Created and Conceived by Chaesong Kim
Showtimes
Thursday, March 24, 2022, 8 PM
Friday, March 25, 2022, 8 PM
Saturday, March 26, 2022, 2 PM
Saturday, March 26, 2022, 8 PM
Sunday, March 27, 2022, 2 PM
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present She Walks The Air IX by current student Chaesong Kim.
Performing joy as resistance, can one heal through anger?
“She walks the air” is a line cut out from a Japanese Avant Garde theater artist’s minimalist depiction of war, life, death and sex: Ota Shogo’s The Water Station. Incredibly humbled by the breathtaking beauty of this non western canon, and equally dissatisfied by its hyper eroticization of the female body, and failure to acknowledge colonization, She Walks the Air has been refusing to land since 2017, incessantly morphing in its shape. With more than 40 cumulative international collaborators, She Walks the Air has been a site specific performance installation at Bearnstow in Maine, multi media performance at Green Street Studios in Boston, fabric art at SAIC in Chicago, audience interactive performance at MERDE in NYC, multidisciplinary experiment at Seoul Dance Center in South Korea, animation at EstroGenius Festival in NYC, and an ensemble ritual in Columbia University. We invite you to the ninth iteration of this soft imaginative intervention in flux, where we expand “her walk” to not only walking in the air, like walking on the road, but also walking the air, like walking a dog.
Content Warning
Please be aware that this production contains talk of war and colonization.
Running Time
90 minutes, no intermission
Featuring
Ariel Urim Chung, Anthony Sertel Dean, Willow Green, Begum “Begsy” Inal, Chaesong Kim, Ari LaMora, Anuka Sethi, Sarazina Stein, and Noa Toledano.
Production Team & Crew
Director Chaesong Kim (student), in collaboration with the ensemble
Producers Zhiwei Ma (student) and Yining (Vivian) Cao (student)
Production Stage Manager Emma Hughes (student)
Assistant Stage Manager Jonah Yoder (student)
Interactive Experience Designers Andrew Agress (student), Kanika Vaish (student) and Phoebe Brooks (student)
Scenic Designer Hsin-Ho Yang
Costume Designer Karen Boyer
Lighting Designer Christopher Wong
Sound Designer Anthony Sertel Dean (student)
Projection Designer Vivienne Shaw
Props Designer Begum “Begsy” Inal* and Hyoju Cheon
Vocal Advisor Samita Sinha
Somatic Advisor Fana Fraser
Company Manager Gabriel Szajnert (student)
Past Collaborators Darby Davis, Divyamaan Sahoo, Ellen Oliver, Eva Wang (student), Fiona Gorry-Hines (student), Julie Moon, Liz Peterson (student), Siting Yang (student), Sophie Kovel, Victoria Awkwards, 김대기, 김성연, 김영민, 권용진, 류정문, 베튤, 서상현, 한재석, 떵샤
About the Artist
김채송 / Chaesong Kim (she/they) was born and raised by two social activists who were a part of the student-led democratic revolution and labor rights movement in South Korea. Often subconsciously, they were fueled by a kind rage towards hierarchy, oppressive system and colonization. Recently, they have been recontextualizing such dissatisfaction as love – taking care, taking time, noticing, and holding space. They deeply identify with the inheritance of “in-between” spaces, and celebrate transcendence through an embodied communal practice. Most recently their work has been a part of Seoul Dance Center’s CO-Choreo LAB, EstroGenius Festival, Ping Chong + Company's Nocturne in 2020, and La MaMa E.T.C. They have also performed in Okwui Okpokwasili's Sitting on a Man's Head, and Samita Sinha's Infinity Folds at Danspace, and Claire Chase’s Density 2036 with Constellation Chor at The Kitchen.
