<x-flowed>Performance Announcement: Please forward to anyone interested! Koala Yip will be presenting a 3-part dance poem in the Performance Studies International Conference 2000 at the Arizona State university. The performance will be broadcasted live on the internet. Please "tune in" to join us: Date: March 11, Saturday, 5:15 pm (USA Pacific time - Arizona) Cyber link to Video Web Cast: http://isa.asu.edu/psi/webcast.html PSI 2000 - Visceral & Virtual Performance from Myth to Millennium DANCE POEM by Koala Yip Episodes include: Floating Skin, Manuscript via Scenario & Write on Painting Concept/Choreographer/Performer: Koala Yip Visual Designer/Art & Video Installation: Alan Van Leuven Composer & Soundscape Creator: Edward Niecikowsk Koala Yip is originally from Hong Kong. She involves intensively with interactive digital media as new performing art language. Her dance works merge with modern technology, pursuing clarity and integrity in artistic expression. Her major works have been presented by the International Dance And Technology Conference (IDAT99) at Arizona State University, the 7th Symposium on Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, UCLA Hammers Museum, the Ford Ampitheatre, Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, Arts Mahattan, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 98', MIT/CalArts Collaboration of Wearable Technology, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE), the Hong Kong Independent Dance Series, the Highways and Side Street Projects. She toured through France, China, Korea and the United States, and has been involved in dance videos screened in Italy and Spain. Koala was the teaching assistant of Video Dance and Digital Dance classes at the California Institute of the Arts, and produced promotion video for the CalArts Dance School international recruitment. She also assisted in video documentations at the America Dance festival under supervision of Mr. Douglas Rosenberg. Koala graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a BFA, and received her MFA in Integrated Media/Dance Program at the California Institute of the Arts, through the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Fellowship. She was also the recipient of major funds include the Asian Cultural Council, Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation, the Integrated Media Merit Scholarship, the Director's Prize (HKAPA), the Standard Chartered Foundation, Hausamman Scholarship, and had won the Best Performance Award in the "Bauhina Cup" Hong Kong Dance Championship. Before her stay in Los Angeles, Koala is the artistic director of the Hong Kong Dance Theatre and Co-founder of Moving Garden. Recently, she is member of the TRIP Dance Theatre and the Bridge Dance Theatre. She is also a freelance web designer, specializing in digital imaging and multi-media production. Alan Van Leuven has soild background in theatre design, technical direction, and art installation. He was on technical staff at the California Institute of the Arts, art director for Writers Guild of America and numberous television productions in Hollywood. He works in digital video projects in New York and Amsterdam. Ed Niecikowsk received his B.F.A. in Music Technology and an M.F.A. in Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts. He has composed and sound designed numerous works in Dance, Film and Theater. Currently he teaches Sound for Experimental Animation at CalArts, C.G.I., at Antelope Community College, and pursues a career as a composer and sound designer in Los Angeles California. . For more information please check out http://isa.asu.edu/psi ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com </x-flowed>
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