tour with The Martha Graham Dance Company. Fannys interests lie in music, circus, sets and costumes and she hopes that she will be able to combine it to her dancer career in the years to come. Fanny joined WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company in July 2010. (North Carolina) is a performing artist, teacher, choreographer, and video artist. She is an alumni of the North Carolina School of the Arts(1991). She received her BFA in Dance Performance/Choreography from The Ohio State University(1997) and her MFA in Dance/Choreography from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts(2007). She has performed/ toured with Malcolm Low, johannes wieland, Gerald Casel, Bridget Moore Dance, Chimaera Physical Theater, BalletMet Ohio, and Charleston Ballet Theatre. She currently performs with WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, Hilary Easton + Co. Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, and Tiffany Mills Dance Company. She created HoverBound Productions in 2006, and her choreography and video work have been produced in New York at The DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, WAVE RISING SERIES, Cool New York Dance Festival, St. Marks Church, Mulberry Street Theatre, Chez Bushwick, 3rd Ward, and The TANK. Emily has been with WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Company since 1999.

Juhwan Hwang is native from Seoul, Korea. He

studied architect design and dance choreography. He has also taken many advanced composition workshops in Korea, and throughout Europe. He explored his own style and voice as he went rather than sticking to one place of study. He was performed at Arko Arts Theater small hall, Jung Dong Theaters, Seoul Arts Center Jayu Theater, and LIG Art Hall. He was a member of TES Dance Company in Korea and then moved to USA in 2008. In USA, he has trained primarily at DNA. Juhwan has performed Kumble Theater at Brooklyn College, DMAC, Judson Church, John Ryan Theater, and Dance Space at Washington DC. He danced with Diane McCathy, Sunhwa Jung, and most recently began working with Jinju Song-Begin, Kuan-Yu Chen, Nellie Rainwater, and Karen Srikalima Harvey. Currently he is also member of the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company. a dancer and choreographer from Seoul, Korea. She holds a Master Degree in Choreography and an Undergraduate Degree from Se-Jong University in Seoul, Korea. She then performed with Sun-hee Jang Ballet Company, Made in Dance Company (MDC) and with choreographers in Korea. After graduation from the Master degree, she went to a few different countries such as Canada, England, Belgium, France, Germany and Australia to get further dance training as well as choreography skills. Since her arrival in New York City in 2010, she has danced with White Wave Dance Company, Marlike Ellasberg, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, The Next Stage Project Company, Gabrielle Lansner Dance Company, Nellie Rainwater, Michell Amara Micca and Seop Dance in NY. a Miami-native, attended the New World School of the Arts College as a fellowship student. Soon after training, he performed internationally as an aerial artist with Royal Caribbean International, awarded by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts a Finalist in Modern Dance, also a gold medalist by the NAACP ACT-SO competition. Currently performs with Company Stefanie Batten Blands French American based troupe; uniting universal beliefs, styles and artists continent to continent. He recently assisted Ms. Bland on a new work for Ailey II Legacy of Inheritance, which premieres in Athens, Greece this fall. Trenard played Alonzo in the Central and South American tour of CATS. This is his first season with the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Company.

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Unjin Kim is

Emily Pope-Blackman

Trenard

Mobley,

DANCERS:
is a Mexican-American artist living and working in New York City. Anaya, dancer, choreographer, and photographer has performed with Bill.T.Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co, Mikhail Baryshnikovs White Oak Dance Project, Liz Gerring Dance Co, Other Shore Dance Co, and Martha Clarks Garden of Earthly Delights amongst other dance projects. In 2007 Anaya was assistant choreographer to Bill.T.Jones on the TONY award-winning Spring Awakening. He is currently working with Company Stefanie Batten Bland. A proud alumni of the 23rd annual highly prestigious Eddie Adams Photography Workshop, he is also one of the founding members of NYC BRIDGE PROJECT, a photography program designed to support at risk youth in the Bronx. Anaya continues to fuse his dance and photographic worlds, and is currently creating his next dance piece The Shadows We Make mentored by Ron Brown funded by Harlem Stage, E-Moves. This is Miguels first season with the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Company.

Miguel Anaya

is originally from New Haven, CT. He began his movement career studying gymnastics and springboard diving for the majority of his childhood and adolescence. Discovering dance in his teens, he went on to receive a BA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Working as a freelance dancer in NYC, Jake has also worked with many others over the years, and can currently be seen dancing for Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, Mary Seidman & Dancers, and choreographing his own work on high schoolers in Westchester. This is Jakes first time dancing with WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

Jake Szczypek

Faith Hunter Kimberling grew up in Maryland,

received a B.A. in English from Bucknell, and has had the pleasure of dancing in small off-broadway theaters and intimate lofts to grand theaters such as the Southern Theater in Ohio and New Yorks City Center. Faith is thrilled to be working on this show and dancing again with WAVE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, with whom danced for many years and had the opportunity to perform in China and Inner Mongolia. Faith currently dances with CEule Dance and Lori Beliloves Isadora Duncan Dance Company. This summer she performed in the NY Fringe Festival in Never look in the Mirror When You are Dancing, directed by award-winning film director David Keating. Faith has also worked with Pilobolous Creative Services, Linda Diamond and Company, Molissa Fenley, and Anna Sokolow in addition to performing in many musicals regionally and in New York. Faith teaches creative movement, Isadora Duncan technique, ballet, modern and jazz to children, teens, and adults. She is honored to be working with such a great team and gives big thanks to everyone involved. Love and light to all, especially to her husband Mike and beautiful daughters Jillian and Elena.

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