NY choreographer Sam Kim in open rehearsal of new work with Zenon Dance Co--free

Free over lunch hour on a Friday? Free fall season preview opportunity; preview choreographer Sam Kim’s new work for Zenon Dance Company.
What: Sam Kim: Free Open Rehearsal.
When: Friday, September 21, 2018, noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Studio 4A, Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis
Free and open to the public.

Zenon Dance Company’s groundbreaking approach to eclectic and virtuoso contemporary dance, and its support of emerging choreographers, continues this season with a premiere by New York choreographer Sam Kim. Please join us during Sam Kim’s open rehearsal of her work-in-progress with Zenon on Friday, September 21, 2018, noon to 1:00 p.m. Zenon will premiere Sam’s work at the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, during the company’s 36th Fall Season.

Zenon Dance Company’s 36th Fall Season
Fridays and Saturdays, November 2-3, 9-10, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 11—2 p.m.
The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts
Tickets: $34 (fees included)

About the choreographer:
Sam Kim has received commissions for original work from The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, Mulberry St Theater and Performance Space 122. Kim’s work has also been presented nationally by other progressive venues such as Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), Studio 303 (Montréal), the Unknown Theater (Los Angeles), Bryant Lake Bowl Theater (Minneapolis), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Galapagos Art and Performance Space and Movement Research, among many others.

Kim's work has been supported by grants from organizations such as the Lucky Star Foundation (2009), the MAP Fund (2006) and the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation (2004). Kim was a Spring 2010 Dance Theater Workshop Outer/Space Creative Resident at Brazil, a 2007-09 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Dance Artist-in-Residence and a 2004-05 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She has also received space grants from the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2002) and the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Center (2001).

Kim has been awarded residencies at New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013-14), Movement Research (2013-14), Baryshnikov Arts Center (Fall, 2013) Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2013) Baryshnikov Arts Center (Spring, 2013) and The MacDowell Colony (2012) to develop her latest evening-length work, Sister to a Fiend.

Shortly after Kim’s birth in Seoul, Korea, her parents immigrated to the States, eventually settling in Minnesota. When she was 17, via a chance encounter with movement and strong guidance from a ballet teacher, she began to pursue dance. In 1991 she moved to NYC to attend Barnard College, Columbia University where she earned a B.A. in English summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1995. Kim began making dances at 19. She has been committed to the dance form ever since and now lives and works in Brooklyn as a choreographer and performer.

30-50 people attend these open rehearsals, and besides the thrill of seeing the work-in-progress, often there is a Q&A session with the choreographer and/or the dancers directly afterward. Hearing audience comments/questions, and the responses from the performers, is an education in dance appreciation and interpretation.