Wednesday, June 30, 10-11:15AM PDT, Free
Join us on ONLINE as we gather our voices to sing together as a community and send our love song and dance to Anna Halprin. Dohee Lee will hold our ritual space and guide us to tune our bodies as instruments to create a dance; our voices as instruments to create a song. Through our breath and heartbeat, our body instruments will bridge to each other and beyond so that our song and dance can celebrate Anna’s incredible life and legacy.
Watch a recording of the event here.
Dohee Lee, RSME
Born on Jeju Island in South Korea, Dohee Lee studied Korean dance, music, percussion and vocals at the master level in Korea, and trained at Tamalpa. Since her arrival in the US she has been a vital contributor to both the traditional and contemporary arts landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Lee founded the Puri Project in 2004 to present interdisciplinary works that embrace the ritualistic and healing aspects of performance. She has performed in venues and festivals around the world, collaborated with leading artists and has received numerous awards including Guggenheim fellowship, Herb Alpart, Doris Duke Impact Award, Creative Capital and the Isadora Duncan Special Award honoring Outstanding Achievement. Artist residencies include the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, the Watermill Center in New York with the Degenerate ArtEnsemble, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Paul Dresher Artist Residency Center, and the Montalvo Arts Center. In 2010, she appeared at Carnegie Hall with Kronos Quartet, performing her original composition, Sinawi and at Teatro Municipal de Lima in Peru with Pauchi Sasaki and Collective in “MURU”.
Lee is artistic director of PURI Arts and instructor at the Korean Youth Cultural Center from 2002 to 2008, resident artist and instructor at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center from 2008 to 2011, has been a guest instructor at San Francisco State University, Saint Mary’s College, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside and Northern Illinois University.
If you’d like to leave a message in memory of Anna you can do so on the Dedications page of the website Tamalpa created in her honor.
In 2015, for her 95th birthday, Anna wrote: “One of my strongest wishes is for the success of the Tamalpa ArtCorps, a program that carries out a vision that has always been central to my work: dance as a healing and peace-making force for people all over the world.” Donations in honor of the memory of Anna can be made to Tamalpa Institute’s ArtCorps HERE.
