နယူးေယာက္က ေဟတီအတြက္ လႈပ္ရွားမည့္သတင္း

(အဓိပဓိၾကီး ေပးပို႕သည္)

"Dear Haiti, . Yours,"

An evening of Butoh, Avant-garde dance, Poetry and Visual art benefiting relief efforts in Haiti

Brooklyn, NY February 19, 2010 - "Dear Haiti, Yours," is an evening of Butoh, avant-garde dance, music, poetry, and visual art benefiting relief efforts in Haiti. The event will take place on Saturday, March 6th at 8pm at the Center for Performance Research (CPR) in Brooklyn, located at 361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1 Brooklyn, NY 11211. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door. All proceeds will go to Partners in Health .

Internationally-recognized and award-winning musician Bora Yoon will conclude the evening's showcase. Other acts include Vangeline, Artistic Director of the New York-based Vangeline Theater, including Butoh and avant-garde dance performances by Melisa Lohman , Irem Calikusu, Ye Taik and Kim Burgas . Visual artist Nino Trentinella and a reading by Amy Bonnaffons of a Aung Way poem will kick off the night.
Curator / Organizer: Ye Taik

yetaik@hotmail.com



Co-Curator / Co-Organizer: Kim Burgas

burgaska@gmail.com

Link
http://burgaska.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/dear-haiti-yours-artist-bios/


Bora Yoon

Bora Yoon is an experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from found objects, chamber instruments, digital devices, and voice. Featured in WIRE magazine and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal for her musical innovations�Yoon has presented her original soundwork ( (( PHONATION )) ) internationally, at Lincoln Center, the Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Bang on a Can Marathon, BAM, and John Zorn's Stone. Her music has been presented by Samsung and the Electronic Music Foundation; commissioned by the Young People's Chorus Chorus of NYC and SAYAKA Ladies Chorale of Tokyo; awarded by Billboard, BMI, and Arion Foundation; and published by Swirl Records, MIT Press, and the Journal of Popular Noise. Upcoming plans include scoring and performing the multimedia stage adaption to Haruki Murakami's "Wind Up Bird Chronicle"; custom instrument design and performance with LEMUR; recording and remix projects with DJ Spooky, Meredith Monk, and early music group New York Polyphony; and a wax cylinder record for UK phonograph artist Aleks Kolkowski's museum collection� while ( (( PHONATION )) ) continues to resonate and rarefact in concert. www.borayoon.com



Irem Calikusu



Irem's life as a dancer started in Istanbul, at the Theater Research Lab with Mustafa Kaplan. Being deeply moved by a Butoh performance she saw in Istanbul, she went on to complete a Master's thesis on Butoh and post war politics in Japan at the Anthropology Department of UMass, Amherst. She has studied Butoh with Min Tanaka, Akira Kasai, and Ko Murobushi, Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Modern Dance at the Cunningham School for Dance. She has danced with Ko Murobushi, Takuya Muramatsu, Mari Osanai and Leimay. She has shown work in various venues in Istanbul and New York including Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place, NY Butoh Festival, the CAVE, Construction Company, Cunningham Studio and CATI Dance Studio. http://www.iremcalikusu.com/



Nino Trentinella

Nino Trentinella was born in 1979 in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia and now lives and works in USA.Nino earned her Bachelor of Art degree in Animation and Photography in 2001; and her Master of Fine Art in Imaging and Digital Arts (Film & Photography emphasis) from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2005. Some of the awards Nino received include: Presidential Scholars Program Teacher Recognition Award (2008), Carver Foundation Grant (2008), GSA Research Grant (2002-2005), Soho Photo Gallery's National Competition Winner Award (2001, 2002), Jeanie Druck Riebling Memorial Scholarship, (1998), Victoria & Albert Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art: "A Grand Design" Competition Grand Prize (1998).Nino's artwork is based on narrative storytelling and personal narratives. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan.



Vangeline

Vangeline is a butoh dancer from France and the Artistic director of the Vangeline Theater, a New York dance company firmly based in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century.
www.vangeline.com
Photograph is by Yi Chun Wu




Ye Taik



Ye Taik is a brooklyn-based performing artist, avant garde and Butoh dancer , who was born in Rangoon , Burma.He went to the University of Computer Studies and Law School, Rangoon from which he graduated both in 2003 with a B.C Technology degree and in 2006 with a honor of Law degree respectively. Since his move to New York as an independent artist ,he began his avant-garde Butoh dance training under the direction of Vangeline , Ko Murobushi and Degio Pinon.He has had a pleasure of working with Vangeline Theater ( www.vangeline.com ), The Internationalists (www.theinternationalists.org ),NO-where NOW-here( www.theinternationalists.org/nowhere ) ,Performa09 (www.performa-arts.org ) and performed various art spaces and public area inculded United Nation Plaza in New York .Recently he choreographed his avant-garde dance solo in the dance and theater festival of "Around the world in 24 hours " , New York.He recently finished his showcase of wax works program on 17 of januart 2010 in triskelion. He loves to collaboration with others.




Melissa Lohman


Melissa Lohman is a dancer/performer based in N.Y.C.Butoh in various forms,is at the core of her training. She is currently focusing on her solo work,and collaborating with jazz and avant-guarde musicians.Most recently,she danced at Douglass Street Music Collective with renowned jazz musicians Rob Garcia (drums) and Michel Gentile (flute).Melissa is also in ongoing collaboration with Butoh master Katsura Kan.



Aung Way


date of birth - July 23 , 1954
place of birth - Burma (Myanmar)

1982 - became poet

1976-78, 1988, 1989-91 - three times in prison

2007 - left for Thailand

2008 - arrived in America




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