Cynthia has been awarded an Artists’ Resource for Completion (ARC) grant and a 2012 Santa Monica Individual Artist Fellowship to create new work intersecting video technology and Indian dance! Check out Nirmala Nataraj's recent article on the Post Natyam Collective for American Theatre Magazine here.
upcoming events.
Los Angeles, CA. 14-17 March 2013. Cynthia performs “Super Ruwaxi: Origins” with Shyamala Moorty at East West Players’ EVOKE Festival.
Super Ruwaxi: Origins is the origin story of how Wu Ruwaxi, a nerdy Chinese-American teenager, becomes Super Ruwaxi, a feminist super-heroine with magical gender-bending body odor. The EVOKE Festival nurtures artists and new performance works that expand the dialogue about the Asian Pacific American experiences. This edition of EVOKE brings to life the vivid reality and imaginations of South Asian American artists, including Jas and Kamaljeet Ahluwalia, Shilpa Agarwal, Snehal Desai, Sheetal Gandhi, Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty, Puja Mohindra, Ami Patel, and SaiQa (Saba Waheed).
Thursday,
March 14 - Saturday, March 16 at 8pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2pm
General Admission: $10
http://www.eastwestplayers.org/special_events/evoke.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/126647667515840/
Chicago, IL. 5-7 April 2013. Cynthia performs What’s your Stereotype? with Shyamala Moorty at the Braiding Rivers Festival.
Created and performed by Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty of the Post Natyam Collective, What's Your Stereotype? parodies and personalizes received gender and cultural roles in a thought-provoking mixture of contemporary Indian dance, theater, multimedia, and audience interaction. The evening will also feature a film by Chicago's Silk Road Rising. The Braiding Rivers Festival of Contemporary Indian Dance and Theatre is a three weekend concert series showcasing work that navitages identities overlooked in traditional presentations of classical Indian dance, shedding light on regional and national artists engaging with Indian dance in relation to history, sociocultural identity, and postcolonial/diasporic perspectives. Just as malleable water sources can "braid" together to form unique river systems, so has Indian dance braided its classical forms with ever-evolving ideas reflecting our contemporary world.
Links Hall
Fri and Sat at 8 pm/Sun at 7 pm
Salzburg, Austria. 11-12 April 2013: Cynthia performs and teaches for Rapture and Rupture: Love and Emotion in Contemporary Dance at Universität Salzburg with Sandra Chatterjee.
Cynthia performs “Counting the Moons,” co-choreographed with Anusha Kedhar and performed with Sandra Chatterjee, and “rapture/rupture,” a solo directed by Shyamala Moorty, at Rapture/Rupture. Combining lecture-demonstration, performance, workshop, and discussion, Rapture/Rupture takes a translation of the Indian classical tradition of abhinaya (a complex form of acting used in classical Indian dance, whereby the dancer interprets love poetry using gesture and facial expression in a rich integration of dance, drama, music, and literature) for a queer, postcolonial, and activist space as its starting point. Expanding from this very culturally specific basis, the goal will be to reflect on the role of emotion in contemporary dance more generally, engaging specifically dance in Europe and the US. In particular we plan to think about the reception of the sensual and emotional qualities of Indian dance in the context of works by well known choreographers, such as Maurice Bejart, Pina Bausch, Chandralekha, Padmini Chettur, and Raimund Hoghe. In addition we will actively and practically explore current choreographic approaches to love and emotion and their potential for contemporary dance. The work and artistic research discussed here decentralizes western modern dance tradition from its dominant position in the "contemporary" Euro-American dance world, instead re-envisioning "contemporary" as the creative reframing of non-western tradition through current political issues of gender, sexuality, and race.
Participants: Nayana Bhat (Salzburg, Sead), Georg Lechner (München), Cynthia Ling Lee (Los Angeles), Claudia Jeschke (Universität Salzburg), Anna Wieczoreck (Universität Salzburg), Sandra Chatterjee (Universität Salzburg).
