Upcoming Activities

• Lenora Lee & Corey Chan teach creative movement and dragon dance to youth at Cameron House this summer through a San Francisco Arts Commission Arts & Communities: Innovative Partnerships Exploration grant.
• The release of a short film inspired by “Reflections”.

• LLD’s 5th Anniversary concert season at Dance Mission Theater October 12 – 14, 2012, photo by Robbie Sweeny

Lenora Lee Dance – 5^th Anniversary Season

        Passages: For Lee Ping To (2010) – excerpt

        Reflections (2011)

        Rescued Memories: SF (work in progress excerpt)

with Kei Lun Martial Arts & Enshin Karate, South San Francisco Dojo, featuring media design by Olivia Ting, music by Francis Wong, text by Genny Lim, and videography by Ben Estabrook & Eric Koziol (with direction by Tatsu Aoki)

Friday & Saturday, October 12^th & 13^th, 8pm and Sunday, October 14^th, 3:30pm

Dance Mission Theater – 3316 – 24^th St @ Mission, SF, CA  94110

Venue info: www.dancemission.com

Admission: $15-25 in advance online, $20-25 at the door

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/265448

More info: www.LenoraLeeDance.com or email Lenora@asianimprov.org

These 5^th Anniversary performances share a breadth and extension Lenora’s large scale interdisciplinary work.  This newest piece Rescued Memories: SF completes a trilogy of works addressing key experiences in the Chinese American narrative. Passages: For Lee Ping To (2010) tells the story of Lee’s grandmother’s immigration through Angel Island during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act. It utilizes historical documents as source material and includes transcripts of Lee Ping To’s interrogation during her incarceration on the island. Reflections (2011), delves into the experiences of 3 generations of men in their search for a sense of place in American society. It addresses the struggle for dominance and survival, the pursuit of wisdom, and ultimately the quest for peace. Rescued Memories: SF  is inspired by stories of women who had become vulnerable upon arrival into the U.S. during the early 20^th Century. The project seeks to shed light on the experiences of these women in the context of the social history of the period for Chinese in America as well as for women in the society as a whole with the struggles and achievements of the 20^th Century Women’s Movement, which took on such issues as child labor and human trafficking.

These works were developed through the support of Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center, Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, Cameron House, de Young Museum, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Asian Women’s Shelter, San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, and the CounterPULSE Artist Residency Commissioning Program.

Also supported by Zellerbach Family Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Grants For the Arts/SF Hotel Tax Fund, WKK Donor-Advised Fund, San Francisco Foundation, and Individual Donors.

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Lenora Lee Dance celebrates its 5^th Anniversary Season in New York as part of  WHITE WAVE and WAVE RISING SERIES  – Program F.

PROGRAM F DESCRIPTION
Lenora Lee Dance (CA) “The Escape”
MADboots dance co. (NJ) “ALL GOOD SONS”
Jennifer Mellor Dance Project (NY) “Love/Lost”
SunHeon Dance Company (Korea) “Into the Korea”

Wednesday, October 31st, 7:30pm (preview excerpt)

Friday & Sunday, November 2^nd & 4^th, 7:30pm

Saturday, November 3^rd, 4pm

WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St, Suite 100, Brooklyn, NY  11201

Info: www.whitewavedance.com, or email Lenora@asianimprov.org

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/262153

The Escape  by Lenora Lee Dance with Kei Lun Martial Arts & Enshin Karate, South San Francisco Dojo, featuring media design by Olivia Ting, music by Francis Wong, and videography directed by Tatsu Aoki / shot by Ben Estabrook & Eric Koziol.