Dancing on Frozen Water
*Drawing on Ice Project*
Currently working on ice. I am not sure if I can make it to the level that I want, but I am having happy moments skating, no, dancing on frozen water. I get disappointed a lot by not being able to move as I want to, but I haven't given up yet. Taking another journey to the icy road. We will see if this is a complete failure or another possibility.
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Project Link: www.drawingyslee.weebly.com
Performed a Solo excerpt from a work-in-progress project called
DRAWing for the body & by the body
Cheonan Arts Center
Nov 24, 2017
*The video is in the Video Gallery
DRAWing for the body & by the body
Cheonan Arts Center
Nov 24, 2017
*The video is in the Video Gallery
New Book Published by Young Sun Lee
<바보book>
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Young Sun Art (Integrated art of text/image/typography/dance)
Date of Publication: Sept 28, 2017
Price: KRW20000
<바보book>
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Young Sun Art (Integrated art of text/image/typography/dance)
Date of Publication: Sept 28, 2017
Price: KRW20000
New Book Published by Young Sun Lee
<Black Drawing>
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Art Book with Creative Drawings and Writings in English & Korean
Date of Publication: Oct 1, 2016
Price: KRW15000
<Black Drawing>
All written & designed by Young Sun Lee
Genre: Art Book with Creative Drawings and Writings in English & Korean
Date of Publication: Oct 1, 2016
Price: KRW15000
Global Culture Exchange Through Dance 2
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Trionetta Nikki, a choreographer and dancer from the USA, visited the studio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5QYd0yjcs |
Global Culture Exchange Through Dance 1
Date: April 23, 2016
Invited Guest Artist: Rashmi Nair
Born & educated in India and currently residing in New York, Rashmi Nair is traveling and performing in the world as a solo Kathak dancer. She is giving a workshop/showcase performance at my studio. Pls come and join this little but tremendously valuable event!
Invited Guest Artist: Rashmi Nair
Born & educated in India and currently residing in New York, Rashmi Nair is traveling and performing in the world as a solo Kathak dancer. She is giving a workshop/showcase performance at my studio. Pls come and join this little but tremendously valuable event!
Finally I Made My Third Studio!
After two years of struggling, I finally got to have this rehearsal studio. Many episodes and stories to share in my journey to get here... I was disappointed enough and felt like I was in the war wearing invisible armors. The reality that I have to face as a 'naive' artist in this small city that I live is a tremendous threat. I've survived and finally have this shelter. I often times receive phone calls asking me what kind of place it is. Most people do not get it by my saying "a creative studio". They ask me whether I draw, paint, dance, take picture, and etc. Then, I say I do them all. Even more confused, people think my answer is very difficult to understand. I "Create" whatever I feel like creating. That's all I can say and that's very clear to me. Ahh... pls leave me alone for now.. I am very happy in the studio, finally, finally, finally a small world my own. My shell, my cave, & my virtual reality!~~
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Currently Working on Creative Space and a House for Artists!
To have my empty room in which I can dance and vomit all the crazy ideas of my mind has been my lifelong dream. I now realize that I might love an empty warehouse-like space even more than dancing and being an artist. Yes, I might have taken this long artistic journey to enjoy an empty room fully. Currently, I am in love with talking to empty studios. It has not been easy to find and maintain the studios. There is something that amuses me so much when I am in these spaces. So, I am going to be laid back here for a while and tell you what my next project will be later. I might have been already in the project, but I may wait a bit longer until I realize what that is all about. Well, let me soak into the mystery of these rooms for now......
