Dean Moss and Sungmyung Chun: Nameless forest

Thursday-Saturday, May 19-21 and May 26-28, 8pm

Post-show talk-back discussion May 20th with Dean Moss and fellow collaborators

Choreographer and video artist Dean Moss’s latest project is part rite-of-passage, part meditation on the evolving processes of contemporary performance. Developed in collaboration with Korean sculptor Sungmyung Chun, the work is inspired by his emotionally fragile figurative installations. This world premiere features dancers Kacie Chang, Eric Conroe, Aaron Hodges, Pedro Jiménez, DJ McDonald and Sari Nordman and incorporates diary entries from photojournalist Mike Kamber, neon sculpture by visual artist Gandalf Gaván, an original score by Stephen Vitiello, costumes by Roxana Ramseur, and lighting and technical design by Vincent Vigilante. Nameless forest is a co-production of Gametophyte, Inc. and MAPP International Productions.

Commissioning partners for Nameless forest include: The Kitchen, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland. Developmental residencies have been generously provided by Arizona State University Public Events in partnership with the Herberger College of the Arts Department of Dance; the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at The Florida State University; and World Performance Project at Yale University.

Nameless forest has received generous support from The New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital; the National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The Asian Art Theater’s Project Development Initiative funded by The Office for Hub City of Asian Culture in the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The participation of Sungmyung Chun is made possible with support from Korea Foundation.
 
Dance programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. 

Photo: d moss

May 19–May 28, 2011

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