Development history: 2014 Mabou Mines Artist in Residence program, led by Sharon Fogarty, Joanne Akalaitis and David Neumann. June 2022: Dixon Place's "Fast Forward" Dance series with Zoe Stewart.
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Soomi Kim is a NYC based actor/movement artist and has conceived (co-devised with director Suzi Takahashi) a trilogy of work based on visionary Asian Americans Bruce Lee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Kathy Change. Chang(e) was developed through the HERE Artist in Residency Program (2012-2015). Dickes: bells fall a peal to sky (adaptation of Cha's Dictee) premiered at Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival in 2012. Lee/gendax (2008) ran at HERE Arts Center's main stage. Kim's autobiographical solo show, MLCG (My Little China Girl) was commissioned by Dixon Place (2017). Recent work: Body Through Which the Dream Flows New Ohio Theatre's Ice Factory 2022 and The Tank 2022). Selected residencies & awards: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) A.I.R. 2024, Berkley Rèp's Ground Floor A.I.R. (2023), Deceleration Lab Artist (2022), CRS grantee (2022), Orchard Project's Greenhouse Lab Artist (2020-21), Marble House A.I.R. (2019), Mabou Mines A.I.R.(2014). Kim has been featured in the NYTimes, The New Yorker, TimeOut NY, Huffington Post, Korea Times and MIT Press: The Drama Review. As an actor, she has worked extensively in theater, indie film, web series and live industrials. Work in development with collaborators Peter Kim and Sunny Hitt: GUT (7). www.soomikim.com
Laura Peterson is the Artistic Director of Open Arts Studio in Brooklyn. She is a choreographer and installation artist. Her work explores the visceral exchange between moving bodies and the materials used in her performance environments. She creates large structures and paintings as mediums to express her interest in the intersection of physicality and the world around us. Peterson's work is focused on nature, and the climate emergency that threatens all life. SOLO, Peterson's performance and large scale paintings, was included in The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done at the ludson Dance Theater Reassembled event in NYC. Her dances have been presented at venues including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Out-of- Doors, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, and throughout New York City. Internationally, her work has been produced in Argentina, Europe, and Russia. Laura has been awarded residencies and commissions for the last 15 years, most recently a 2021 Choreography Commission for Individual Artist from NYSCA for Interglacial at Dixon Place. Her commissions include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Queens Museum, Dixon Place and DNA. Residencies include HERE Artist Residency Program. Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, Marble House Project, Subsirsle Jamaica Center for the Arts.
TESTING²
Created and Directed - Soomi Kim
Performed - Laura Peterson and Soomi Kim
Choreography - Laura Peterson
Lighting - Lucrecia Briceno and Emmanuel Delgado
Set Design and Costumes - Laura Peterson
Sound Design - Soomi Kim
Original Music - Adam Rogers
Stage Manager - Monica Athenas
December 5th-December 15th, 2024
In Testing², theatre maker Soomi Kim and choreographer Laura Peterson weave together snippets of epic rants, meltdowns, meanderings, musings, tantrums and other sound bites from recording sessions and bootlegged recordings of famous musicians. Peterson and Kim toggle the lines between the ridiculous, the profound moments of brilliance, and the absurd spaces in between.
