Dictee

Soomi Kim

June 24, 2011 – 9:00pm

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Photo: Kenny Wong

DICTEE, a new work, is a multi-media dance theater performance based on the text of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal literary collage. Through interchangeable disciplines of spoken text, movement, music, experimental sound and video, performing artists Soomi Kim and Jen Shyu share the stories of brave women who are ordinary, revolutionary, and extraordinary in their common experiences of suffering and transcendence of suffering.

“Soomi Kim is a commanding presence as Bruce Lee. It takes mere seconds to see beyong her gender, and she convincingly portrays one of the most popular male action stars of the 20th Century. Bruce Lee would be proud.” — nytheatre.com, Jason S. Grossman on the piece Lee/gendary