Organisation: Sandra Chatterjee, Claudia Jeschke
Tanzstudio (Raum Nummer 2.105), Universität Salzburg, Unipark Nonntal
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg
https://www.facebook.com/events/314571372002864/
Munich, Germany. 14 April 2013. Cynthia performs at Integrier-Bar 10 with Sandra Chatterjee.
Cynthia performs “Super Ruwaxi: Origins” and “Ranri (widow/courtesan” with Sandra Chatterjee at Integrier-Bar 10: Fem-migrant Super-heroines: Weibliche Partizipation in der politischen Kultur der Dominanzgesellschaft. Vier Frauen (jede mit sogenanntem “Migrationshintergrund”) unterhalten sich in der Integrier-BAR 10 über verschiedene Formen der politischen Teilhabe: von parteipolitischem Engagement, über politische Intervention durch Performance und Kunst.
Santa Monica, CA. 22 April 2013. Cynthia gives an artist talk for the Santa Monica Artist Fellowship.
Join lifelong Santa Monica resident and internationally celebrated assemblage
artist Michael McMillen, award-winning artist luminaries Eileen Cowin, John
Humble and David MacDonald and web-based, intercultural and multidisciplinary
choreographer Cynthia Ling Lee, as they show images and video of recent work and
open a dialogue with City residents in the fourth annual Santa Monica Artist
Fellowship Talk.
The unique Santa Monica Artist Fellowship, unlike any other City-based arts
program in the U.S., offers five fellowships annually to individual artists to
create new work and advance the City’s public discourse about art and ideas.
Instituted in 2010, the program acknowledges our community’s regard for
creativity and innovation and recognizes the excellence of Santa Monica-based
artists. Each year the Fellows present their work in a public forum for
discussion, followed by a lively Q & A with the audience moderated by Cultural
Affairs Administrator Nathan Birnbaum.
22 April 2013, 6:30 pm
Annenberg Beach House
415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402
https://www.facebook.com/events/505872442806735/?ref=2
Los Angeles, CA. 9 May 2013. Cynthia performs for Ravindra Deo and Friends at the Fowler Out Loud Series.
Cynthia performs a classical kathak tarana, choreographed to Ravindra Deo’s original music with live accompaniment by Dr. Seema Hanamsagar (vocalist), Kamaljeet Ahluwalia (santoor), Rupesh Kotecha (harmonium), and Ravindra Deo (tabla). The evening features Ravindra’s original Hindustani compositions, including a solo concert on the tabla and special guest appearances throughout the evening.
UCLA Fowler Museum
9 May 2013, 7 pm
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/fowler-out-loud-ravindra-deo-and-friends
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recent events.
Venice, CA. 5 January 2013. Cynthia performs “Remember Surrender” with Carol McDowell at the iDFest.
The Los Angeles Improvisational Dance Festival is an exploration and celebration of improvisational movement styles and alternative dance techniques, featuring contact improvisation, ensemble movement, and the performance integration of body, sound, voice and object. The festival features an exciting line-up of international and LA-based improvisers, including Simone Forti, Shel Wagner Rasch, Jones Welsh, Stephanie Nugent, and Carmela Hermann.
The Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Avenue
Jan 5, 2013, 8:30 pm
http://www.joneswelsh.com/idfest
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7-17 November 2012. Cynthia participates in WORK IT!, a creative think-tank on gender issues in contemporary dance.
WORK IT!, co-organized by Anna Wagner, Rimbun Dahan, and NPO Dance Box, brings 10 female choreographers and body-based performance artists together for a two-week residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia. This creative think tank brings together European and Asian artists to address the construction of the gendered body in arts performance and the status of women in the performing arts industry.
Info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/203551513101279/
Singapore. 18-19 October 2012. Cynthia performs in CREATIONS 2012: Another Face in the Crowd at Substation Theatre.
