MOVERS & SHAPERS: A DANCE PODCAST

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Jody Oberfelder is a director, choreographer, and filmmaker. Her most recent work, Zaubernacht, is a fairy tale, a commission by the Kurt Weill Foundation.  Upcoming are two ‘conversation’ pieces: On the Move Shortly,to be performed at St. Pancras Staion July 29, 2018 in London. Together with dramaturg Katalin Trencsényi, this devised piece gathers material from conversations that feed directly to the dance.  Things,(August 2018)is acollaboration with the Brisbane, Australian quintet Topology, who specialize in creating music from speech patterns and melody. Other immersive work: 4Chambers, (2013-14) a piece about the heart, was performed in an historic home on Governors Island and in a former hospital and The Brain Piece(2015-18)achoreographed experience: a union of movement, film, neuroscience and sound, giving audiences an interactive opportunity to engage with their minds in motion. The third of this trilogy: Madame Ovary, tackles the body as a site of intuition, agency, and birth?  Castle Walk, a danced-through tour of a Baroque Palace in Portugal (Fall 2017) was created in collaboration with Arte Total in Braga, Portual.

Oberfelder has been a guest teacher at Bryn Mawr University, Temple University, University of Hawaii, New York University, Middlebury College, Wayne State University, Moravian College, and Alfred University.  She has been awarded a Joyce Theater Residency, a New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD Grant, and funding from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her company, Jody Oberfelder Projects (JOP), has performed internationallyMuseu dos Biskeínhos (Braga, Portugal), NoD (Prague), Gallus Theater Guelph Dance Festival, Centre National de la Danse in Paris, Die Werkstatt in Dusseldorf, The Pusan National Theater in Korea, The 20th Annual International Festival of Modern Dance in Seoul, and The Belgrade Dance Festival (with performances at The Belgrade State Theater in Serbia and the State Theater of Montenegro in Podorica) to Jacob’s Pillow, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Dance New Amsterdam, MASS MoCA, Washington College, and The Yard in Martha’s Vineyard. As dance filmmaker, Oberfelder has created nine films: Dance of the Neurons, Come Sit Stay, Head First, Duet, Chance Encounters, LineAge, Rapt, Dizzy Memoir and Snew.These films have been shown at Short to the Point Festival, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Dance Camera West, Cannes Short Film Festival, The Fargo Film Festival,The Dance on Camera Festival, Cinedans (Amsterdam and the London Dance Film Festival FRAME  Oberfelder also has choreographed/ movement directed with photographer Steven Meisel for Versace, Chloé, Prada, in addition to commercials for Guerlian Perfume (with Hillary Swank), and Danskin.

Oberfelder’s honors include two The Starry Night Foundation (spanning 1999-2018), Two New Music USA grants (2015, 2011), funding from Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (spanning 2008-2018), CEC Artslink (2007, 2016), a Joyce SoHo Residency (2008), a NYFA BUILD Grant (2009), NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (2007-2013), and being voted “Outstanding Choreographer” in the FringeNYC Festival (2009.)

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Dr. Hannah Kosstrin is a dance historian whose work engages dance, Jewish, and gender studies, modes of movement analysis, and digital projects. She is on the faculty of the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University and is affiliated with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies. She is author of Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow(Oxford University Press, 2017), which was awarded Finalist (second place) for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of Jews and the Arts. Her work also appears in Dance Research Journal, Dance Chronicle, The International Journal of Screendance, Dance on Its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies(ed. Bales and Eliot), Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings(ed. Croft), and The Futures of Dance Studies(ed. Manning, Ross, and Schneider). She is Faculty Lead for the HoloLens augmented reality dance scoring application LabanLens supported by Ohio State, and Project Director for the dance scoring iPad app KineScribe supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Reed College, and Ohio State. Kosstrin has served the boards of the Society of Dance History Scholars, Congress on Research in Dance, and Dance Studies Association. She previously taught at Reed College, Wittenberg University, and Ohio University Pickerington Center, and worked with Columbus Movement Movement (cm²), which was named one ofDance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2007.

A pioneer of “Hallyu: Korean Wave”, Young Soon Kim, an internationally acclaimed choreographer whose work has been hailed for its exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich phrases and textures.

Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (New York) strives to inspire audiences through multi- dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. For nearly three decades, Ms. Kim and WHITE WAVE have appeared globally on principal stages including Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance Festival, National Theater of Seoul (Korea), National Theater of Taipei (Taiwan), Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts, as well as Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Maison de la Culture in Le Havre, France; Teatro Nazionale in Milan, Teatro Tendu Striscie in Rome, Italy;

Schauspielhaus in Cologne, Germany; as well as the Festival d’Avignon in Avignon, France, among others. In 2003 Ms. Kim was featured in the documentary film Arirang: The Korean American Journey, which was premiered at the Smithsonian Institute and broadcasted nationwide by PBS. In 2013 and 2014, Ms. Kim was nominated twice for the Annual KBS Global Korean Award.

In addition, Ms. Kim has been one of the most recognized producers/curators in New York City through WHITEWAVE’s three Annual Dance Festivals: DUMBO Dance Festival, Wave Rising Series and CoolNY Dance Festival. Kim also served as a juror for New York City Department of City Affairs in 2006 and for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2014. Currently, Mr. Kim serves as a member of The Bessie Presenter League for the past three years.

Over the years, WHITE WAVE DANCE’s wide press coverage, both here and abroad, has included features for WWOR-TV Channel 9’s 10 o’clock News and Fox 5 TV’s Good Day New York, PBS Channel 13’s NYC-ARTS. During its 60-day tour of the Far East in 1996, Ms. Kim was interviewed by CNN’s Inside Asia, which aired internationally. In 2012, WHITE WAVE’s 16-member ensemble toured Korea performing “Here Now So Long” and “SSOOT,”featuring live music and video art, in Seoul, Gwangju, and Sungnam. KBS-TV captured our performance, airing in August 2012, in Korea’s version of PBS “Great Performances.”

After featured at the 2017 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, WHITE WAVE Dance’s Canadian Première of “iyouuswe” at the 2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival was a resounding success!

The Georgia Straight’s Gail Johnson raved that “This beautifully crafted piece…present[s] moments of subtle tension, but it pulses most profoundly with harmony.” “In duets, trios, and other ever-shifting configurations, things unfurl organically; there’s a natural, poetic rhythm here that hums beneath, as if to imply things are unfolding as they should—whether it’s within a couple or the universe itself.”