FLOWER OF THE SEASON 2022 FALL
"Life in the darkness, flashing light"
Hyoin Jun, Dani Lunn, Carole Kim, Destefano DeLuise, DaEun Jung
Friday, October 28. 8:00 PM SATURDAY, October 29, 8:00 PM SUNDAY, October 30, 3:00PM
Admission: $ 15
Ticket Link: TBA
ELECTRIC LODGE
1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, CA 90291. Free parking at Electric Lodge
Body Weather Laboratory presents Flower of the Season 2022. Continuing a 21-year tradition of minimal yet encompassing the use of space and theatricality, this year’s performances will feature Los Angeles Choreographers/performers Hyoin Jun, Dani Lunn, Carole Kim, Destefano DeLuise, DaEun Jung
Dani Lunn is a Los Angeles based intercultural and multidisciplinary artist whose current work explores the interrelationship between sound and movement. Holding a certification in Deep Listening®, her practice is grounded in dance, ritual theatre and music, including a BFA in Dance at CalArts and independent study in Bahia, Brazil. She is currently co-facilitating Rainbow Body Matrix in residence at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA and grateful to be part of the Deep Listening community.
Hyoin Jun is a co-artistic director of Goblin Party, a dance performing group, and actively working as a freelance dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor.
Jun has finished the Experimental Choreography program (MFA) at University of California, Riverside (UCR) in December 2017. Jun also received an M.A. degree in Physical Education (in 2014) and a B.A. degree in Dance (in 2012) from Chung-Ang University (CAU), Korea.
Jun has actively attended and won in international dance competitions, including Jury Award, Sibiu International Dance Competition, Rumania (2011); Bronze Medal, Novosibirsk International Dance Competition, Russia (2010); and Gold Medal, Berlin International Dance Competition TANZOLYMP, Germany (2010). Furthermore, Jun has performed on both international and local stages, such as the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Closing Ceremony on behalf of Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, at the Olympic Stadium, Sochi, Russia.
DaEun Jung is a Los Angeles-based choreographer/dancer who interlaces forms, principles, and methods of her ancestral and contemporary performance practices. Jung’s work has been supported by Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP), REDCAT, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CultureHub LA, Pieter Performance Space, Highways, Electric Lodge, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Korea Foundation. She has been awarded residencies from L.A. Dance Project, Brockus Project Dance, Camera Obscura Art Lab, Dance Resource Center, and Show Box LA, as well as Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) Forward Dialogues 2019 and 2022 Loghaven Artist Residency. As a dancer, Jung has worked and performed at MANCC (FL, 2019), Jacob’s Pillow (MA, 2020), and New York Live Arts (NY, 2020, 2022), REDCAT (CA, 2021), and the Momentary (AR, 2022) in Milka Djordjevich’s CORPS.
A master artist of the 2019 Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and 2019-2020 Cultural Trailblazer of City of Los Angeles Department Cultural Affairs, Jung has redefined the practice and repertoire of Korean dance in inter/multi-cultural settings as a continuation of her MFA in choreography at UCLA (2018) where she was a Westfield Emerging Artist. As a full-time dancer of Gyeonggido Dance Company which is internationally renowned for its large-scale traditional and contemporary Korean dance repertoire, she toured cities and countries in Asia and Europe. Having six years of early conservatory training in dance at the National Gugak School as a recipient of the National Theater of Korea Award, she obtained a BA in dance from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. Jung is currently a lecturer at UCR Dance, teaching contemporary and Korean dance techniques, somatic practice, and dance composition. Her new project Norri, which will be premiered in Fall 2023 in partnership with LAPP, is a finalist of the 2022 National Dance Project Production Grant.
Destefano DeLuise is a director, dancer and musician native of Los Angeles. From age 6, she studied classical dance, but it wasn't until she expanded her practice into other forms of abstract expression that she began to truly open her eyes.
Her work mainly reflects on the notions of emptiness, impermanence, grief, compassion and complex identity, whilst grappling with the many facets of figuring out what it means to exist in a human body and experience the vast ocean of awareness. She aims to push the ideas and limits of understanding waking (and dreaming) reality through simple metaphor, obscure landscapes of sound/imagery and extreme physicality—using suffering and release as instruments to attempt, even just momentarily, to dissolve into the infinite expanse of emptiness. Moments of transition, transformation and mutation (within ourselves and within the natural world) are of great intrigue and inspiration to her process—which has led to an important journey of healing personal trauma and living in service of others. In accompaniment to her training, Destefano volunteers with hospice patients and has worked as a
homebirth midwife's assistant — forever learning from the wisdom of birth, death and the powers of patience, stillness and loving kindness.
She has worked with teachers and choreographers internationally including Yumiko Yoshioka, Yukio Waguri, Natsu Nakajima, Vangeline, Diego Piñon and Atsushi Takenouchi.
Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on multi-media installations, video projection, live and telematic performance and photography. Her work spans diverse contexts including experimental art, music, dance, theater and site-specific installation. With a hands-on, tactile approach to the physical materials she works with, Kim consistently pushes how analog meets digital media to create new intersections of discipline and form.
For over twenty years, Kim has passionately explored how to turn the moving image into a very live, responsive medium at the level of interface, coding and optical phenomena of the interaction of video projection and intricately hand-made layered projection environments. Her work has been described as “3d without the glasses” in response to the unique spatial illusions created without any intermediary gear such as goggles or headsets. It is physics at work. Within these layers, the human body becomes a shadow-casting puzzle, dematerializing one moment and rematerializing the next.
Kim’s work has been supported by Thoughtworks Arts, Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, MAP Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, NowArt LA, Metabolic Studio, City of LA (COLA), Pasadena Arts Council, The Music Center, Durfee Foundation, REDCAT, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, The Getty Center, AutomataLA, SASSAS, Dublab, Newtown, Turbulence.org, CalArts and Descanso Gardens.
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These performances are made possible by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, California Arts Council, Friends of Venice Library, Oregon Community Foundation, the Electric Lodge and our donors.