CREATIONS is Maya Dance Theatre’s platform for choreographers to create new, innovative works for presentation. Cynthia will perform her signature solo, ruddha (rude, huh?) as well as a new duet with Shahrin Johry as part of CREATIONS. Other artists include Max Chen (Singapore) and Shahrin Johry (Singapore)
18 & 19 October 2012, 8pm
The Substation Theatre, 45 Armenian Street Singapore 179936
SGD 25 (Adults) & SGD 20 (Concession)
Tickets available from The Substation Box Office
(boxoffice@substation.org or contact +65 6337 7800)
Info: http://www.mayadancetheatre.org/index.php?page=prod_current_db
Singapore. 8-26 October 2012. Maya Dance Theatre commissions Cynthia to create two new dance-works.
Maya Dance Theatre is committed to developing Asian contemporary dance vocabulary: they create artistic productions that transcend cultural, ethnic, and national boundaries, encouraging collaborations and reflecting a synergy of traditional and contemporary dimensions in their work. During her two week residency, Cynthia will create two new dance works on Maya Dance Theatre company members: a duet with Shahrin Johry and herself, and a quartet on company members.
Singapore. 20 September-4 October 2012. Cynthia teaches improvisation workshops at various organizations in Singapore.
Cynthia will teach a variety of dance workshops, including contact improvisation and text-movement improvisation, at Singapore Drama Educators Association, Frontier Danceland, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and Kent Ridge Secondary School.
Ojai, USA. 24-28 September 2012. Cynthia is an Anacapa Scholar in residence at her alma mater, the Thacher School.
Ojai, USA. 28 September 2012. Cynthia and Shyamala perform What’s Your Stereotype?, an evening of contemporary Indian dance at the Thacher School.
Grappling, challenging, and blowing apart cultural stereotypes, this evening of interdisciplinary performance rewrites Indian dance tradition with humor, craft, and a critical edge. Created and performed by Cynthia Ling Lee (CdeP ‘98) and Shyamala Moorty of the Post Natyam Collective, What’s Your Stereotype? parodies and personalizes received gender and cultural roles in a thought-provoking mixture of contemporary Indian dance, theater, multimedia, and audience interaction.
FREE ADMISSION
7:30 pm
Milligan Center for the Performing Arts
The Thacher School
5025 Thacher Road Ojai, CA 93023
www.thacher.org
805-646-4377
Los Angeles, USA. 6-24 August 2012. UCLA Hothouse Residency as part of the Desijam Collective.
The eighth annual Hothouse Residency gives six Los Angeles-based choreographers and/or body based performance artists creative residency time and opportunities for exchange. The residency culminates in an all day showing of new works by Hothouse artists. The Desijam Collective, which includes contemporary South Asian choreographers Sheetal Gandhi, Anusha Kedhar, Cynthia Ling Lee, Shyamala Moorty, Ulka Mohanty, Meena Murugesan, with video work by Sangita Shresthova, will share their new in-progress, collaborative dance-works as part of this showing.
All Day (exact schedule TBD)
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall
Santa Monica, USA. 10 August 2012. Subversive Gestures premieres at Highways Performance Space.
Post Natyam Collective members Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty present Subversive Gestures, an evening of interdisciplinary performance that queers Indian dance, where gender-bending super-heroines, deconstructed mudras, and lesbian fantasies of courtesan-ancestors descend upon Highways’ unsuspecting audience. Using queer tactics of parodying and personalizing received legacies of gendered performance, this compelling mixture of contemporary Indian dance, multimedia, and theater features special invited guests and audience interaction. Subversive Gestures is part of Highways’ annual summer Queer Performance Festival - BEHOLD!, which takes place July-August 2012.
August 10, 2012, 8:30 pm
(310) 315-1459
http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/442249312463527/
Taipei, Taiwan. 24-25 July 2012. Keynote address at “The Stage: the Dance Technology International Mini-Conference.”