My Creative Studio I
Photowork Exhibition <soul/soul>
Igong Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
Group Exhibition of <DangWee>
April 16-23, 2014
Photoworks by Young Sun Lee
Igong Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
Group Exhibition of <DangWee>
April 16-23, 2014
Photoworks by Young Sun Lee
Int'l Collaborative Project with a UK Partner, LaNua:
Objects, Either Alive or Dead
Awarded the grant to do the int'l collaborative project with a UK partner, Merav Israel at LaNua!!~
Supported by the Korea Artts Management Services, Creative Scotland, Eden Court
Oct 7 -22, 2013 Research in Korea
Nov 1-17, 2013 Research in Scotland
Photo by Woo-Hee Kim, Jasmin Falconer
Supported by the Korea Artts Management Services, Creative Scotland, Eden Court
Oct 7 -22, 2013 Research in Korea
Nov 1-17, 2013 Research in Scotland
Photo by Woo-Hee Kim, Jasmin Falconer
Performance: Reimagining <Homemade & Organic>
Place: Ansan Arts Center, Ansan, Kyonggi-Do
Date: Sept 13, 14 (Fri & Sat), 2013, 7:30pm
1 Stop from Gojan St. (#4 Blue Line from Seoul)
Produced by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Supported by Ansan Arts Foundation (Venue/Marketing)
"Open Arts Space Project"
http://www.ansanart.com/design/performance0101_view.asp?left=1&no=1290
Date: Sept 13, 14 (Fri & Sat), 2013, 7:30pm
1 Stop from Gojan St. (#4 Blue Line from Seoul)
Produced by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Supported by Ansan Arts Foundation (Venue/Marketing)
"Open Arts Space Project"
http://www.ansanart.com/design/performance0101_view.asp?left=1&no=1290
Photo by Woo-Hee Kim
Homemade & Organic:
Dance that Looks like No One but Me
2013 Open Space Project
Choreographic Intention
“Homemade & Organic are the two words that best represent my work process with movement and its quality. I prepared the works with numerous movement vocabularies out of my own body as a main object, which still looks strange and new though I live with it every day.” The performance consists of four movement solos and a video work; Snail III-Sexy Snail, Young-Sun Lee, Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond, Solitary Room Talks to Me, and Hairy Square Snail. The works are presented with short intervals between pieces, but they flow as if audiences were watching one full-length of work. Evelyn Ficarra and Kyja K-Nelson participated in the performance partially as a music and a video collaborator. The works feature pure abstract movement vocabularies with self-contained meanings, their unexpected compositional mix in space, and imaginative images derived out of this process as a whole.”
Collaboration with Evelyn Ficarra
Evelyn Ficarra has been collecting sounds since her early twenties, using them in her composition practice on an equal level with musical instrument and vocal sound sources, in a variety of musical and collaborative contexts. Since 2009 she has developed simple interfaces using the software program Max MSP with which she can improvise with these sounds, deploying them and manipulating them in real time performance situations. The pieces in this program are a mixture of
through-composed concert pieces from Ficarra's earlier repertoire (such as Deuce and vagues fenêtres); simple soundscapes with minimal processing (Rain for Young Sun and Waves for Young Sun); and pieces generated through
improvisation with the sounds (Clocks for Young Sun and Young Sun Mix, and also the sound track for the short film). All the pieces entitled 'sound scores' in this program were gathered together for Young Sun, specifically for this collaboration, in consultation with her. Young Sun Mix was improvised in the studio at the Djerassi resident artist program where they met.
Program
Opening: Waiting for Sexy Snail (appx. 20min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Rain for Young Sun
Snail III-Sexy Snail (appx. 7min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, excerpts from Vagues Fenêtres, for string trio and electronics, 2010
: It is the third piece in the Snail Series followed by Fast
Snail and Timid Snail, inspired by a yellow banana
slug and its sexual and flexible movement. Tyra Banks once said in a TV show
that sexiness is not a certain pose but a way to present oneself. I integrated
these conceptual and physical ideas of sexiness into a solo. Also, I tried to
contrast and abstract the violent environment and invisible threat placed
against this fragile object or feminine quality using musical elements and
limited space usage.
The electronic part from the original music, vagues / fenêtres (which translates as ‘waves / windows’) was used for this piece: “The electronic part is made entirely from string sounds, recorded during studio sessions with Victor Huguenin (violin), Nils Bultman (viola) and Ambre Tamagna (cello). (Evelyn Ficarra)”
Interval: Sexy Snail Goes to the Sea (appx. 5min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Waves for Young Sun
:“On a rainy day in spring 2012, I saw rows of tiny snails that were crawling on the road by the San Antonio beach in California. I almost tramped on them. And we shared silent greetings and went our own ways.”
