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KUN-YANG LIN/DANCERS’ HOME SEASON: Beyond the Bones (a Philadelphia Premiere)
The critically acclaimed and internationally active Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) has announced its 2012 home season show featuring the Philadelphia premiere of Beyond the Bones at The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia on March 29, 30, and 31, 2012, at 8 p.m. This year’s concert follows three consecutive seasons of KYL/D’s sold-out shows presented by The Painted Bride.
In his groundbreaking, contemporary works, Lin has developed a personal movement language that is an unexpected hybrid of Western and Eastern cultures. Lin draws upon diverse, multicultural influences including many from his formative years in Taiwan, such as calligraphy, painting, martial arts, tai chi, and traditional Chinese and Southeast Asian dance movements. Yet he expresses these impulses in a thoroughly contemporary way, borne of his extensive performance experience worldwide.
Through the lens of an immigrant artist finely trained in Asian movement traditions; contemplative practices; Eastern philosophy; and Western, contemporary dance techniques, Lin’s work grapples with the complexities inherent in a prevailing, dualistic culture, where motion and stillness, form and formlessness, silence and sound, multiplicity and oneness are perceived as opposites. In cultivating his dancers to coalesce around shared values, Lin seeks to explore our common humanity while calling forth the gifts of each individual.
The critically acclaimed and internationally active Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) has announced its 2012 home season show featuring the Philadelphia premiere of Beyond the Bones at The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia on March 29, 30, and 31, 2012, at 8 p.m. This year’s concert follows three consecutive seasons of KYL/D’s sold-out shows presented by The Painted Bride.
In his groundbreaking, contemporary works, Lin has developed a personal movement language that is an unexpected hybrid of Western and Eastern cultures. Lin draws upon diverse, multicultural influences including many from his formative years in Taiwan, such as calligraphy, painting, martial arts, tai chi, and traditional Chinese and Southeast Asian dance movements. Yet he expresses these impulses in a thoroughly contemporary way, borne of his extensive performance experience worldwide.
Through the lens of an immigrant artist finely trained in Asian movement traditions; contemplative practices; Eastern philosophy; and Western, contemporary dance techniques, Lin’s work grapples with the complexities inherent in a prevailing, dualistic culture, where motion and stillness, form and formlessness, silence and sound, multiplicity and oneness are perceived as opposites. In cultivating his dancers to coalesce around shared values, Lin seeks to explore our common humanity while calling forth the gifts of each individual.
“His distinctive blend of traditional and Western dance has the dark,
bold force of a woodcut print.”
~New York Times
bold force of a woodcut print.”
~New York Times