Cynthia Ling Lee and Sandra Chatterjee give an extended keynote address entitled “Blogging Choreography: Post Natyam Collective’s Long Distance Collaborations,” as well as participating in roundtable discussion. In our keynote, we ask the question: how do Web 2.0 technologies, social networking tools, and DIY media production redefine the possibilities of choreography? We look at how internet tools open up possibilities for cross-border collaboration and artistic coalition while also reconfiguring the nature of choreographic process and product. Our presentation unveils Post Natyam’s web-based creative process and shares video of our interdisciplinary art-works, which exist at the intersection of live and digital performing bodies.
This international mini-conference on dancing within and beyond technology also features presentations by interdisciplinary artist Renata Sheppard (Torino, Italy) and of Taiwanese dance artists and technologists, Hsiu-ping Chang (Sun-Shier Dance Theatre), Ming-cheng Lee (Body Expression Dance Theater), Chyi-cheng Lin (Laboratory of Performance Technology, TNUA), and Chieh-hua Hsieh (Anarchy Dance Theatre).
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
24 July, 10:30 am-12:30 pm: Keynote Address on “Blogging Choreography” by Post Natyam Collective.
24 July, 1:30-3:30 pm: Presentations by Taiwanese dance artists.
25 July, 10:30 am-12:30 pm: Keynote Address by Renata Sheppard.
25 July, 1:30-3:30 pm: Roundtable Discussion
Location: Studio 7, Dance College, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA)
Information: http://www.daciwdaintaiwan.org/RelatedActivitiesDTIM.html
Taipei, Taiwan. 20 July 2012. Cynthia performs “Ranri (widow/courtesan)” with Sandra Chatterjee at the Global daCi/WDA Dance Summit.
Combining contemporary abhinaya (emotional expression in Indian dance), intimate video projection, poetic text, and haunting electro-Hindustani music, Ranri (widow/courtesan) evokes the story of Rasulanbai, a child widow from the 1960s who resisted abuse by her in-laws by escaping to become a courtesan. Sensual and poignant, the courtesan’s world is unexpectedly revealed as a place of woman-centered power and queer female-female love. Rasulanbai’s story was taken from Oldenburg’s fieldwork on the last remaining courtesan communities of Lucknow, India. Lucknow, famous for its singing and dancing courtesans, was one of the historical centers of North Indian classical music and kathak dance.
July 20, 2012, 1:30 pm
Taipei National University of the Arts, Dance Theatre
http://www.daciwdaintaiwan.org/
Taipei, Taiwan. 15 July 2012. Cynthia presents “Blogging Choreography,” a talk at the Global daCi/WDA Dance Summit.
Cynthia presents a Project Dialogue as part of the Global Dance and Children International/World Dance Alliance Dance Summit, entitled “Blogging Choreography: Using the Internet to Collaborate Transnationally.” In today's increasingly interconnected world, how do Web 2.0 technologies, social networking and DIY media production redefine the possibilities of choreographic collaboration? Using the working process of the Post Natyam Collective as a case study, we look at how internet tools open up possibilities for cross-border collaboration and artistic coalition. This case study offers a powerful model for how young people can utilize internet and media technologies to create artistic communities, engage in social activism, and express hybrid personal and cultural identities through dance.
July 15, 2012, 1:30-3 pm
Taipei National University of the Arts, Rm C207
http://www.daciwdaintaiwan.org/
Los Angeles, USA. 28 June 2012. Cynthia organizes “Collaborating Across Distance” on behalf of the Network of Ensemble Theaters.
How do ensembles collaborate and connect creatively in today's globalized, technology saturated world? This conversation focuses on collaborating creatively across distance and offers the opportunity to participate in meaningful exchange about best practices for long-distance creation by collaborative ensembles and collectives. Hosted by the Network of Ensemble Theaters as part of their Ensemble ABC's workshop series with support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Thursday, June 28th from 5-6:30 pm
Inner City Arts, Rosenthal Theater
720 Kohler Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021
http://www.inner-cityarts.org/
Montreal, Canada. 1 June 2012. Cynthia and Sandra Chatterjee co-present a
performative paper at the Canadian Society of Dance Studies’ conference.
