2008
Dance Without Bodies at HKW, Berlin, Germany
Date: August 23rd and 24th




2007
mech[a]OUTPUT

Japan Society continues its 2007-08 centennial celebration 
with the presentation of mech[a]OUTPUT.  This contemporary 
dance piece inspired by the classic noh play Dojoji is created by 
Bessie Award and Guggenheim Fellowship-winning experimental 
artist Koosil-Ja.  The production marks the fourth installment in 
the continuing program Noh?Now!, the Spring/Summer Japan 
Society performing arts series presenting an array of works 
inspired by the classical art of noh.  

mech[a]OUTPUT will play at Japan Society (333 East 47th Street) 
Thursday, May 31 
Friday, June 1
Saturday, June 2 
@ 7:30 PM. 

New York-based choreographer and new media artist Koosil-Ja 
presents a multimedia dance piece with a live 3-D game space, 
live Neo Punk Rock music, songs and video pendulum that 
modernizes elements of traditional music and choreography from 
the classic noh play Dojoji. Legends surrounding Dojo-ji Temple 
in Wakayama, located southeast of Osaka, have inspired numerous 
noh and kabuki plays about the vengeful spirit of a spurned woman. 
Koosil-ja transposes the work into her own aesthetic and political 
discourse between Original and Simulacrum (a thing itself), and 
Digital and Flesh. 



2006
Dance Without Bodies

The Kitchen presents Dance Without Bodies, a new, commissioned, 
dance and multi-media performance by choreographer Koosil-ja 
that questions the fundamental role of Presence in performance 
and forges new relationships among dancers, technologies, and 
the audience.  

In this new work, two dancers move between the space of the stage 
and that of video projections, performing simultaneous yet spatially
disconnected solos for an audience seated in two separate areas, 
situated back-to-back in the theater. Created through her Live 
Processing performance method, which she developed with dancer 
Melissa F. Guerrero  and Geoff Matters (music, video, and software 
design), the performance is different each night, as the movement 
in the work is neither strictly set choreography nor pure improvisation. 
Rather, the dancers generate their solos nightly, in real-time, in 
response to the action depicted on three different videos, which are 
randomly combined each evening on clustered sets of monitors. 
The piece also includes lighting design by Jane Shaw and video 
installation engineering by Benton Bainbridge.

Dance Without Bodies will be presented at Haus der Kulturen der 
Welt, Berlin Germany in August 2007.  



2005
deadmandancing HOTEL 2005
a new dance and mixed media project
by  
koosil-ja/ dance KUMIKOKIMOTO

deadmandancing HOTEL 2005 is a mixture of a performance of 
deadmandancing EXCESS which has been modified to fit a hotel room at
Sheraton New York Hotel and Tower and a discussion of the work to
promote it for touring.

Date: Saturday, January 8th, and Sunday, January 9th, 2005
       Performances: 10am, 1pm, 4 pm, 7pm, and 10pm
       Location:  Sheraton New York Hotel and Tower, 
		  811 Seventh Avenue at 52nd Street (212) 581-1000
       Room Number:  Please ask at the front desk for Koosil-ja Hwang’s room
       Reservation: (212) 375-0186 Recommended but NOT MANDATORY
       More Information: Call (212) 375-0186 or email dancekk@earthlink.net.

We have reserved a room to perform this event five times a day from
morning to night on January 8th and 9th.  In deadmandancing HOTEL 2005,
koosil-ja's performance persona as a solo dancer in a full costume and
director who describes the work are indistinct.  We will set up
monitors in the room and Geoff Matters and Tara Webb will perform the
video work using the source video sequence as a storyboard.  (The
source video sequence is created with a series of dying performances
collected from various films and sequenced by koosil-ja.  She dances
while watching the sequence, performing as many details as possible.)
Aki Sasamoto will assist koosil-ja with various props. koosil-ja will
perform the dance, and will at times also speak about the work during
the performance.  The performance will last about 50 minutes, and the
performers will be available to discuss the work afterwards.

koosil-ja received a New York Dance & Performance "BESSIE" Award for her
creation of deadmandancing EXCESS, mech[a], and OUTPUT.

2004
deadmandancing EXCESS (premiere)
a new dance and mixed media project
by  
koosil-ja 
with  
Geoff Matters (live video and sound)
Tara Webb (live video)
Liminal Projects, Omar Khan & Laura Garofalo (architecture)
Akiko Sasamoto (performer and assistant to director)

A premiere run of deadmandancing EXCESS was presented in association with 
Danspace Projects' Out Of Space series. 

Date: October 2004 
Location: Performikng Garage, NYC


deadmandancing EXCESS (work in progress)
Date: May 2004
Location: elan
88 Front Street 
Dumbo
New York

mech[a] OUTPUT (premiere)
A dance video installation
in collaboration with
Geoff Matters
Benton-C Bainbridge
Liminal Projects

Date: January 2004 

Location: elan
88 Front Street 
Dumbo
New York


funded by 
The Rockefeller Foundation MAP
The Japan Foundation
Philip Morris
National Endowment for the Arts

 


2003
mech[a] OUTPUT (work in progress)
A dance video installation
in collaboration with
Geoff Matters
Benton-C Bainbridge
Liminal Projects

Location: elan
88 Front Street 
Dumbo
New York
Date of Performance: 19 Nov - 21 Dec, Wednesday through Sunday

funded by 
The Rockefeller Foundation MAP
The Japan Foundation
Philip Morris
National Endowment for the Arts



2002
deadmandancing
A video installation in collaboration
with Benton Bainbridge
funded by Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council New Media
Commission

"Bit Size Room"
A dance for cable TV
funded by Manhattan Neighborhood
Network





2001
Thursday May 17 8:30pm

Whitney Museum of American Art
at Phillip Morris
RENDER 
(a work in progress)
120 Park Ave at 42nd Street
New York City





2000
March 21-26

92nd Y Harkeness Dance Center
"The Anatomy of Happiness"
(premiere)





1999
March 10-13

The Kitchen
New York City
memoryscan (premiere)

September 17-18

Asian Arts Initiative
with Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Philadelphia, PA
"memoryscan"

December 18-19

Miami Light Project
Miami, FL
memoryscan




   
1997
February 5

Martha at Mother, NYC
"a shadow of forgotten ancestors"
(work-in-progress)


March 17-23

Painted Bride Arts Center and 
Asian Arts Initiative, 
Philadelphia, PA
MASAO


April 28

Movement Research, NYC
a shadow of forgotten ancestors
(work-in-progress)


July 25

Central Park SummerStage, NYC
a shadow of forgotten ancestors
(work-in-progress)


August 24 - September 22

The Yard, Chilmark, MA
memory scan 
(work-in-progress)





1996
September 23-29

Danspace Project, NYC
MASAO

December 21
Context Studios, NYC
a shadow of forgotten ancestors
(work-in-progress)





1995
March 20

Movement Research 
@ Judson Church, NYC
excerpts


March 29 - April 2

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Incomplete disaster
- Solo Evening


April 25-30

Walker Arts Center 
Minneapolis, MN
Incomplete disaster
- Solo Evening


May 22-28

Theater Artaud 
San Francisco, CA
Incomplete disaster


June 12 - July 10

American Dance Festival
Durham, NC
MASAO


October 23-29

Washington Performing Arts Society 
Washington, DC
MASAO


November 10-12

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
MASAO