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Lenora Lee's "Passages: For Lee Ping To" at John Ryan Theater

November 5, 2010 at 7:30pm to November 7, 2010 at 9:30pm
Please Join Us for the New York Performances ofLenora Lee's "Passages: For Lee Ping To" (excerpts)as part of White Wave's Wave Rising SeriesFriday & Sunday, November 5th & 7th, 7:30pmSaturday, November 6th, 4pmJohn Ryan Theater25 Jay Street, Suite #100, Brooklyn, NY718-855-8822, http://www.whitewavedance.comThe performances will feature excerpts from an interdisciplinary work by choreographer/dancer Lenora Lee in collaboration with media…See More
Nov 2, 2010
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Lenora Lee's "Passages: For Lee Ping To"

November 5 - 7, 2010 as part of White Wave's Wave Rising Serieswww.whitewavedance.comThe performances will feature excerpts from an interdisciplinary work by choreographer/dancer Lenora Lee in…
Nov 2, 2010
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Lenora Lee's "Passages: For Lee Ping To" at John Ryan Theater

November 5, 2010 at 7:30pm to November 7, 2010 at 9:30pm
Please Join Us for the New York Performances ofLenora Lee's "Passages: For Lee Ping To" (excerpts)as part of White Wave's Wave Rising SeriesFriday & Sunday, November 5th & 7th, 7:30pmSaturday, November 6th, 4pmJohn Ryan Theater25 Jay Street, Suite #100, Brooklyn, NY718-855-8822, http://www.whitewavedance.comThe performances will feature excerpts from an interdisciplinary work by choreographer/dancer Lenora Lee in collaboration with media…See More
Nov 1, 2010
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Lenora Lee's "Passages: For Lee Ping To" at John Ryan Theater

November 5, 2010 at 7:30pm to November 7, 2010 at 9:30pm
Please Join Us for the New York Performances ofLenora Lee's "Passages: For Lee Ping To" (excerpts)as part of White Wave's Wave Rising SeriesFriday & Sunday, November 5th & 7th, 7:30pmSaturday, November 6th, 4pmJohn Ryan Theater25 Jay Street, Suite #100, Brooklyn, NY718-855-8822, http://www.whitewavedance.comThe performances will feature excerpts from an interdisciplinary work by choreographer/dancer Lenora Lee in collaboration with media…See More
Oct 30, 2010
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Status
Artist
Discipline(s)
Dance, Film & Video
Your Artistic Background/Mission
Lenora Lee (choreographer / dancer) is a native San Franciscan and has been creating and performing work since 1998. For the last 12 years she has been an integral part of the San Francisco and New York Asian American contemporary dance and creative music communities, as choreographer, dancer, and Managing Director of Asian American Dance Performances, as dancer and taiko artist with Gen Taiko, as Co-Artistic Director for the Red Jade Collective, as artist-in-residence at the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California, the Chinatown Beacon Center, and in the SFUSD, as Co-Artistic Director of Lee & Wang Dance, and most recently as Project Manager for Asian Improv aRts. Lenora has directed, choreographed, and produced her own works performing nationally and internationally. Her projects have been sponsored by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC), Mulberry Street Theater’s Ear to the Ground commissioning with generous support from the Jerome Foundation, CA$H, a grants program administered by Theatre Bay Area in partnership with Dancers’ Group, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Performing Arts Assistance Program, Lighting Artist in Dance Award, a program of Dancers’ Group, Asian Improv aRts, Footloose Presents AIM: Artists in Motion, and by Generous Individuals.
Your Creative Influences
“Japanese drumming (taiko), tai chi, gung fu and karate, forms I have or currently study, bring me to tradition and to cultures I have a great affinity toward and ancestral roots in. What becomes woven into the fabric of my dance is the body’s understanding, in the muscle memory, of what it is to be in confrontation, defense, as well as in harmony, with fiery velocity. Moreover, the dance is informed by the body’s understanding of what it is to be the driving heartbeat of song and community spirit. My movement vocabulary is also influenced by what are distinctly American art forms: modern dance, American Sign Language, contact improvisation, and jazz music. It is within the detailed narrative gesture of the hands colliding and collaborating with the striking physicality and partnering within contact improvisation vocabulary, where a dynamic visceral language develops, one that is reflective of intimate connection and storytelling. In addition to pursuing the creation of choreography and collaboration with musicians/composers, I have been pursuing the integration of forms such as video projection, large scale visual art, even public art, in informing the synthesis of my work, as well as in providing the frame for the exploration of key themes in my body of work. These themes include the questions: What is my role within the lineage of my family history? How do our experiences within the Chinese Diaspora interweave to manifest a collective narrative? What place does this narrative have in the forming of community within our increasingly complex global trans-cultural and dynamic social ecology?” – Lenora Lee
If you are not in New York City, what are your ties to New York's Asian American artistic community?
My work is created/shown/produced in NYC regularly
Web Link
http://www.LenoraLeeDance.com

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