Cynthia Ling Lee and Sandra Chatterjee present a performative paper for
the 2012
Canadian Society of Dance Studies’ conference, “Collaboration: Intersections,
Negotiations, Mediations in the Worlds of Dance.” Their presentation, “Internet,
Intermedia and Consensual Collaboration: Blogging Choreography by the Post
Natyam Collective,” blends scholarship and mediatized performance.
Abstract: The Post Natyam Collective is a web-based coalition of artists
developing critical and creative approaches to South Asian dance. Their
internet-based collaborative process and intermedia choreographies traverse
multiple time-zones, disciplines, and geo-cultural contexts, translating South
Asian aesthetic tradition for a technological age. Post Natyam’s process is
centralized on a public blog. Within the collective, members follow an
“open-source” philosophy, inviting each other to “borrow, steal, appropriate,
[and] translate” each other’s ideas through “creative recycling and reusing.”
Contesting ideas of single authorship and fixed choreography, their creative
policy is a contemporary re-framing of Indian classical dance’s oral tradition,
where artistic transformation occurs because individuals extend and modify
passed-down materials. Yet the online, public, and non-hierarchical nature of
their process also contradicts India's traditional practices of transferring
knowledge. The contemporary South Asian dance-work produced through this
process is mediatized, with video, text, sound design, and art-books as
important as live dance. Layering multimedia with the flesh-and-blood
performing body, their intermedia choreography blurs the virtual and the live: a
technological reconfiguration of
natya,
a Sanskrit word referring to the inseparable conjunction of drama, dance, and
music in Indian performance tradition.
Friday June 1, 2012, 1:30-3pm
Canadian Society of Dance Studies’ Conference (May 31-June 2, 2012)
Université du Quebec à Montreal
Information:
http://people.uleth.ca/~scds.
Venice, CA. Mar 23-25, 2012. Cynthia performs Learning to Walk Like Radha and fish hook tongue as part of the Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival at the Electric Lodge.
Learning to Walk Like Radha is a semi-autobiographical, humorous commentary on the cultural collisions experienced as a Taiwanese-American feminist attempting to learn kathak in Calcutta. Faced with the requirement to perform gender in ways she cannot grasp, the talking dancer butts up against the overwhelming love and expectations of her guru and tradition, torn between competing impulses to act as obedient disciple, earnest anthropologist, and stubborn feminist.
fish hook tongue is a solo dance-theater piece that exposes the horrors and possibilities of bilingualism in the context of Taiwan’s history of linguistic colonization. Poetic storytelling, garbled soundscapes, and broken gestures evoke how a first generation American and her immigrant mother struggle with and express love for their mother tongue of Taiwanese.
March 23-25, 2012
The Electric Lodge
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Feb 20-Mar 9, 2012. Cynthia teaches an intensive choreography workshop to contemporary Cambodian dance artists for Amrita Performing Arts.
Cynthia will facilitate the exploration of contemporary approaches to Cambodian dance in collaboration with workshop participants. Amrita Performing Arts was established in 2003 to help revive the wide spectrum of Cambodia's traditional performing arts; as a reflection of shifts in the country's artistic climate, their mission has evolved to include pursuits in contemporary dance and theater.
http://amritaperformingarts.org
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Mar 9, 2012. Cynthia performs dreaming in taal alongside works-in-progress by Amrita workshop participants.
Ann Arbor, MI. Feb 18, 2012. Cynthia and
Sandra Chatterjee co-present a paper
at the
Congress on Research in Dance's
"Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance"
conference
“Solidarity
- Rasa/Autobiography - Abhinaya:
South Asian
Tactics for Performing Queerness” examines the work of D’Lo, a Sri
Lankan-gay-hip-hop performance artist, and the Post Natyam Collective, a
transnational coalition that develops critical and creative approaches to South
Asian dance. The works utilize two strategies for performing queerness in
relation to South Asian cultural practices: (1) autobiographic performance art
rooted in identity politics and (2) the South Asian technique of abhinaya.
These strategies use different modes of identification, approaches to the gaze,
and audience-performer relationships. Autobiographical solo performance creates
solidarity through shared identity or alliances between performer and audience.
