On September 17, 2021, Fort Mason Art presented Kim Ip’s Kindred Swell, a new dance commissioned for the opening night of FORT MASON ART’s Fall 2021 programs. Two videos document the performance and interviews with artists involved in the project.
Working outside in dialogue with the repurposed military site’s built terrain, Ip’s choreography nodded to the bayfront location and the relationship among the five performers: Malia Byrne, Melissa Lewis, Nico Maimon, Ainsley Tharpe, and Nina Wu.
The piece incorporated existing campus art installations as found environments, joining FMCAC’S long history of presenting dance, from the inaugural 1979 performance of the Spiral Dance Samhain ritual (created for the publication launch of Starhawk’s book of the same name); and the 1994 premier of Anna Halprin’s The Grandfather Dance, drawing from her grandfather’s shul prayers; to Maya Stovall’s Theorem no. 1, a city-wide movement piece that took place at Fort Mason Center, the Tenderloin Museum, and CounterPulse.
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The performance marked the opening of the fall art program and preceded a sunset viewing of Shimon Attie’s barge-based video project, Night Watch.
Kim Ip (b. 1992, Wellington, NZ) received a B.A. in Dance from Mills College. Using a highly physical dance vocabulary influenced by release floorwork, hip hop, and pop icons, Ip works to expand creative possibilities for Queer Asian femmes and rethink Asian-ness in a Eurocentric dance world.
On September 17, 2021 Fort Mason Art Presented, Kim Ip, Kindred Swell
Kim Ip:
KrimmIp.com
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