Young Sun Lee (appx. 5min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, a 4:37 excerpt from Deuce (1993) for baroque flute, harpsichord and tape
: Young-Sun Lee is a self expressed in dance and Lee’s journey into the essence of dance. Lee learned that her physical characteristics could not be reconciled with the existing movement techniques such as ballet or modern techniques named as Merce or Martha. She took this difference as her strength and intended to create her own vocabulary that does not look like anyone’s style but her own. She dares to name her dance as Young-Sun Lee.
The piece was chosen to represent the dance dept. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for the 2010 American College Dance Festival (national) and was finally selected as a finalist for the 2010 Best Student Performer/Choreographer Award out of over 530 pieces submitted (pieces are choreographed by students, professional guest choreographers, and faculties and audited in a public setting anonymously), which is biannually sponsored by the Kennedy Center and Dance Magazine. The piece was invited to perform at a gala concert in the Kennedy Center and was produced numerously in different venues such as the Krannert Center for Performing Arts, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (the Charlotte Dance Festival), the Ford Amphitheater (commissioned by the Dream Dance Foundation in LA), and others.
Deuce takes its starting point from two related gestures: that of a ball being batted back and forth, and the sound of it bouncing to a stop on a hard surface. The former provides the rhythmic impetus for much of the piece, while the latter
generates the structure, in this way: initially, longer sections, each with a clearly defined sound world, alternate in gradually diminishing durations, until the disparate sounds intermingle in quick-fire juxtaposition, moving at last into a sustained finish (the ball bounces more and more quickly, then rolls away.
The sounds on the tape were largely derived from recordings of the instruments of Jane Chapman and Eleanor Dawson (harpsichord and baroque flute respectively.) These recordings were made in summer in non-sound proofed conditions and were thus liberally scattered with birdsong. Evelyn decided to make a virtue of this by using these ’extraneous’ sounds to develop the pitch material of the piece. She was greatly aided in this by a very insistent blackbird who sang outside her
window as she worked; he also found his way onto the tape.
Deuce was commissioned by Eleanor Dawson in 1992 with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain and received its premiere performance in Belfast in March, 1993.
Video-soul/soul(appx. 5 Min.)
Video by Young Sun Lee
Animation by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra
:The Hairy Square Snail lives in the screen shell where there is no space for others to come in. As this timid snail keeps going out and coming back to its own small shelter, it creates desires to be free of the shell and to be in contact with the illusive image of itself that it loves so much. A snail is mostly self-productive, and I was thinking of an image of Narcissus who loved itself so much, but sadly two separate identities could not meet. Narcissus is not a special person to be blamed as an ill figure as some psychologists perceive. I find he is the portrait of anyone’s adolescent ego. Many people die even before they get to see themselves and think of who they are. If anyone happened to see the image of self reflected to the calm pond, the one should be blessed for its starting point to lead one’s own life thereafter unless one does not confuse her/him with others.
Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond (appx. 5min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra: Fish Pond for Young Sun
:Lee is trying to talk about unachievable dream. However, life seems to be richer because of the unachievable dream and illusion, and they expand the boundary of life. A fish and a tree live in different spaces. One windy day, they happened to see and started to desire each other. Though the desire cannot come true unless one of them dies, the pond can make these two meet through the illusive reflection on the water surface. They look distorted and undulate as the wind disturbs the water. Also, the scene can be only observed by a mindless onlooker. So, it is a beautiful tragedy. Young-Sun’s body dances all these abstractions in honor of their desires. The piece was created into a poem and a fairy tale.
Interval: Time (appx. 3:30min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Clocks for Young Sun
Solitary Room Talks to Me (appx. 11min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Young Sun Mix
Fore by Takagi Masakatsu
Die Nacht ist kommen, BWV 296, Performed by Robert Carl
:The piece was made out of Lee’s solitude practice that leaves her alone in an empty room. Lee gathered the materials out of the practice and composed them in space following her mind’s logic. The mind’s logic is intuitive, unexpected, and unconscious, and pursues a different kind of communication against the narrative development of a story from beginning to an end. This is liken to the stream of consciousness in literature. The work links disparate spaces/scenes/movement elements with no plausibility as in a dream, but it somehow reveals self-contained meanings that cannot be verbally spoken or translated.
From <I am ‘His’ House> written by Young-Sun Lee
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I was born in this little house without a door.
I live with Him, who is splendid
……
I draw numerous doors every day.
I make a wish for those doors become a ‘door’.
Staff
Stage Manager: Hyun Park
Light Designer: Young-Koo Kang
Sound Operator: Sung-Won, Yang
Photography: Woo-Hee Kim
Coordinator/Video Recording: Jin Lee
*Ansan Arts Foundation
Promotion: Soo-Yong Kim
Stage Manager: Joo-Yong Hyun
Choreographic Intention
“Homemade & Organic are the two words that best represent my work process with movement and its quality. I prepared the works with numerous movement vocabularies out of my own body as a main object, which still looks strange and new though I live with it every day.” The performance consists of four movement solos and a video work; Snail III-Sexy Snail, Young-Sun Lee, Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond, Solitary Room Talks to Me, and Hairy Square Snail. The works are presented with short intervals between pieces, but they flow as if audiences were watching one full-length of work. Evelyn Ficarra and Kyja K-Nelson participated in the performance partially as a music and a video collaborator. The works feature pure abstract movement vocabularies with self-contained meanings, their unexpected compositional mix in space, and imaginative images derived out of this process as a whole.”
Collaboration with Evelyn Ficarra
Evelyn Ficarra has been collecting sounds since her early twenties, using them in her composition practice on an equal level with musical instrument and vocal sound sources, in a variety of musical and collaborative contexts. Since 2009 she has developed simple interfaces using the software program Max MSP with which she can improvise with these sounds, deploying them and manipulating them in real time performance situations. The pieces in this program are a mixture of
through-composed concert pieces from Ficarra's earlier repertoire (such as Deuce and vagues fenêtres); simple soundscapes with minimal processing (Rain for Young Sun and Waves for Young Sun); and pieces generated through
improvisation with the sounds (Clocks for Young Sun and Young Sun Mix, and also the sound track for the short film). All the pieces entitled 'sound scores' in this program were gathered together for Young Sun, specifically for this collaboration, in consultation with her. Young Sun Mix was improvised in the studio at the Djerassi resident artist program where they met.
Program
Opening: Waiting for Sexy Snail (appx. 20min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Rain for Young Sun
Snail III-Sexy Snail (appx. 7min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, excerpts from Vagues Fenêtres, for string trio and electronics, 2010
: It is the third piece in the Snail Series followed by Fast
Snail and Timid Snail, inspired by a yellow banana
slug and its sexual and flexible movement. Tyra Banks once said in a TV show
that sexiness is not a certain pose but a way to present oneself. I integrated
these conceptual and physical ideas of sexiness into a solo. Also, I tried to
contrast and abstract the violent environment and invisible threat placed
against this fragile object or feminine quality using musical elements and
limited space usage.
The electronic part from the original music, vagues / fenêtres (which translates as ‘waves / windows’) was used for this piece: “The electronic part is made entirely from string sounds, recorded during studio sessions with Victor Huguenin (violin), Nils Bultman (viola) and Ambre Tamagna (cello). (Evelyn Ficarra)”
Interval: Sexy Snail Goes to the Sea (appx. 5min.)
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra, Waves for Young Sun
:“On a rainy day in spring 2012, I saw rows of tiny snails that were crawling on the road by the San Antonio beach in California. I almost tramped on them. And we shared silent greetings and went our own ways.”
Young Sun Lee (appx. 5min.)
Music by Evelyn Ficarra, a 4:37 excerpt from Deuce (1993) for baroque flute, harpsichord and tape
: Young-Sun Lee is a self expressed in dance and Lee’s journey into the essence of dance. Lee learned that her physical characteristics could not be reconciled with the existing movement techniques such as ballet or modern techniques named as Merce or Martha. She took this difference as her strength and intended to create her own vocabulary that does not look like anyone’s style but her own. She dares to name her dance as Young-Sun Lee.
The piece was chosen to represent the dance dept. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for the 2010 American College Dance Festival (national) and was finally selected as a finalist for the 2010 Best Student Performer/Choreographer Award out of over 530 pieces submitted (pieces are choreographed by students, professional guest choreographers, and faculties and audited in a public setting anonymously), which is biannually sponsored by the Kennedy Center and Dance Magazine. The piece was invited to perform at a gala concert in the Kennedy Center and was produced numerously in different venues such as the Krannert Center for Performing Arts, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (the Charlotte Dance Festival), the Ford Amphitheater (commissioned by the Dream Dance Foundation in LA), and others.
