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THE BOXER SERIES expresses a unique Asian American and African American fusion inspired by American boxing, Asian martial arts, and urban street dance. The dances pay homage to iconic figures, including Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali, and their spirit of fighting for social justice and transformation, wherein, as Muhammad Ali says, "the will must be stronger than the skill."
The series includes "Yelllowwww Matriarch" (a matriarchal seer struggles to prepare the way for future generations) and "Power Moves" (a duet an expression of Bruce Lee's notion of "form beyond form") |
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TRUTH & LIVES SERIES:
PASSAGE OF ORACLES
Journeys of the spirit and Afro-Asian oracles come together through stories of unsung heroines and heroes—an enslaved African woman in the bowels of a middle passage ship, Chinese railway workers set dynamite dangling in baskets high in the Sierra Nevadas, Choy's own grandmother crosses an icy river from Korea into China with Japanese policy in pursuit, and a homage to John Henry.
DANCING MEMORY: TRUTH & LIVES (Lecture-Demonstration)
Choy talks about her motivation of seeking transformation and justice through the body in motion—focusing on the narratives of the unsung, speaking the unspeakable for the dead, as well as for the forgotten living. Referencing the diverse inspirations for her dances, she gives insight into the anatomy of intercultural fusion. She performs her two signature dances, Comfort Woman and Seung Hwa: Liberation After Great Suffering, and other recent work in this lecture-demonstration.
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WOMEN'S SERIES:
KI-ACHÉ: STORIES FROM THE BELLY
Afro-Asian women-centered stories about the 16th century female entertainer Nongae of Jinju, Korea, the 19th century Hausa queen Sarraounia, and 20th century Black Panther Assata Shakur, and the Korean political activist Kwon In Sook.
GATELESS GATE: WOMEN OF THE SCARRED EARTH
Inspired by "Roshomon," the short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, an old woman shaman sees from the past into the future through the lives of women warriors on an embattled earth scarred by war and environmental decay.
SEUNG HWA: RAPE/RACE/RAGE/REVOLUTION
A danced journey from suffering to liberation through 4 solos by Peggy Choy--Picture Bride/Sajin Shinbu, Eun Chong Kerr, Comfort Woman and Seung Hwa: Liberation After Great Suffering—the two dances that have become Choy's signature pieces.
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