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Asian Art Museum in collaboration with Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center, and Lenora Lee Dance present World Premiere of Convergent Waves: SF
site-responsive, multimedia dance performances by Lenora Lee Dance
From the award winning site-responsive, multimedia dance company Lenora Lee Dance, comes their newest performance piece Convergent Waves: SF, engaging viewers across the country in 2022 and 2023. Audiences are guided through a journey set in the Asian Art Museum to see unfolding stories of community agency, resilience, and transformation. Visitors experience a collective statement for the preservation of community, as neighborhoods across the country face cultural erosion, loss of businesses, and displacement through the pandemic and gentrification.
at Asian Art Museum
Thursday, June 9, 2022
6:00 – 7:00pm, and
7:30 – 8:30pm
Performances will begin on time, please arrive early.
These performances are also part of Asian Improv aRts’ 35th Anniversary programming and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s United States of Asian America Festival.
LOCATION
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street (at McAllister St)
San Francisco, CA 94102
https://asianart.org or (415) 581-3500
Click here for parking & transportation
ADMISSION
$10 plus museum admission
For more info: www.LenoraLeeDance.com, https://asianart.org
For questions or high resolution images, email [email protected]
The Asian Art Museum strives to be welcoming and accessible to all. Please visit our Accessibility page to see a full list of accommodations, including complimentary assistive listening devices, ASL interpretation, and wheelchairs. Please note that for some accommodations, we require at least two weeks advance notice.
LENORA LEE DANCE
Lenora Lee Dance (LLD) integrates contemporary dance, film, music, and research and has gained increasing attention for its sustained pursuit of issues related to immigration, incarceration, global conflict, and its impacts, particularly on women and families. The company creates works that are both set in public and private spaces, intimate and at the same time large-scale, inspired by individual stories as well as community strength, at times crafted for the proscenium, or underwater, or in the air, and at times are site-responsive, immersive and interactive. For the last 14 years LLD has been pushing the envelope of large-scale multimedia, and immersive dance performance that connects various styles of movement and music to culture, history and human rights issues. Its work has grown to encompass the creation, presentation and screening of films, museum and gallery installations, civic engagement and educational programming.
Conceived, Produced & Directed by Lenora Lee
Choreography by Lenora Lee in collaboration with the performers
Performers / Dance Collaborators: Naoko Brown, IJ Chan, Flora Hyoin Kim Han, Lynn Huang, SanSan Kwan, Johnny Huy Nguyen
Media Design by Lenora Lee
Music composed by Vijay Iyer, performed by Fieldwork, Vijay Iyer Trio, Miranda Cuckson, Michi Wianko, Kyle Arrmbust, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, and Wadada Leo Smith. Additional recordings composed and performed by Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith. Composition by Francis Wong performed by Francis Wong, Deszon X. Claiborne, and Tatsu Aoki. Composition and performance by Tatsu Aoki, with Kioto Aoki, Jamie Kempkers, and Edward Wilkerson Jr.
For more detailed information about the music, click here
http://www.lenoraleedance.com/2022/01/world-premiere-of-convergent-waves-sf-6-09-22/
ASIAN ART MUSEUM Located in the heart of San Francisco, the museum is home to one of the world’s finest collections of Asian art, with more than 18,000 awe-inspiring artworks ranging from ancient jades and ceramics to contemporary video installations. Dynamic special exhibitions, cultural celebrations and public programs for all ages provide rich art experiences that unlock the past and spark questions about the future.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
http://www.lenoraleedance.com/2022/01/world-premiere-of-convergent-waves-sf-6-09-22/
Convergent Waves is supported by Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center, Asian Art Museum, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, ArtsEmerson, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, Pao Arts Center, and by Generous Individuals
Photo above: Lynn Huang & Johnny Nguyen, by Robbie Sweeny
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, United States