Deuce takes its starting point from two related gestures: that of a ball being batted back and forth, and the sound of it bouncing to a stop on a hard surface. The former provides the rhythmic impetus for much of the piece, while the latter
generates the structure, in this way: initially, longer sections, each with a clearly defined sound world, alternate in gradually diminishing durations, until the disparate sounds intermingle in quick-fire juxtaposition, moving at last into a sustained finish (the ball bounces more and more quickly, then rolls away.
The sounds on the tape were largely derived from recordings of the instruments of Jane Chapman and Eleanor Dawson (harpsichord and baroque flute respectively.) These recordings were made in summer in non-sound proofed conditions and were thus liberally scattered with birdsong. Evelyn decided to make a virtue of this by using these ’extraneous’ sounds to develop the pitch material of the piece. She was greatly aided in this by a very insistent blackbird who sang outside her
window as she worked; he also found his way onto the tape.
Deuce was commissioned by Eleanor Dawson in 1992 with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain and received its premiere performance in Belfast in March, 1993.
Video-soul/soul(appx. 5 Min.)
Video by Young Sun Lee
Animation by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Sound Score by Evelyn Ficarra
:The Hairy Square Snail lives in the screen shell where there is no space for others to come in. As this timid snail keeps going out and coming back to its own small shelter, it creates desires to be free of the shell and to be in contact with the illusive image of itself that it loves so much. A snail is mostly self-productive, and I was thinking of an image of Narcissus who loved itself so much, but sadly two separate identities could not meet. Narcissus is not a special person to be blamed as an ill figure as some psychologists perceive. I find he is the portrait of anyone’s adolescent ego. Many people die even before they get to see themselves and think of who they are. If anyone happened to see the image of self reflected to the calm pond, the one should be blessed for its starting point to lead one’s own life thereafter unless one does not confuse her/him with others.
Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond (appx. 5min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra: Fish Pond for Young Sun
:Lee is trying to talk about unachievable dream. However, life seems to be richer because of the unachievable dream and illusion, and they expand the boundary of life. A fish and a tree live in different spaces. One windy day, they happened to see and started to desire each other. Though the desire cannot come true unless one of them dies, the pond can make these two meet through the illusive reflection on the water surface. They look distorted and undulate as the wind disturbs the water. Also, the scene can be only observed by a mindless onlooker. So, it is a beautiful tragedy. Young-Sun’s body dances all these abstractions in honor of their desires. The piece was created into a poem and a fairy tale.
Interval: Time (appx. 3:30min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Clocks for Young Sun
Solitary Room Talks to Me (appx. 11min.)
Sound score by Evelyn Ficarra, Young Sun Mix
Fore by Takagi Masakatsu
Die Nacht ist kommen, BWV 296, Performed by Robert Carl
:The piece was made out of Lee’s solitude practice that leaves her alone in an empty room. Lee gathered the materials out of the practice and composed them in space following her mind’s logic. The mind’s logic is intuitive, unexpected, and unconscious, and pursues a different kind of communication against the narrative development of a story from beginning to an end. This is liken to the stream of consciousness in literature. The work links disparate spaces/scenes/movement elements with no plausibility as in a dream, but it somehow reveals self-contained meanings that cannot be verbally spoken or translated.
From <I am ‘His’ House> written by Young-Sun Lee
……
I was born in this little house without a door.
I live with Him, who is splendid
……
I draw numerous doors every day.
I make a wish for those doors become a ‘door’.
