Description:

Final Performance of Dohee Lee's artist residency with Students and the Global Pungmul Institute.

A final group performance inspired by Korean-based ritual movement and ideas around myth-making to explore connections to one’s cultural roots, personal and communal identity, and the land—with accompaniment by a local traditional Korean drum troupe.

Note: Undergraduate and graduate students should sign up for the "Approach to the Performative in Creativity and Healing" prepatory workshops on May 7, May 9, and May 11. Details here: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/533370

Other events during Dohee Lee's residency:

May 5 - Village vs. Empire - film screening and solo performance.

May 7, 9 and 11 - Student workshops in movement and storytelling.

About Dohee Lee
Korean diasporic multimedia performance artist Dohee Lee will be artist in residence at Northwestern from May 5-12, 2018. Born on Jeju Island, South Korea, Lee trained at the master-level in music and dance styles rooted in Korean shamanism. Since moving to Oakland in 1998, she has become an award-winning traditional and contemporary arts performer, collaborating with Kronos Quartet, Anna Halprin, and many others. A 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lee weaves her multiple virtuosities in drumming, dancing, and singing into immersive ritualized theatrical creations.

Dohee Lee's residency is co-sponsored by The Alumnae of Northwestern University, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Asian American Studies Program, Critical Studies in Theatre and Performance Cluster, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, Initiative for Comparative Race and Diaspora, and the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama.