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Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director: info@whitewavedance.com, (718) 855-8822 WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company will premiere Here NOW Museum of Arts and Design: 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019 November 4th & 5th, 2011, performances at 7:00pm $25 general / $15 members and students; available at http://www.madmuseum.org/events/here-now or 1-800-838-3006

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WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company

Here NOW (World Premiere)

Architectural Design of the Human Heart
A piece by Young Soon Kim in collaboration with the performers

WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company will present the World Premiere of Kims Here NOW: Architectural Design of the Human Heart, on November 4th and 5th at 7pm as part of the Performance Series of The Museum of Art and Design (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan). Exploring the turbulence of human emotions, Here NOW will weave together panoramic video images, a live performance of an original composition for guitars and electronics, and the fluid dramatic movement of WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company. The piece will feature a new score by Marco Cappelli, with visuals by filmmaker and set designer Anna Kiraly, dramaturgy by James Leverett, and performances by Kims splendid 11-member ensemble. Kims work is hailed as visually stunning and emotionally rich. 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. Choreographed & Directed by Young Soon Kim Original Music Composed & Performed by Marco Cappelli Film & Set design by Anna Kiraly 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.
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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/D'Amour 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.

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ABOUT WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company: Consisting of 11 extraordinary dancers, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is committed to the creation of a union between the natural rhythm of the planet and the primal essence of the human spirit. 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. Over the last decade, WHITE WAVEs Artistic Director Young Soon Kim has gained eminence as one of New Yorks leading dance curators as producer of three annual festivals (DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, WAVE RISING SERIES and Cool New York DANCE Festival) at WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater; for all of these productions, WHITE WAVE presents new work and/or repertory by Kim. WHITE WAVEs wide press coverage over the years has included interviews on CNNs International Inside Asia program and features for WWOR-TV Channel 9s 10 Oclock News and Fox 5 TVs Good Day New York. Starting in 2007 with landmark performances at DTWs Bessie Schnberg Theater, Kim developed a sequence of innovative works that integrated contemporary dance and aerial choreography. Her novel choreographic method was described in the press by journalist Robert Kruse: Young Soon began by visualizing the choreography and working with dancers and aerial artists to make a reality out of it. Through the use of harnesses and suspended loops of fabric, Young Soon choreographs without a bottom. This is unlike the circus style aerobatics you may be used to seeingWhat makes it unique is Young Soons unification of her style with the aerial device. Her work is more of an abstract expressionist dance gliding through the air. This is also incorporated with her planet earth-based choreography. Kim's SSOOT Series (2007-10) was chronicled annually in stunning productions at WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater. In August, 2010, the company presented an evening-length program at Steppingstone Waterside Theater (Great Neck, NY), including the world premiere of Shanghai Dream, set to a composition by the Chinese virtuoso pianist Tian, featuring live accompaniment by the composer. For the 2010 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL, in celebration of WHITE WAVEs first decade as a performing arts presenter, Kims company premiered four sections of So Long for Now (2010-11), including the first full-scale dance production ever staged at Brooklyns historic Fulton Ferry Landing. Kim further developed the work in performances at the 2010 WAVE RISING SERIES and the Cool New York 2011 DANCE Festival. The Grand Finale of the 2011 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL featured the premiere of the completed So Long for Now, including the pieces new Finale section. WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company receives support from 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, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, and the John Ryan Company.