Congrats to Kristine for receiving the Lotos Foundation Prize for Directing! The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences recognizes institutions and individuals working in New York City for distinguished accomplishments and exceptional talent in the arts and sciences.
We're gearing up for our showing of a new play titled MEMORY RETROGRADE on April 28 + 29 which closes our residency time at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. For the past 2 years, we've been creating this brand new piece from scratch and have been working towards this epic 3-part showing. We need your help to put this play up so we can invite folks into the room who can advocate for a full production in New York City in the very near future!
Thanks for supporting our February workshop of Memory Retrograde at Brooklyn Arts Exchange! We learned so much from sharing this material, and we're looking forward to sharing it in full on April 28 + 29. Stay tuned!
Jess Almasy and Ugo Chukwu in Memory Retrograde. Photo by Sasha Arutyunova.
We are thrilled to be joining the Ars Nova family in their inaugural Makers Lab! This lab provides a dynamic group of generative theater artists with individually tailored residencies for the next year, designed to holistically support their careers and develop their new works.
Thanks Ars, can't wait to get started!
Learn more about The Makers Lab and the other resident artists here.
Saturday November 19 @ 4pm
Brooklyn Arts Exchange
421 5th Ave. Studio D
*This event is FREE, but please reserve your seat here
A collaboration between Aoi Lee & Kristine Haruna Lee.
Also featuring Maxwell Cosmo Cramer & Storm Thomas.
Kristine Haruna Lee will be collaborating for the first time with Aoi Lee on a mother-daughter piece. They will be in residency together for two weeks at BAX developing a performance inspired by AL's butoh and KHL's writing. They will begin this process through images rather than conversation, as a way to bypass Japanese-English language barriers between the two of them. They will focus their findings on 'female metamorphosis', and it's relationship to reincarnation, memory, and spaces of 欲 (yoku) or desire.
photo by Jonah Rathkopf
Read a preview piece about "Communing with You" in the Brooklyn Paper
Read an article in The Brooklyn Rail about BAX's 25th Anniversary and the AIR Open Studios by Jess Barbagallo, including excerpts by Kristine Haruna Lee.
““I was really awestruck when she told me of her foray into performance, and all of a sudden we had a shared discourse, we could talk about practice, and most of all I loved hearing on the phone about the rush she’d get when performing. So I had this idea that she should come out to New York for a little while and we could create something together, collaborate beyond our usual mother-daughter relationship,” Lee writes to me. “My mother is Japanese, and I’m, well, it’s complicated because I’m half Japanese, half Taiwanese, and very American and I speak English pretty alright, but my Japanese is stunted at a third grade level. So we’ve always had communication issues, especially growing up. As we’ve been talking about how to work together, we’ve also been talking about creative language, or how to get around language creatively, and we decided to begin the process by sharing only visuals. We’ve been bi-coastal pen pals, but with images we want the work to look like, or images that are inspiring or terrifying to us right now.””
On October 11th, we won one of ten Artist Pay grants from Indie Theater Fund through a drawing of 100+ indie companies based in NYC working with key collaborators of color. Thanks Indie Theater Fund! Become a member to find out more on how to apply for this grant and become part of the community.
Come check out a reading of Kristine's play Suicide Forest on October 18th at 8pm @ The Bushwick Starr. This event is FREE! We'd love to get your feedback. Directed by Aya Ogawa.
Photo credit: Richard Atrero de Guzaman
Aoi Lee and Kristine Haruna Lee will be collaborating for the first time on a mother-daughter piece inspired by AL's butoh choreography and KHL's text. We'll be sharing this piece at BAX's Fall Open Studios on Nov 19, 2016. Stay tuned for more!
photo by Michéle Piesche
Thanks to our 91 backers who supported Dog Gone Day, we were able to reach our Indiegogo goal and support our incredible cast and team. Join us for the shows this weekend at BAX!
We have officially launched our Indiegogo Campaign for Dog Gone Day! We are trying to raise $5000 in 13 days to support performances on April 22 + 23. If you like our work, please consider making a donation!
