Current projects include choreographing “Antonio’s Song” (by Dael Orlandersmith and Antonio Suarez) for CATF and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. She choreographed the Off Broadway musical, “The Mad Ones” (Kerrigan/ Lowdermilk) (59E59), Bedlam’s “Peter Pan” (Duke Theatre), “Two Gentlemen of Verona” (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), “As You Like It” (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Folger Shakespeare Library), “How to transcend a happy marriage” by Sarah Ruhl (Lincoln Center Theatre), “The Young Ladies of.” (Taylor Mac), “Chang(e)” (Soomi Kim at HERE Arts), and others. as well as her Creative Dance Workshop has been a transformative experience.Īlexandra Beller has been Choreographer for “Sense and Sensibility” (Sheen Center, Judson Gym, Folger Shakespeare Library, American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage), for which she won a Helen Hayes Award, Lortel Nomination, and IRNE nomination for Best Choreography. In 2018 Soomi was invited to give a clinic at the National Gymnastics Congress on Floor Routine Choreography utilizing techniques that she has developed through theatre making, She coined it “Devising Floor.” The same year she was named Coach of the Year at Chelsea Piers, NY and is the founder of GymKim Choreo LLC, a floor choreography and dance service for competitive female gymnasts and coaches. Kim has been featured in the NY Times, Huff Post, Timeout NY, Korea Times, NPR’s WHYY Radio and TDR (the Drama Review). Awards/residencies: The Deceleration Lab Artist (The Assembly Theater), CRS grantee, Orchard Project's Greenhouse Lab (2020-21), Dixon Place commission (2017), HERE A.I.R. ![]() Body Through Which the Dream Flows falls in line with Kim’s inclination to work in a biographical narrative and hybrid forms, using devising techniques to generate choreography and text. Kim’s autobiographical dance theatre show, MLCG (My Little China Girl) was commissioned by Dixon Place (2017) and was awarded with an “Aggy Award” for best solo performance. Lee/gendary ran at HERE Arts Center’s and received a New York Innovative Theater award for Outstanding Production. Dictee: bells fall a peal to sky(dance theatre adaptation of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee) premiered at Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival in 2012. Chang(e) was developed through the HERE Artist in Residency Program (2012-2015). Soomi Kim (she/her) is an actor & movement artist and has conceived (and co-devised with director Suzi Takahashi) a trilogy of work based on under recognized figures Asian American visionaries: Lee/gendary, dictee: bells fall a peal to sky and Chang(e). WRITER, CHOREOGRAPHER, CO-DIRECTOR, and PERFORMER
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