Saturday, February 5, 2011

My Works in 2011

Currently I am working on several projects and all of them are so precious and so special to me.
I am working with Degenerate Art Ensemble's new production "Red Shoes".

photo by Joshua Kohl
photo by Jason Lew
Photo by Han Park
photo by dohee Lee
Haruko Nishimura (Performer,Dancer, vocalist, musician) I don't know which category that I should put her in. She is truly amazing artist and i am so glad to work with her very closely.
and Joshua Kohl amazing composer, Jason Puccinelli (scenic design), Ela Lamblin (sculptural instrument), Leo Mayberry (video), Jherek Bischoff (music), Christine Tschirgi (costume) and myself Dohee Lee (dance/percussion/voice)
and we have a great opportunity to work at watermill residency program in March to April
http://watermillcenter.org/residency/degenerateartensemble

"Line Between" next week at residency program at ODC Theater.

December 1-4, 2011: "LINE BETWEEN", at ODC, San Francisco
conceived and performed by Dohee Lee and Shinichi Iova-Koga
direction by Dana Iova-Koga
music by Jason Ditzian and Suki O'Kane
set by Frank Lee and Amy Rathbone
lights by Allen Willner

And,
This coming April 11th, I am going to be in NYC to premier my another string quartet composition work with Meet the composer and ETHEL.
I am so excited about this concert and sharing my music with people, I composed this piece as a ritual music for everyone both musicians and audiences.

The title of this music is HonBiBaekSan (the Ritual of White Mountian) Honbibaeksan, Korean words, we use this term when you have a shocking news or sad news that you are mentally, emotionally disturbed that you are almost fainted like your face color changed like white paper(pale).... but i changed the meaning differently.. , Okay.. let's look at more detail word by word
Hon means spirits
Bi means fly
Baek means white, pale
San means spread or scatter.

and i changed, countless spirits fly higher into the mountain and layered themselves on top of the mountain.
Finally, Spirits and Ritual music create the huge white layers of mountain and this mountain protects both human and spirit world to be harmonized.

God! this is not easy to explain, you should come to listen to this music in April 11th in NYC.(I will update soon about this or go to my website www.doheelee.com)

At last,
I am preparing next PURI Project 6th "GaNADa" present by AIRs and APICC.
when you look at my old post in this blog, you will find some of info about Mago (Korean Goddess), I have been dig this project since 2009 then and tried some (2009 deepSea) (2010 GaNADa small project), and now still try out to develop this project and PURI 6 is going to be part of that.
I am so excited share this project as well because this is my personal journey that I can share with people through mythology, Shamanism and Karmic way.

for now, I am just giving you a little taste of them but it will be more detail each project little by little.
I will keep post info through words, photos and whatever that can address.

and sorry for my broken English, and my dear friend said don't worry about the grammar or whatever, just write what you feel and what you see and what you want to share.
So here I am...
love to share.

1 comment:

Arts Dohee Lee said...

Want to send you an aesthetic feedback from your performance too:

Realizing how much I missed your voice
I felt the response of my body deep down in my belly
Healing liquid felt your sound
To the grief of the loss of my beautiful cat 2 days before

Your drum so deep down
In quite, deep sea waters
Here is my body. Still here.
My vessel, my instrument

Memories of the wild self discovered in my childhood
Revisiting again
Reclaiming on the journey of my life
That's why I am here for

In Gratitude
Of the universal healing forces
This is my lodge
This is the interweaving of the old and new worlds.


Much love,
caroline