Dean Moss Dance Theater Workshop Partnership Project
June 13 - June 30, 2008
Moss conducted collaborative research with choreographer Yoon Jim Kim, the project composer and the cast of five Korean dancers for Kisaeng becomes you. In residence, Moss refined technological components and enhanced the visual design. Collaborators included composer, Okkyung Lee, and dancers Yu Ri Bae, Jeong Eun Yang, Ji Sun Kwen, So Yeoun Lim and Mi Huyn Lee. Dance Theater Worskhop will host the U.S. premiere in Spring 2009.
Dean Moss is a director, choreographer, and video artist. Past presentations and exhibitions include The Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Paris University, New York Expo of Short Film and Video, The FNB Vita Dance Festival in Johannesburg South Africa, The Brooklyn Museum, Anthology Film Archives, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Walker Art Center and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
Moss has received a BAXten Arts and Artists In Progress Award, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships; a Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production Fund grant, an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, an Artist Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and a New York Dance and Performance BESSIE Award. His video works are included in the collections of The Kitchen and Third World Newsreel.
Moss served as the Curator of Dance and Performance at The Kitchen from 1999-2004. He was a Guest Professor from 2003-04 at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He currently is a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, the Director of Resource Development at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and a Curatorial Advisor at The Kitchen. He is the founding director of Gametophyte Inc.: a performance and media production company that supports creative works and collaborations blending dance and performance.
Yoon Jin Kimwas born in Seoul, South Korea. She has started to dance from Korean traditional dance since she was 7 years old. Since then, she has never stopped studying dance and dancing.
She received a B.A, in Dance, M.A in Physical Education and Doctor’s degree on Dance Science by Ewha Women’s University.
Kim started to dance as a professional since 1992. She was one of the members of The Real Dance Company for 11 years. She has performed more than 50 works in Korea and also performed many times as a solo dancer.
In 1995, for the first time, she choreographed her first work Peeking into a birdcage and had received fund grants from “The New Generation’s all new works.” It opened her choreography capability and she started to acknowledge as a choreographer. She fully got into choreographing in 2002. She choreographed in The 5th Seoul Performing Arts Festival: Desire, Seoul Performing Arts Festival 2006,: The Old Song Book, and she choreographed the play History of Kim, YongBae for the Seoul Performing Arts Company. Stay Still is the piece which well blended with Tradition and Media. This work is chosen as the best Choreographed dance by the National Dance Company and her work performed again 2007. Furthermore, she made a new piece in 2007; it is called “Shoes at page 275.” This piece is about existence and Clinical report of Woman’s body. Once more she made this piece together with media and her work estimated as an Excellent dance piece. Her work is starting to be recognized and noticed broadly for many productions even Theatres.
In 2005, she has made her own dance company “Kim, YoonJin Dance Company” and she is up and doing as a Choreographer and dance performer. At the same time, she had taught in Sunwha Art high school and Seoul National University in Korea. For the present, she is the holding of and additional post professor at Kookmin University.