Staff
Stage Manager: Hyun Park
Light Designer: Young-Koo Kang
Sound Operator: Sung-Won, Yang
Photography: Woo-Hee Kim
Coordinator/Video Recording: Jin Lee
*Ansan Arts Foundation
Promotion: Soo-Yong Kim
Stage Manager: Joo-Yong Hyun
Performance: Poetic Images Dancing on Piano Keys
Place: Dream Forest Arts Center, Concert Hall, Seoul
Near Miasamgeori St. Take No 5 Minibus to the entrance of the theater
Date: May 25, 2013 (Sat) 7:30pm
Production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Pianist: Sunhye Shim
070-8274-7894 for inquiries
Ticket Reservation: www.interpark.com Or at the theater
30% Off before May 15
<건반 위의 춤추는 시상>은 무용과 피아노가 만들어내는 시적인 상상을 무대공간에 구성한 것이다. 본 공연은 다국적 다원 예술단체인 원파운드초콜릿아트콜렉티브의 첫 번째 제작공연으로서, 예술감독/안무가 이영선과 피아니스트 심선혜가 출연하여 공연을 이끌어 갈 것이다. 또한 동시대 작곡가이자 단체의 협업 아티스트인 에블린 피카라, 잘 알려진 클래식 작곡가 드뷔시, 브람스의 피아노곡이 안무가의 창의적 상상력 안에서 새로이 해석될 것이다. 공연에서 내세우는 특징은 서로 구속하지 않으면서도 조화를 이루는 움직임과 음악의 소통방식, 안무자의 개성있는 움직임 어휘를 통해 표현되는 기묘한 상상력이다. 또한 창작과정에서 도출된 드로잉, 텍스트/시, 패턴 이미지 등을 영상물로 구성하여 공연의 일부로서 상연(프리젠테이션)할 것이다. 이로써 안무자의 창작과정이 스튜디오 리허설뿐만 아니라, 다원적인 접근에서 비롯된다는 것을 관객이 재미있게 이해하도록 할 것이다. 공연 후에는 관객과의 대화를 통해 공연의 이해를 돕도록 소통의 채널을 열고자 한다.
Choreographic Intention
The performance draws poetic imagination made of movement and piano music on stage. This is the first production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective, featuring Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer Young Sun Lee, Pianist Sunhye Shim, and Evelyn Ficarra's solo piano piece. During the performance, the piano music by Evelyn Ficarra, Brahms, and Debussy will be newly translated in Lee’s choreographic imagination. The performance will focus on Lee’s exquisite way to communicate between movement and music going beyond notes and movements and idiosyncratic imagination that her strong movement vocabulary brings to the space. Also, it will include a video projection of texts and images drawn from Lee’s choreographic process. At the end of the performance, audiences will have time to talk with the choreographer. The talk will partly model Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Step 1: Statements of Meaning; Step 2: Artist As Questioner; Step 3: Neutral Questions from Responders; Step 4: Permissioned Opinions
Program Contents
1. Title: Prelude-Opening of the Performance
Music: BRAHMS: op. 39 Waltzes #1-4
2. Title: Very Long Thread & a Bobcat
Music: DEBUSSY: Suite Bergamasque, L 75 – Passepied
3. Title: Caprice
Music: EVELYN FICARRA: The Arbitrariness of Language
4. Title: Chatterbox
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #1 – Mouvement
5. Title: Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #2 - Poissons D'Or
6. Title: Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
Music: DEBUSSY: Children's Corner, L 113 - Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
7. Title: Nun in Handstand
Music: DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 1, L 117 - La Cathédrale Engloutie
8. Video Epilogue---------------- Creative Fishing
9. Talk with Choreographer
Near Miasamgeori St. Take No 5 Minibus to the entrance of the theater
Date: May 25, 2013 (Sat) 7:30pm
Production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective
Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer: Young Sun Lee
Pianist: Sunhye Shim
070-8274-7894 for inquiries
Ticket Reservation: www.interpark.com Or at the theater
30% Off before May 15
<건반 위의 춤추는 시상>은 무용과 피아노가 만들어내는 시적인 상상을 무대공간에 구성한 것이다. 본 공연은 다국적 다원 예술단체인 원파운드초콜릿아트콜렉티브의 첫 번째 제작공연으로서, 예술감독/안무가 이영선과 피아니스트 심선혜가 출연하여 공연을 이끌어 갈 것이다. 또한 동시대 작곡가이자 단체의 협업 아티스트인 에블린 피카라, 잘 알려진 클래식 작곡가 드뷔시, 브람스의 피아노곡이 안무가의 창의적 상상력 안에서 새로이 해석될 것이다. 공연에서 내세우는 특징은 서로 구속하지 않으면서도 조화를 이루는 움직임과 음악의 소통방식, 안무자의 개성있는 움직임 어휘를 통해 표현되는 기묘한 상상력이다. 또한 창작과정에서 도출된 드로잉, 텍스트/시, 패턴 이미지 등을 영상물로 구성하여 공연의 일부로서 상연(프리젠테이션)할 것이다. 이로써 안무자의 창작과정이 스튜디오 리허설뿐만 아니라, 다원적인 접근에서 비롯된다는 것을 관객이 재미있게 이해하도록 할 것이다. 공연 후에는 관객과의 대화를 통해 공연의 이해를 돕도록 소통의 채널을 열고자 한다.
