photo by Bill Hebert by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal As I’ve gotten to know the Philadelphia dance community over the past few years, I’ve always been a bit mystified by Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers. Between the hyphen, the forward slash, the abbreviation of the company’s CHI MAC studio in South Philly and the spelling of [...]
The Dangerous And Movin’ (dAm) Dance Company will open its 2013 season with EvoL at the Performance Garage located at 1515 Brandywine Street in Philadelphia on March 29th and 30th at 8pm. Jessica Warchal-King will also be presenting three works as part of the show. dAm, founded in 2009, is a Philadelphia-based, contemporary dance company [...]
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers makes their Spring Philadelphia appearance at Drexel University’s Mandell Theater on Friday, March 22 at 8 PM and Saturday, March 23 at 3 PM and 8 PM. The program, ONE: Gifts from Afar, features the world premiere of One, an exploration of humankind’s rituals surrounding the drive to win. Offering contemporary, Zen-inspired works [...]
KYL/D ‘s InHale Performance Series under the curatorial direction of Jessica Warchal-King and artistic direction of Kun-Yang Lin gets ready to kick off another year of stellar performances on Friday, February 1, 2013 at 7:30pm at the CHI Movement Arts Center, 1316 S 9th Street, Philadelphia. KYL/D’s InHale Performance Series offers a supportive environment that [...]
by Steven Weisz for The Dance Journal. Photos by Bill Hebert. Following the cycle of life, death and renewal, that this revisited work embodies, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers presented Beyond the Bones Revisited 2002/2012 this past weekend at The Painted Bride. Kun-Yang Lin was one of the countless individuals, who were in New York City when the [...]
By Brenda Taleman for The Dance Journal Photo credits: Bill Hebert I am a recent transplant from the Chicago arts scene to what is now my new home in Philadelphia. Just as this city has many different neighborhoods, each with their own distinctive style and nuances, I have found the Philadelphia dance community to be [...]
Reprinted with permission of the author, Ruth E. Grauert, Bearnstow Journal, http://www.bearnstowjournal.org The InHale Performance Series is supported by the Kun-Yang Lin organization at the Chi Movement Arts Center to give emerging choreographers a venue for their works—a necessary function for the life of art. Jessica Warchal-King is the curator for this program, which presented [...]
The critically-acclaimed and internationally active Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) is pleased to announce a performance that offers its striking East-West mixes at Montgomery County Community College Science Center Theater in Blue Bell, PA on March 12 at 8pm. Known for its “distinctive blend of traditional and Western dance [that] has the dark, bold force of a [...]
The critically-acclaimed and internationally active Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) is pleased to announce its 2011 home season show, offering its striking East-West mixes and featuring a world premiere of “Mandala Project” at The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia on February 10, 11 and 12, 2011 at 8pm. This year’s concert follows two consecutive seasons of [...]
ETC. Performance Series, also known as “Philly’s FAVORITE hi-drama, lo-key performance series” is an opportunity for performance artists of any and all genres to show their work to a new and diverse audience in an intimate venue. Dance, music, theater, performance art, stand-up comedy, spoken-word poetry, “etc.” is all welcome! Performances are given bi-monthly on [...]