Abhinaya evokes pleasure and sensuality in multiple, ambiguous ways towards the
goal of evoking rasa, ideally the audience’s experience of emotional-spiritual
transcendence. We investigate tactical cross-overs between the strategies of
autobiography and abhinaya in D’Lo’s and Post Natyam’s work: how do they
interact, where might they exclude each other, and what kind of performance of
queerness emerges through their interplay?
Febuary 16-18, 2012
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
www.cordance.org/2012SpecialConference
Los Angeles, CA. Jan 20, 2012. Cynthia performs her new collaboration with Carol McDowell at White Chalk Horse: An Evening of New Offerings in Cambodian Dance Ritual.
Prumsodun Ok’s White Chalk Horse: An Evening of New Offerings in Cambodia Dance Ritual, commemorates the anniversary of his father's passing by repurposing the buong suong ceremony, offering to the ancestor spirits and the gods new bodies and languages in a manner that is sweet, personal, and intimate. The evening also features performance offerings by Cynthia Ling Lee with Carol McDowell and Yannis Adoniou's KUNST-STOFF.
White Chalk Horse is part of The Next Steps, a series curated by NATIVE STRATEGIES that highlights dance based performance artists who have taken the next step beyond their personal practice to create a venue or agency for a dance community that would not otherwise exist. NATIVE STRATEGIES is a network of performance art makers, producers and critical thinkers who seek to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles's performance art community.
January 20, 2011 at 8 pm
The Sweat Spot
3327 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
RSVP: prumsodun.ok@gmail.com, Information: nativestrategiesla@gmail.com
Artist Statement: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150293354516731
Santa Monica, USA. 11-13 November 2011. Cynthia's movement collaboration work can be seen in Alison M. De La Cruz's L.A. Malong Malong.
In a mix of semi-autobiography and a queer adaptation of Rapunzel, De La Cruz explores the question, “Who would you climb a tower for?” Zelle, Princely Butch and a host of other characters chart this re-imagined, interactive urban fairy tale. “Part of the show is inspired by a Southern Philippines folkdance,” De La Cruz shares, “in this dance the malong (a traditional ‘tube skirt’ made of woven multi-colored cotton cloth,) can transform into a variety of shapes and uses. I found it an interesting metaphor for the gender roles and our identities based on these roles.”
Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd.,
Santa Monica, CA 90403.
Ticket prices: $20 General/$15 Students & Seniors.
For tickets and info:
www.teada.org, tickets@teada.org or 310-998-8765.
Singapore. October 2011. Cynthia teaches contact improvisation at Maya Dance Theatre.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1 October 2011. Cynthia performs “ruddha (rude, huh?)” as part of Dancebox.
8.30pm, Saturday 1 October 2011
The Actors Studio @ Lot 10 Rooftop
Entry: RM 10 by donation at the door
For more information about Dancebox, contact
Bilqis 017 310 3769 or contact@mydancealliance.org
Dancebox is part of the FUSED series at The Actors Studio, and is jointly
produced by MyDance Alliance and The Actors Studio.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. September 2011. Cynthia teaches choreography workshops at ASWARA and Universiti Malaya.
Colorado Springs, USA. 13 July 2011. Cynthia's new work, [4], is performed at Colorado College Dance Festival.
A tongue-in-cheek
postmodern tribute to Trisha Brown’s Cube score as learned from Carol McDowell,
[4] is an four-sided improvisational structure created in collaboration with the
dancers. An absurdist, geometrical, and sonic abstraction, the piece has four
sections that combine pre-composed material and improvisational openness to
different degrees. Directed by Cynthia Ling Lee with improvised performance,
movement, and sound by Khanhsong Nguyen, Jazmyne Koch, Rebecca Van Dover and
Hillary Pokrywka, [4] is inspired by elements from Carol McDowell’s “surrender”
and Trisha Brown’s “Water Motor.”