Choreographic Intention
The performance draws poetic imagination made of movement and piano music on stage. This is the first production by 1 Pound Chocolate Arts Collective, featuring Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performer Young Sun Lee, Pianist Sunhye Shim, and Evelyn Ficarra's solo piano piece. During the performance, the piano music by Evelyn Ficarra, Brahms, and Debussy will be newly translated in Lee’s choreographic imagination. The performance will focus on Lee’s exquisite way to communicate between movement and music going beyond notes and movements and idiosyncratic imagination that her strong movement vocabulary brings to the space. Also, it will include a video projection of texts and images drawn from Lee’s choreographic process. At the end of the performance, audiences will have time to talk with the choreographer. The talk will partly model Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Step 1: Statements of Meaning; Step 2: Artist As Questioner; Step 3: Neutral Questions from Responders; Step 4: Permissioned Opinions
Program Contents
1. Title: Prelude-Opening of the Performance
Music: BRAHMS: op. 39 Waltzes #1-4
2. Title: Very Long Thread & a Bobcat
Music: DEBUSSY: Suite Bergamasque, L 75 – Passepied
3. Title: Caprice
Music: EVELYN FICARRA: The Arbitrariness of Language
4. Title: Chatterbox
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #1 – Mouvement
5. Title: Fish on a Tree in a Little Pond
Music: DEBUSSY: Images #2 - Poissons D'Or
6. Title: Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
Music: DEBUSSY: Children's Corner, L 113 - Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum
7. Title: Nun in Handstand
Music: DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 1, L 117 - La Cathédrale Engloutie
8. Video Epilogue---------------- Creative Fishing
9. Talk with Choreographer
Performance with NI:SE Ensemble
I am performing two solos with Ni:Se Ensemble (Chamber Music) in their concert. I will be performing a new solo to Voice of Whale by George Crumb and reimagining my Snail piece to a newly composed music by A-Young Kim. Pls come to see the performance! Such a beautiful music!
May 13, 2013
7:30pm
Dance: Young Sun Lee (무용: 이영선)
May 13, 2013
7:30pm
Dance: Young Sun Lee (무용: 이영선)
Korea-UK Connection: Arts Exchange Programme 2012 (Nov 11-Dec 4)
Visit London, Edinburgh, Brighton, & Bristol (Placement in the Place in London and Dance Base in Edinburgh)
-To gain understanding of arts scene in the UK
-To identify opportunities, partneships, and arts exchanges
-To network with right people
-To share experiences and knowledge
-To see and discuss work with Music Collaborator, Evelyn
Supported by both British Art Council and Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS)
-To gain understanding of arts scene in the UK
-To identify opportunities, partneships, and arts exchanges
-To network with right people
-To share experiences and knowledge
-To see and discuss work with Music Collaborator, Evelyn
Supported by both British Art Council and Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS)
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA. USA
Mar 13-April 12, 2012
http://www.djerassi.org/index.html
2012 Artists
Sigrid Gilmer, Pasadena, CA. Playwright
Evelyn Ficarra, Oakland, CA. Composer
Adam Kalinowski, Poznan, Poland. Visual Artist
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Fargo, ND. Media Artist
Young Sun Lee, Cheonan-City, Korea. Choreographer
Nova Ren Suma, New York, NY. Writer
Martin Schmidt, Munich, Germany. Visual Artist
Joy Wood, Brooklyn, NY. Writer
Mar 13-April 12, 2012
http://www.djerassi.org/index.html
2012 Artists
Sigrid Gilmer, Pasadena, CA. Playwright
Evelyn Ficarra, Oakland, CA. Composer
Adam Kalinowski, Poznan, Poland. Visual Artist
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Fargo, ND. Media Artist
Young Sun Lee, Cheonan-City, Korea. Choreographer
Nova Ren Suma, New York, NY. Writer
Martin Schmidt, Munich, Germany. Visual Artist
Joy Wood, Brooklyn, NY. Writer
English Program Note of <Homemade & Organic>
Choreographic Intention
Some say that there is nothing new under the sun. However, if we look at the world from a slightly different angle, each person, each individual life, or a flower that blooms anew everyday is all new. Lee understands originality in art as innate individuality of living organisms that cannot be reproduced. “Young Sun Lee” refers not only to the artist herself, but also to her major artistic object, an attractive source of artistic creation, which has been already created perfect by god. This object does not look like any others and can think, create, and become an art work itself. Besides, it never gets boring since it keeps changing as it lives its own life. Lee’s dance cannot be separated from the artist, and thus cannot be lost and will die together as she dies. Her dance is her jewel that she has discovered inside her. She has refined this jewel and has made a dance that just looks like her but no one else.
