Thank you all for a SOLD OUT SEASON of STELLA !
Isadora Wolfe and David Thomson in STELLA Photo: Julieta Cervantes"If you're incapable of being mesmerized by Muna Tseng's Stella, you're dead from the neck up and the neck down. Stella is, by turns, powerfully seductive and discomfiting. To Stella and to Tseng--You go, girl!" Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Dance Critic, Infinite Body Blog, May 7, 2011 full review here
"In STELLA, Muna Tseng tries to get under the skin of her mother, a stylish woman who had a sharp tongue - and said memorable things like, "The biggest waste in life in time." Three versions of Stella are embodied in the dancers David Thomson, Rebecca Warner and Isadora Wolfe. In a funny, passive-aggressive twist - because Stella would probably not approve - Mr. Thomson, an African-American man, is the most convincing... Ms. Warner and Ms. Wolfe slipping into figure-hugging dresses that give their bodies an instant languor. Their way of floating through space mirrors the choregoraphic sensibility of Wong Kar-wai in his film "In the Mood for Love." Mr. Thomson reminiscing and moving with a certain offhand grace... throughout a tension persists between speech and movement. In this hazy exploration of memory and legacy, Ms. Tseng asks, What do possessions reveal about a life?"
Gia Kourlas, Dance Critic, The New York Times, May 7, 2011
"STELLA is a beautifully crafted piece. Minimally staged, fashion chic, funny, touching, sad....
The performance is delivered in a deconstructed way, characters are revealed in multi media, through different sensory modes...the audience perceives a whole through the contributing parts. Stella may not have approved about how much she was revealed." Susan Osberg, Choreographer and Writer
"What could be more complex than our relationships with our mothers?
The signature elegance of Muna Tseng’s choreography is well suited to Stella’s story… a sensitive and telling entry into the mind of this very 20th century woman.
The eye with which Stella is written and choreographed is a compassionate and forgiving eye, a mature and unvarnished appraisal of a woman’s gifts and weaknesses. We are charmed and surprised as Muna dances a delicious ending, stepping into the spotlight to carry this mother story lovingly to its inevitable finale…a fitting final tribute to Muna’s brilliant, inventive, intimate portrait of her mother." Ragnar Naess, Ceramic Artist, Arts Cross-Over, Writer, full review hereRead Katy Gray's interview with Muna on Stella for BOMBLOG here
Read Jane Jung's interview with Muna on Stella for CULTUREBLOT here
Upcoming Stella News:Dance Magazine (June) Brooklyn Rail (June)
Edited DVD of full performance $25 USD (mid-June)
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Muna Tseng in STELLA Photo: Thomas Dunn
STELLA a residency program of excerpts, exhibition and workshop will be performed as part of Goteborg Art Biennale, Sweden on September 14, 15, 16, 2011 at Karat 24. www.3vaningen.se
Isadora Wolfe, Rebecca Warner (left) Isadora Wolfe (center) Rebecca Warner (right) Photos: Julieta Cervantes
STELLA
A new full-length dance theater work choreographed and directed by Muna Tseng featuring David Thomson, Muna Tseng, Rebecca Warner, Isadora Wolfe. Dramaturgy by Ong Keng Sen. Light Design by Thomas Dunn. Costume design: vintage Hong Kong 1960's & Bonnie Tchien Hy.
World premiere: May 5, 6, 7, 2011
Presented by Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York
Photo: Muna Tseng
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A Dance-Theater Work Captured On Video
Presented By The Bronx Museum Of The Arts, New York, April 8, 2011 from 6-8pm.
Join us for a special screening of the video of the New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) award-winning visual dance-theater solo performance by Muna Tseng, on the life and work of Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990).
The screening includes a companion piece: "East Meets West" (dir. Christine Lombard). A Q&A follows the screening with the collaborators: Muna Tseng (Choreographer-dancer) and Ping Chong (Director), and Alexandra Chang (A/P/A Institute) and Sergio Bessa (Bronx Museum of the Arts, Director of Programs).
http://www.bronxmuseum.org/events.phphttp://www.nyu-apastudies.org/new/event.php?type=1_event&event_id=314
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Read the feature profile "Soloist: Muna Tseng" in Inside Arts magazine, published by Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP)