Young Artists Concert
Wednesday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Colorado College
Tickets: $5 at the door
Colorado Springs, USA. 27 June-1 July 2011. Cynthia teaches contact improvisation at the Colorado College Dance Festival.
Los Angeles, USA. 24, 26 June 2011. Cynthia performs SUNOH! Tell me, Sister with Anjali Tata and Shyamala Moorty in the National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival.
In a fluid layering of video, live dance, and theater, SUNOH! TELL ME SISTER brings to life subversive stories of women’s erotic power and resistance. An excavation of seldom heard South Asian female voices from the historical dancer-courtesan of the Indian subcontinent to the contemporary survivor of domestic violence. In collaboration with AWAZ, the violence prevention group of the South Asian Network.
Inner-City Arts
Rosenthal Theater, Los Angeles, CA
June 24 at 7pm and June 26 at 4pm
http://2011.caata.net/sunoh-tell-me-sister
Tickets: $12
students/seniors, $15 general
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/167409
Los Angeles, USA. 17 June 2011. Cynthia's choreographic consulting work can be seen in Sheetal Gandhi's premiere of "Human Nature" at Grand Performances.
"Human Nature" is inspired by Shel Silverstein's classic story, The Giving Tree. Created, directed, and performed by Sheetal Gandhi, this multimedia one-woman show features digital scenography by Anaitte Vaccaro/MOUSAI, music and sound design by Jesse Gilbert, music arrangement and consulting by Ravindra Deo and Chauncy Godwin, choreography consulting by Cynthia Ling Lee, lighting design by Chris Kuhl, and costume design by Stephanie Helms. Funded by a COLA grant by the City of LA's Department of Cultural Affairs.
June 17, 2011, 8:30PM
Grand Performances
California Plaza
300-350 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Free Admission
Los Angeles, USA. 14
May 2011.
Cynthia performs “dreaming in taal” at LACMA MUSE's Artwalk.
LACMA Muse’s major annual event attracts audiences of all ages to the museum for
a day and night filled with exciting programs. Live music, dance performances,
large-scale installations, and interactive art projects proliferate around
LACMA’s campus in conjunction with a number of unique happenings in the
neighboring galleries along the Miracle Mile. From 1-3 pm, a cross section of
Los Angeles contemporary dance and movement artists will present a series of
site-specific performances on the LACMA campus.
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art
5900 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Free Admission
11 am-8 pm
Madison, USA. 30 April 2011. Cynthia performs SUNOH! Tell Me, Sister with Shyamala Moorty at U. Wisconsin-Madison.
April 30, 2011, 8 pm at
Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tickets: $5 at the door
Athens,
Georgia, USA. 21 April
2011. Cynthia perform SUNOH! Tell Me, Sister with Shyamala Moorty at U.
Georgia.
April 21, 2011, 8 pm at New Dance Theatre
University of Georgia
Tickets: $5, Reservations at the Tate Student Center Box Office, (706) 542-8579
Champaign-Urbana, USA. 17 April 2011. Cynthia performs SUNOH! Tell Me, Sister with Shyamala Moorty at U. Illinois.
April 17, 2011, 3 pm at
Krannert Center for Performing Arts
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Tickets: $5 at the door
Santa Monica, CA. 31
March-3 April 2011. Cynthia performs world premiere of SUNOH! Tell Me, Sister
with Shyamala Moorty at the Miles Memorial Playhouse.
SUNOH! Tell Me, Sister is
an evening of
multimedia storytelling and contemporary Indian dance-theater that
brings to life
women's stories of being silenced, finding voice, and the importance of sisterly
community . Performed by Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty with
long-distance contributions from Sandra Chatterjee and Anjali Tata. Other
collaborators include Carole Kim (multimedia design), Ravindra Deo (music),
Loren Nerell (music), Mona Heinze (dramaturgy), Sangita Shresthova (dance-media
collaboration), and Kedar Lawrence (lighting design/technical direction).
