This year started with busy schedule.
After coming back from Berlin, I had a presentation at the National Arts Club in NYC. It was a great event for me to go back to see my youth to now. I filmed with my iPhone, so it’s not that great quality but if you are interested, please let me know!
And now in April, I am curating and directing NuVu Festival. We will present 5 artists. Exciting to see this concert is forming with works of Janis Brenner, Gabrielle Lamb, Michelle Thompson Ulerich, Mikaela Papasodero and Nai-Ni Chen.
Sadly Nai-Ni passed away December 2021. We want to honor her life. Nai-Ni and I came to NYC around the same time. We had very different path. We met about 10 years ago, probably crossed path a little here and there, and we started to know each other. She started CrossCurrent festival - Asian American Choreographer’s competition and she asked me to be on the panel. During pandemic, she started to give free classes online, she made many project so that keep giving her dancers chance to keep going. She is not a flashy person but concrete.
NuVu Festival is a place for different stages of dance artists to share a stage together. For young artists, they can learn by watching how mature artists deal with stage crew, how they work with their dancers. And for mature artists, they get to see young artists' vision.
I want this festival to be a great place for every artists and for the audience to encounter different stages of artists' work and inspired.
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The Hartt School where Stephen and I teach, will have Hartt Dances. Dancers will dance Bounonville, Jose Limon and new works by Steven Melendez, and Pascal Rioult’s work DRIFT with LIVE Chamber Music. It is exciting to see Live music and dance come together. It will be streamed so PLEASE WATCH!!!
After this concert, dancers who danced Martha Graham’s Primitive Mysteries last Hartt Dances, will be coming to NYC to participate during Graham Company’s season at the Joyce Theatre, Saturday Matinee for University Partnership Showcase on April 22nd. They will be dancing 3rdsection called “Hosanna”. They were lucky, had a chance to work with Susan Kikuchi. It was a beautiful rehearsal that they had.
And one more – I will be working with Theatre director Anne Boagart. The work by Elizabeth Swedos, The Beautiful Lady will be premiering at the La MaMa theater in NYC on May 2nd. I will let you all know later.
So those of you in NYC, Please join me at the NuVu Festival to honor Nai-Ni, and enjoy 5 artists' work!
Love to see you there!!!
Happy Spring!!!
Miki |
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