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Kisaeng becomes you (2008-09)
A collaboration with Korean modern and traditional dance choreographer Yoon Jin Kim. The work explores contemporary parallels found in the poems and lives of Korea's artist/courtesans of the Joseon Dynasty called Kisaeng. Complete performance: (here). Memoirs of a Kisaeng (here)

Nameless forest (2011)
A performance in collaboration with Korean sculptor and poet, Sungmyung Chun. The work explores subjectivity and the nature of perception by both translating Chun’s installations into live action, and questioning the act of translation itself. Online book (here). Complete performance: (here)

States & Resemblance (2007)
A collaboration with photographer, actor, Ryutaro Mishima and Indonesian Traditional Dance artist, Restu Kusumaningrum. A meditation on how things, people and experience pass away: how it is painful and beautiful and inevitable.

figures on a field (2005)
A collaboration with visual artist Laylah Ali. The work questions patterns of cultural consumption through the “staging” of Ali’s provocative “Greenhead” paintings and the museum environment in which they are exhibited. Extended excerpt: (here)

Form & Practice (2002-ongoing)
An experimental dance composition workshop, offers the makers of contemporary performance an alternative way to perceive what they do. Consisting of strategies both physical and intellectual the workshop attempts to separate the dance artist from the art work.

american deluxe (2001)
A project exploring my relationship to violence in a large sense - socio-political, aesthetic and the theological - their infinite reflections, the mesmerizing beauty of their articulation.

Spooky action at a distance (1999)
A meditation blending the Astair/Rogers film, “Swing Time” and quantum mechanics. As such it was about bodies and falling and loss and sex and science; about simultaneity and something vaguely sinister....

supplement (2002)
A project exploring the seepage between the body and the environment. A search for epiphany at the hands of a rolfer, the work looked for the connective tissue in a world of dissolution and asked: “are you ok?”

PROJECTS

I like science: biology, philosophy, quantum mechanics, stuff like that. I‘m not so good socially. I like sex, but people are an acquired taste. I’m aging and think of mortality, of loss. Concepts interest me. Imagery interests me. Activities of falling involve me. I like doing. I like to do all, all at once. It’s unconscious and confusing. I make mistakes.

I panic. There’s a fair amount of pain, physical and otherwise, and bliss...

johnbrown (2014)
A new performance collaboration with the acclaimed painter Laylah Ali. The work meditates on the life, times, and legacy of the 19th century white abolitionist whose acts of radical compassion foreshadowed the Civil War.

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