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA
Preview (pay what you can): March 31, 2011, 8 pm
Show: Apr 1-2 at 8pm, Apr 3 at 2pm
Tickets: $20 General/$15 Students and Seniors
Reservations: (310) 998-8765, teada@teada.org
Los Angeles, USA. 5
March 2011: Cynthia performs SUNOH! Tell Me Sister (work-in-progress)
with Shyamala Moorty at the Bootleg Dance Festival.
Curated by Heidi Duckler and Alicia Hoge-Adams, the Bootleg Dance Festival
commissions new work from seven exciting choreographers from all parts of Los
Angeles County, whose work covers a full range of styles, cultures, and
approaches representing contemporary dance in the world today. On March 5, Post
Natyam Collective members, Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty, will perform
material from SUNOH! Tell Me, Sister, featuring new multimedia collaborations
with Carole Kim. Post Natyam Collective will share the evening with hip-hop
dance theater company, Antics Performance. The festival, which runs from 4-6
March, will also feature work by Arianne Hoffman, Keith Glassman, Carmela
Hermann, WIFE, and Jamie Benson.
March 5, 2011, 8 pm
Bootleg Theater
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles 90057
Tickets: $18/night or $40 Festival Pass
www.bootlegtheater.org,213-389-3856
Santa Monica, CA, USA. 11-12 February 2011. Cynthia performs Re-tracing Histories, Re-dancing the Past at Highways Performance Space.
How do our bodies remember, dismember, and reshape traces of the past? In this intimate evening of interdisciplinary performance, Cynthia Lee and Prumsodun Ok respectively examine the function of the dancer’s body in North Indian kathak and Cambodian classical dance. At times poetic and vulnerable, critical and political, the two artists share many identities, histories, and movement forms on one stage.
Friday, February 11 and
Saturday February 12, 2011 at 8:30pm
Highways Performance Space and Gallery
1651 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA
West Chester, PA. USA. February 3, 2011. Cynthia performs “Nine-Patch” with composer-pianist David Cutler at West Chester University.
NEW MUSIC at West
Chester University
Thursday, February 3, 2011
in Madeleine Wing Adler Theater
at West Chester University
West Chester, PA
Philadelphia, PA. 7 February 2011. Cynthia performs “Nine-Patch” and “You Ain’t Never Gonna Get Me Down” with composer-pianist David Cutler at Jefferson University.
12-1 pm
Jefferson University
Blumle Life Sciences Building
233 S. 10th St, Philadelphia PA
Dhaka, Bangladesh. 30 January 2011. Cynthia performs an evening of contemporary choreography at Chhayanaut alongside with works-in-progress by choreography workshop participants.
Dhaka, Bangladesh. 24-29 January 2011. Cynthia teaches a workshop in South Asian approaches to choreography Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy through World Dance Alliance-Bangladesh.
San Francisco, USA. January 23, 2011. "s k i n" screens at Too Much! Queer Performance Marathon.
A collaborative
dance-for-camera work by Cynthia Ling Lee and Sangita Shresthova, “s k i n”
intersects theory and embodiment, with words that slide and melt across a moving
landscape of female skin, simultaneously labeling and evading graspable
descriptions. The work’s mysterious, sensual imagery ponders on the conflicted
image of India's dancer-courtesan through the inscription of postcolonial theory
on her eroticized and yet vulnerable body.
Instigated and curated by Julie Phelps and Keith Hennessy, Too Much! provides a
platform for investigation and negotiation - through live performance and video
art - of queer as an aesthetic and tactic. Working the margins of both
mainstream and LGBT cultures, Too Much! strives to offers a temporal community
in the borderlands of artistic contagion, exchange, friction, and tourism.
Crashing the limits of neatly package identity-based events, Too Much! brings
together artists and audiences on the basis of a shared appreciation of
experimental, untried, queer art. Presented by Zero Performance, THEOFFCENTER
and Dance Mission.
Sunday, January 23,
2011
2pm – midnight
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street (at Mission), SF
Tickets: $10 all-day pass,
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/139548
Information:
http://www.circozero.org/too_much/index.html