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 saying for March usually goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. In the Philly dance performance world, it kind of went the opposite since as the month went on schedule just got crazier and more jam packed. I tried to get to as much as I could and have tried to [...]
By Jessica C. Warchal-King for The Dance Journal Listening. Awareness. Humility. These words triangulate my experience on tour in Indonesia with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers and provide depth to my own research as a performer. The Company participated in the Jogja International Performing Arts Festival (JIPA) in Jogjakarta, the cultural capital of Indonesia. Our trip was made [...]
By Merilyn Jackson, FOR THE INQUIRER The backbone of the month-long Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts has been more local than international, with collaborations among many Philadelphia arts groups. Some were unlikely matches and few will live on memorably as great works of art, yet many have resulted in surprisingly high-quality works that made [...]
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 [...]
by Merilyn Jackson for The Dance Journal The martial arts and martial arts training are practiced internationally and in recent decades they have played a role in reshaping dance and choreography in the United States and Europe. By studying and training in any of the martial arts, a dancer’s body absorbs movement and takes on [...]
By Merilyn Jackson for the Inquirer. Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers opened their second engagement at the Painted Bride Thursday night, once again to a sellout crowd. Not surprising as this small company, in just a few years since its move from New York, is at the pinnacle of Philadelphia’s outstanding dance community. The program, called Autumn Skin: [...]
Here is a sneak peak at two new offerings coming to the Painted Bride for the 2010 season of dance… How am I Not Myself – Miro Dance Theater Amanda Miller and Viji Rao challenge the boundaries of modern and traditional Indian dance in In How am I not Myself? Together with Tobin Rothlein’s video [...]