Poster Image
The front image of the poster well represents her show. It uses a minimal color choice of black and her skin color tone. In this show, there is no fancy lighting effect, decorarative set design, or any pretentious movement element and costume design that hides her pure movement. The entire show mainly uses silence and minimal ambient sounds. Her dance is sef-contained that it actually doesn't need anything, like a well performed cello solo in a music concert hall. Her dance is a pure statement of who she is and the result of her tenacious search of essence in dance. The black color and the square mean a black box theater, and she is about to break out of her womb-like space to the world. Surely, every new work of art will be like a new born baby for most artists. The organic line of her body in the picture connotes the movement quality of her pieces. Looking at the picture closely, you will find another body of the artist overlapped from one another. Lee took the picture herself and the original title of the picture is Snail IV-Hairy Square Snail. Most snail species self produce, which means it has both male and female in one body. And it doesn't allow any others in its shell, but itself. Thus, her first solo collection may mean her invitation of the audience to her shell for the first time.
Inside the poster is the program that contains the work introductions, artist statement, creative process, biography, etc. Each can be found in the website.
Comment
The theater made a huge mistake to the artist that it forgot to tape the show. So, the website does not have a recording of the actual show but some rehearsal clips and the clips from the previous performance.
Some say that there is nothing new under the sun. However, if we look at the world from a slightly different angle, each person, each individual life, or a flower that blooms anew everyday is all new. Lee understands originality in art as innate individuality of living organisms that cannot be reproduced. “Young Sun Lee” refers not only to the artist herself, but also to her major artistic object, an attractive source of artistic creation, which has been already created perfect by god. This object does not look like any others and can think, create, and become an art work itself. Besides, it never gets boring since it keeps changing as it lives its own life. Lee’s dance cannot be separated from the artist, and thus cannot be lost and will die together as she dies. Her dance is her jewel that she has discovered inside her. She has refined this jewel and has made a dance that just looks like her but no one else.
Poster Image
The front image of the poster well represents her show. It uses a minimal color choice of black and her skin color tone. In this show, there is no fancy lighting effect, decorarative set design, or any pretentious movement element and costume design that hides her pure movement. The entire show mainly uses silence and minimal ambient sounds. Her dance is sef-contained that it actually doesn't need anything, like a well performed cello solo in a music concert hall. Her dance is a pure statement of who she is and the result of her tenacious search of essence in dance. The black color and the square mean a black box theater, and she is about to break out of her womb-like space to the world. Surely, every new work of art will be like a new born baby for most artists. The organic line of her body in the picture connotes the movement quality of her pieces. Looking at the picture closely, you will find another body of the artist overlapped from one another. Lee took the picture herself and the original title of the picture is Snail IV-Hairy Square Snail. Most snail species self produce, which means it has both male and female in one body. And it doesn't allow any others in its shell, but itself. Thus, her first solo collection may mean her invitation of the audience to her shell for the first time.
Inside the poster is the program that contains the work introductions, artist statement, creative process, biography, etc. Each can be found in the website.
Comment
The theater made a huge mistake to the artist that it forgot to tape the show. So, the website does not have a recording of the actual show but some rehearsal clips and the clips from the previous performance.
