I met Sunhwa Chung and the dancers of her Ko-Ryo Dance Theater a few weeks ago at Dance New Amsterdam. Seeing the potential for a really nice photoshoot and knowing Sunhwa had booked DNA's sunlit and lovely large studio for Sunday April 29th, I asked Kokyat to come with me and take a million photos. We had a great time working with these dancers, and after taking some headshots we were treated to a costumed run-thru of two of Sunhwa's works: "Arirang: Dong-Hwang: We Go Beyond the Crossroad" and "The City from The Sky: Coming Together". Finally, each dancer took a turn improvising in the columned studio.
Here by way of introduction are the Ko-Ryo dancers:
Stephanie Lau
Stephanie
Ju Hwan Hwang
Ju Hwan
Lizzy Zevallos
Lizzy
Hye Jeong Son
Hye Jeong
Yuki Ishiguro
Yuki
Lindsay Poulis
Lindsay
All photos by Kokyat. More about this rehearsal here.
Ko-Ryo Dance Theater will be performing in Washington DC on May 11th and 12th, and they'll be having a New York City season this Autumn.