Cursive
Premiered February 2006 at The Vision Festival, New York City (version titled “Wild Grass”). A mixed media solo installation/performance work performed on paper with ink. Also performed at Queens Museum Biennale and various New York City galleries (also titled “Ink/Paper/Body/Scent”). Exhibition at DeVos Museum, Northern Michigan University.
Nomad: The River
Premiered March 2005 at the Dance Theater Workshop, New York City. Multi-media dance theater work for four performers created in collaboration with sound/visual designer Christopher Salter. Work toured U.S. and was performed at Shanghai Contemporary Theater Festival.
Nomad: Tea
Premiered April 2002 at The Asia Society, New York City. Solo work with green tea powder created in collaboration with artist Wenda Gu as part of “New Way of Tea” exhibition at Asia Society Galleries.
/Asunder
Premiered May 2001 at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York City. Evening-length intercultural dance theater work created in collaboration with installation artist Cai Guo-Qiang and composer Robert Een. Work toured U.S.
Empty Tradition/City of Peonies
Premiered November 1998 at The Asia Society, New York City. Evening-length dance theater work created in collaboration with Indonesian composer Tony Prabowo and MacArthur Award-winning artist Xu Bing. Performers included Tibetan modern dancer Sang Jijia (later with William Forsythe Company), Jennifer Nugent (currently with Bill T. Jones), a Buddhist “fighting monk” and seven Indonesian musicians performing live. Also performed at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
Past Works
The Tipsy Concubine
Premiered August 1999 at the Jerusalem Museum, Israel.
Empty Bell
Premiered April 1997 at The Japan Society.
Seeing In the Rain
Premiered November 2003 at Arizona State University Theater.
I Move To Keep Things Whole
Premiered November 1997 at Mulberry Street Theater, New York City.
Sun/Moon/Me
Premiered September 1997 at Pace Downtown Theater, New York City.
Love Suicides at Amijima
Premiered September 1996 at Chikamatsu Festival, Nagata, Japan.
Book of Women
Premiered July 1996 at Indonesian Dance Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Solo I & II
Premiered April 1996 at Movement Research at Judson Church, New York City.
Fan and Shakuhachi
Premiered January 1996 at Theater X, Tokyo, Japan.
Legacies
Premiered August 1995 at Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Festival, New York City.
Shaman
Premiered July 1995 at Contemporary Dance Festival, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
The News
Premiered December 1994 at Beijing Dance Academy Theater, Beijing, China.
Sacred Fire
Premiered November 1994 at Jakarta International Dance Festival, Indonesia.
Portrait: Plunging Into the Sea
Premiered April 1993 at Asian Contemporary Dance Festival, La Mama ETC, New York City.
Threshold: A Dance Theater of Remembering and Forgetting
Premiered November 1990 at La Mama ETC, New York City.
June Snow/Birds in Warped Time
Premiered April 1989 at Washington Square Theater, New York City.
Either Side of the Mountain
Premiered August 1987 at the Jerusalem Museum, Israel.
Listening to the Rain
Premiered August 1985 at City Hall Theater, Hong Kong (choreographed for Hong Kong Dance Company).
Shadow of the Moon
Prize in solo competition, International Young Choreographer’s Competition (Hong Kong) 1985.
