I am Assistant Directing DICTEE: bells fall a peal to sky at The Culture Project's 2012 Women Center Stage Festival!

Conceived, performed by Soomi Kim
Directed by Suzi Takahashi

Adapted from the groundbreaking literary collage by late Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, DICTEE intertwines the stories of ordinary, mythic, and martyred women—including Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc..., Demeter and Persephone, as well as Cha herself. Korean born, NYC-based performer Soomi
Kim uses movement, video, and original music to transpose Cha’s postmodern
poetry to the stage.

Featuring Kiyoko Kashiwagi and Diana Oh
Music by Jen Shyu
Lighting design by Lucrecia Briceno
Video by Eric Jiaju Lee
 AD/SM Leta Tremblay

Tuesday, March 20 and Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 24 at 3pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, March 25 at 3pm

The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street
(between E. Houston and Stanton)
New York, NY 10002
 
Tickets $18
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/907485

Dictee: bells fall a peal to sky is based on the book "Dictee", by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, copyright The Regents of the University of California, courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
 

I am the Assistant Director for Soomi Kim's DICTEE which will be part of the 3rd National Asian American Theater Festival and Conference in Los Angeles, CA.

DICTEE, a new work, is a multi-media dance theater performance based on the text of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal literary collage. Through interchangeable disciplines of spoken text, movement, music, experimental sound and video, performing artists Soomi Kim and Jen Shyu share the stories of brave women who are ordinary, revolutionary, and extraordinary in their common experiences of suffering and transcendence of suffering. Meet the artists in the Teaser Video HERE.

If you are in Los Angeles, please come!
Inner-City Arts
720 Kohler St.
Los Angeles, CA

The performance dates are:
Friday June 24th 9pm
Sunday June 26th 2pm
Tickets $15

to purchase tickets go to:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/167422

Credits:
Performed and conceived by Soomi Kim (www.soomikim.com)
in collaboration with Jen Shyu (composer/musician/performer www.jenshyu.com) and director Suzi Takahashi. Featuring actor Elena Chang.
Assistant director: Leta Tremblay
Video projections: Chris McClain

Photo credit: Kenny Wong