About this Event
MU–Connector/When the land stands alone with The Storytellers’ Mero Geet Mero Yatra is a multi-part ritual theater experience from Korean shamanistic performance artist Dohee Lee.
The performance explores ancestral traditions transmuted through dance, singing, drumming, and storytelling, weaving together electronic soundscapes, an altar installation, and community participation to create a communal creative ritual experience.
Built from collective community healing rituals, MU–Connector delves into our myths, ancestral land, history, and stories, while also reflecting on wounds suffered and inflicted through systemic oppression in the U.S. and our homelands.
This theater experience includes performances from Asian Refugees United’s The Storytellers’ Group with Manose Singh (Mero Geet Mero Yatra: My Song My Journey), CoRazOn/CRE Cohorts, Mu Ritual Drummers, and Puri Arts Collectives.
June 23–24, 2023 at the YBCA Forum
https://ybca.org/event/dohee-lee-mu-connector/
About Dohee Lee
Dohee Lee weaves her multiple virtuosities in drumming, dancing, and singing into immersive ritualized theatrical creations. Born on Jeju Island, Korea, she trained at the master-level in music and dance styles rooted in Korean shamanism. In 1998, Lee moved to Oakland, CA, to create a new art form. Since then, she has become an award-winning traditional and contemporary arts performer, collaborating with Kronos Quartet, Anna Halprin, inkBoat, Degenerate Art Ensemble and many others.
Lee’s work ranges from solo performances to full-scale theater productions. Lee utilizes cutting-edge wearable wireless controller technology to seamlessly integrate acoustic and electronic sounds, video projections, dance, vocals and rhythm. She emphasizes the mythical, experimental, ritualistic, historical and healing aspects of performance and installation, catalyzing new relationships between identity, nature, spirituality, and the political.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
YBCA Forum, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, United States