BreAking | P is For Pop and D is For Dip
Program B
BreAking
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company
Choreographed by Lee Kyungeun
South Korea
P is For Pop and D is For Dip
By Kia LaBeija
Original Score by DonChristian Jones
Creative Direction by Taína Larot
Produced by MusmGftshp
Starring Kia LaBeija and Lerone Bennett
NYC
Tickets for Program B: BreAking and P is For Pop and D is For Dip are Pay-What-You-Wish, ranging from $15 to $120 per ticket.
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BreAking
“Don’t fit myself into the world. Do it the other way around!” Contemporary dance, street dance and traditional Korean music combine to break the rules.
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company and next-gen choreographer Lee Kyungeun urge you to break away and be the creator of your own rhythm. BreAking brings together a virtuosic team of artists who imagine, play, and deconstruct the world as they break-up, mix-up, and shake-up the status quo. With music by Lee Ilwoo, of the traditional Korean folk, post-rock band Jambinai, and featuring five contemporary dancers and three top street dancers (including the amazing DROP of Go Junyoung/ Uptown Family), BreAking will transport you to a fantastic new reality where rules are made to be broken.
P is For Pop and D is For Dip
Pop, Dip and Spin, referred to as The Old Way, is the original art form known as Voguing. P is For Pop and D is For Dip, a theatrical work created by Artist Kia LaBeija, honors the legacy of Voguing through a colorful conversation between two friends. Kia co-stars with acclaimed Ballroom Legend Lerone Bennett, who most recently appeared as a Principal Dancer in Ryan Murphy’s drama POSE. Creative direction by Taína Larot and original score by multimedia artist DonChristian Jones. This is a World Premiere work commissioned by PAC NYC for Motion/Matter.
BreAking photo: Aidan Hwang, provided by KNCDC.
Kia Michelle Benbow
Choreographer – P is For Pop and D is For Dip
Kia Michelle Benbow, known professionally as Kia LaBeija, is an image maker and storyteller born and raised in the heart of New York City, Hell’s Kitchen. She composes theatrical autobiographical works ranging from photography, live performance, text based mediums, and film. She’s presented work at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Tate Modern, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of The City of New York, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The International Center for Photography The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and the Performa ’19 Biennial.
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company
Established in 2010, the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company (KNCDC) is Korea’s only national contemporary dance company. Through dance created in collaboration with artists with exceptional creative capacities, KNCDC aspires to create Korean contemporary dance which tells stories of history, society and daily lives of contemporaneity that can be appreciated across regions and by all generations.
Lee Kyungeun
Choreographer – BreAking
Lee Kyungeun, a choreographer who is strutting the world stage with unique dance ideas and tremendous stage manners. In 1996, Lee won the Rookie of the Year Award with her debut work Wavering Heart, promptly rising to the stardom as ‘a new rebel in the Korean dance circle.’ Subsequently, Lee was also selected as the ‘most promising next-generation choregrapher’ at the age of 29 in a ‘survey on the masters in the dance category’ published by the Dong-A Ilbo in 2003.
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