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Performance artist, writer, and visual artist Dan Kwong’s work springs from his life experiences to explore the personal, the historical, the social and the unspeakable. With keen insight and a generous sense of humor, he intertwines storytelling, multimedia, dynamic physical movement, poetry, martial arts and music. From Inner Worlds… is a multimedia program. It is a compilation of his most powerful pieces and arresting imagery.
DAN KWONG is a veteran performance artist, writer, teacher and visual artist who has been presenting his solo performances since 1989. Hailed by critics as “a master storyteller”, Kwong has performed in venues across the United States and in England, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and Canada. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts performance art fellowship and has been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Art Matters Inc., Brody Arts Fund, Franklin Furnace, N.Y., and Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
Kwong’s essays and performances have been published in The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Getting Your Solo Act Together, High Performance magazine, and various anthologies. In July 2004 he released his first book, a collection of his performance texts entitled, FROM INNER WORLDS TO OUTER SPACE - The Multimedia Performances of Dan Kwong, published by the University of Michigan Press.
Kitchen Theatre Company’s KITCHEN COUNTER CULTURE series brings Central New York the cutting-edge, outside-the-box, bold, uncensored work of writer/performers who are fearless in their convictions and daring in their presentations. The series celebrates new voices and diverse approaches to the act of performance with artists who are breaking rules and breaking new ground.
This season the series highlights five artists of color. Coming up next in the series is Tina Lee’s funny tale of family and cultures - My Mom Across America, then Trinidadian performance poet Roger Bonair-Agard with Masquerade: Poems of Calypso and Home. The series concludes with Peruvian actress Teresa Ralli’s performance, in Spanish, of José Watanabe’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Funded by New York State Council on the Arts and sponsored by Foster Custom Kitchens.
Performance Dates:
October 6, 2006, Friday at 8:00 pm
October 7, 2006, Saturday at 8:00 pm
October 8, 2006, Sunday at 4:00 pm
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