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 [...]
by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers are premiering ONE: Gifts from Afar by choreographer Kun-Yang Lin at the Mandell Theater this week on the same bill as Lin’s 2011 piece, The Mandala Project. Twice this month, Lin, his dancers and Ken Metzner, executive director of the company, opened their rehearsals for their [...]
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 [...]
The Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts announced that fellowships of up to $10,000 have been awarded to 8 local performing artists. These fellowships will support research and development projects in a wide-variety of disciplines. The Fellowships in the Arts were created to help individual artists take the next step in their personal artistic growth [...]
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 [...]
New York artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher create an interactive sound and video installation on an epic scale, accompanied by Philadelphia-based Kun-Yang Lin for three solo performances. A new work by Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher will be opening Saturday October 20 at the Skybox 2424 Studios. A thunderstorm contained within a series of [...]
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 [...]
The critically-acclaimed and internationally active Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) is pleased to announce 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 8pm. This year’s concert follows three consecutive seasons of KYL/D’s sold-out shows presented by [...]
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 [...]
Photo by Bill Hebert “Mandala” is a masterwork of art and stagecraft. By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer Dancers use their bodies as instruments, and they need constant training and upkeep, research and inquiry. Over the last two years, dancer/choreographer Kun-Yang Lin put his company of nine through a varied, rigorous training program. Thursday night [...]
