Photo Credit: Photo of Kim Jones
This rebroadcast of the 2024 Dance Division Symposium features the presentation from Dance Research Fellow, Kim Jones.
Join us online for the rebroadcast of the 2024 Dance Division Symposium where the eighth cohort of Dance Research Fellows presented their work from the acquired collection of the Martha Graham Dance Company.
As a former member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Kim Jones centers her research and choreography on the “lost” elements of modern dance history. These elements include both the work of Choi Seung-Hee, a Korean artist not seen in the west after the division of Korea following the Korean War, as well as Martha Graham’s lost 1935 dance, Imperial Gesture, known only in photos and reviews, costumes, and music. These two artists were mysteriously intertwined: while doing research at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Jones found a program that listed Choi Seung-Hee (listed as Sai Shoki) and Graham on the same program in New York City. Did the two artists converse, dance together, or even collaborate? Jones uses artistic and scholarly methods, as well as her personal background, to reimagine, reinvigorate, stage, and disseminate works of the 20th century, and she animates and speculates about these “lost” elements of dance to reinvigorate their history.
