Your Impact
Your donation helps share American artistry on the international dance scene, broaden our perspective, and guide us home with new insights to share with the Philadelphia dance community and the many other U.S. communities where we tour.Your generosity will help fund this performance that will open doors for future touring opportunities and the forging of relationships with other artistic collaborators.
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Kun-Yang Lin/ Dancers 1316 S. 9th Street Philadelphia, PA 19147
From all of us at KYL/D, We THANK YOU for your support!
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About KYL/D
Noted for its superbly trained dancers and inventive choreography, the internationally-active KYL/D probes at the limits of national identities, drawing upon Eastern philosophies while expanding the perimeter of contemporary dance. Artistic Director Lin's zen-inspired practice of dance manifests in lush works of poetic sensibility that the New York Times has said "create and inhabit worlds of their own". Lin draws upon multicultural insights from his ongoing research throughout Asia, creating a personal movement language that is an unexpected hybrid between Western and Eastern cultures, suffused with strong spiritual underpinnings. KYL/D has performed across the United States and internationally, including at the Busan International Dance Festival in Korea, Jogia International AsiaTri festivals in Indonesia, Festival Internacional de Danza in Mexico, Victoria Theatre in Singapore, HsinChu Performing Arts Center in Taiwan, in the U.S at Interlochen Festival, Columbia Festival, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, Dancing in the Streets Festical, Painted Bride Arts Center, Annenberg Center, Kimmel Center and the Barnes Foundation Museum. More information at kunyanglin.org.
KYL/D's artists are: Kun-Yang Lin, Jessica Warchal-King* , Eiren Shuman*, Evalina "Wally" Cain Carbonell*, Liu Mo*, Rachael Hart*, Brandi Ou*, Vuthy Ou*, Brian Cordova, Wei Wei Ma and Helen Hale. (*Denotes Tanzmesse Cast)
Lighting Designer- Stephen Petrili
Composer/Sound Consultant: Cory Neale
Please note: The above Philo Project video contains excerpts of "to dust," a piece choreographed by long-time KYL/D artist and independent choreographer, Olive Prince.
About Mandala Project
The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed it as “a masterwork of art, spirituality, and stagecraft”, and the curators of the Tanzmesse have described it as follows:
“Dancers flow into one another, interweaving ecstatically to meditative sounds and drawing on the trance dances of Sufi dervishes. Seeing moves into feeling, everyday life is slowly blotted out as the performance takes us on a journey into ourselves – like the magic mandala, the holy circle of tantric Buddhism which links the viewer with cosmic powers, thereby opening the door to the soul. The Borobudur temple site on Java, which is shaped like a mandala, inspired Kun-Yang Lin's choreography.”
About Tanzmesse
The internationale tanzmesse is a biennial festival platform for communicating and networking in the field
of contemporary dance. At the Tanzmesse international dance companies and
artists present their work live on stage and choreographers, dancers, agencies,
presenters and cultural institutions network and present their work in a lively forum. (Courtesy of Tanzmesse)
