SPECIAL EVENT

Appan Festival

The Annex

November 8 - 9, 2008
Saturday & Sunday at 7:30pm

Free Admission
Reserve your tickets online

APPAN - Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network
Symposium will be held on Nov. 7 from 9am - 1:30pm

The New York Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network (APPAN) International Festival & Symposium 2008 is the first time in APPAN’s seven year history of International Conferences to meet in New York City for their three day event which brings together a day long symposium and two nights of performances by Asia Pacific Performance Artists. APPAN Artistic Director, Dr. SunOck Lee stated, "All the artistes participating and performing in this festival and Symposium, be it China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Australia, United States or Korea have specialized in using the tool of meditation for adding to and growing in their unique art forms. The performing arts of Asia and Pacific region draw from the quantum power of the healing aspects of music and dance and create an extraordinary experience for the audience that is unlike any other. La MaMa is the perfect home for us and adds to the magic of this special event."

India: “Kudiyattam”: by Kalamandalam Sivan Nambootri
Japan: Noh: “ Kazuraki-YamatoMai (Goddess dance)” by Fusao Okamoto
Korea: “2008 Form is Emptiness” ZenDance Company with Sonmudo, by SunOck Lee
Taipei: “Peking Opera: Lady General”, excerpts “at the Hu Village” by Shu-ching Yang
Australia: “Divine Harmonies” by Malcolm McMillan and James Shannon
U.S.A: “Healing Daekum: Hann” by Grandmaster Sung Baek (Jiang Jing) and
“Healing Bansuri” by Steve Gorn
Indonesia: “Dwimuka Jepindo Topeng Walangkekek” by Didik Nini Thowok

About APPAN:
Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network (APPAN) is a worldwide network to promote cooperation and development in the performing arts of the Asia Pacific region, seeking the creation of worldwide platform reflecting the nuances of cultural differences and fostering new ways to experiment, collaborate and interpret artistic expressions.

Australia:
Tasdance explores spirituality and the wisdom of aging in two excerpts from Divine Harmonies.
Malcolm McMillan performed with Opera Australia and Australian Dance Theatre before joining Tasdance in 2001 for the first Ten Days on the Island cultural festival. Since then he has performed in all the company's major seasons and choreographed work for the Amalgamation Festival and for One for Sorrow, Two for Joy.
James Shannon joined Tasdance in 2006 after graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts. James has worked with numerous choreographers since joining the company, including Raewyn Hill, Anna Smith, Natalie Weir and Kate Denborough

India:
Kudiyattam: by Kalamandalam Sivan Nambootri
1st drummer: Kalamandalam Ravi Kumar; 2nd drummer: Kalamandalam Vineesh
Thalam: Indira Nambootri; Chiutti Kalanilayam Sankaran (special make up)
Kalamandalam Sivan Nambootri is the senior instructor of the Kudiyattam style at the prestigious Kerala Kalamandalm dance institute in Palakkad, Kerala. In March he was honored by India's premier official cultural body, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, for his artistry in updating the world's oldest dance form.

"Thorana Yudham" portrays the state of mind of King Ravana as he reflects on the irony of being asked by the gods to withdraw from battle after conquering the three worlds (the earth, the heavens, and the underworld), while the excerpt from "Parvathee Viraham" features Lord Shiva trying to assuage the jealousy of his consort, the goddess Parvathee, in an amusing display of solo acting.

Indonesia:
Diwimuka Jepindo Topeng Walangkekek Dance: by Didik Nini Thowok
Dwimuka Jepindo is a dance portraying two different characters and is fusion of Japanese and Indonesian traditions. Topeng Walangkekek expresses several different female characters through the employment of various masks and comedic movements.
Didik Nini Thowok, performance artist, choreographer, dancer, teacher, mime, actor, make-up artist, comedian, singer, appears regularly on National Television. His unique style of traditional cross-gender dance combines classical, folk, modern, and comedic dance forms ranging from Topeng (mask dance), Sundance, Cirebon, Balinese, and Central Javanese.

Japan:
Noh: “ Kazuraki-YamatoMai (Goddess dance)” by Fusao Okamoto
Noh combines elements of dance, drama, music and poetry into one highly aesthetic stage art. This particular piece portrays a beautiful mountain goddess who was made ugly by a deity; but, after providing food and comfort to some monks who were lost in a snow storm, she became beautiful again, like a mountain goddess.

Prof. Fusao Okamoto started studying Noh at the age of ten, eventually studying under Kanze Motoaki and Kanze Yashuhide, the leaders of the Kanze-ryu school of Noh. He was officially recognized as an “important intangible cultural treasure keeper in Japan” in 2001.

Korea:
“2008 Form is Emptiness” ZenDance Company with Sonmudo
Choreography and Artistic Director: SunOck Lee
Dancers: Youngbin Lee and Doheui Lim, Sonmudo (Zen martial arts): Jaeduk Kim
New York Times said "Zen Inspired…totally creative and theatrical" by Anna Kisselgoff.
Zendance is not only an aesthetically beautiful art form. It is a form of “Dance meditation” since 1974 in NYC and it has developed multi media piece that combines the elements of Korean ritual dance, modern dance techniques with Sonmudo (Korean Buddhist Zen martial art ).

Sun Ock Lee has been honored internationally for her extraordinary dances, performances, based on Zen philosophy and Zen Dance technique. Dr. Lee received a D.A. from NYU and is the author of "Zen Dance: Meditation in Movement", “ZenDance Technique and Therapy" and “Healing Zendance”. She won the Choreographer's Award by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been commissioned for performances in Seoul, Biennale Dance Festival in Paris, New Delhi, Calcutta, Assam in India, APCD Festival in NYC,China, ASSISI, Florence and Rome Festival in Italy.

Taipei:
“Peking Opera: Lady General”, excerpts “at the Hu Village” by Shu-ching Yang, Peking Opera is a composite of poetry, music, singing, dancing, speaking, miming, acting, kung-fu, and acrobatics, renowned for its multicolored and embroidered costumes and multi-patterned face paint.
Shu-Ching Yang is a Leading Tan (Female Role) dancer and a designer of the Peking Opera website at Taipei Li-Yuan Peking Opera Theatre. She has performed in Seoul, Beijing, and NYC. Since 2002 she has been an administrator-actress at Taipei Li-yuan Peking Opera Theatre.

U.S.A:
“Healing Daekum: Hann” by Grandmaster Sung Baek (Jiang Jing).
The Daegeum was part of Korea's court music for nearly 2,000 years and is considered to be the most difficult bamboo wind instrument to play. However, once mastered, its sound is pure and able to touch the human spirit over long distances.
“Hann” is a unique Korean spiritual term with many profound meanings. An emotional desire and need of fulfillment, and the happiness we just cannot give up. This deep hidden human desire of fulfillment is “Haan” while we accept that it cannot be fulfilled ever.
Sung Baek is a teacher, also a master in three areas: medicine, martial arts, and music. In 1989, Grandmaster Baek released the famous Automatic Meditation music CD of unaccompanied Daegum called "Close Your Eyes" and “Ek Ong Kar”. His unique ability to throw life force (Kundalini, or Qi) into sound has never been imitated. Grandmaster Baek is also a research physician specializing in development of natural medicines and proteomic biomarker cancer diagnostics through JBNI-Biodrux in Washington State.
“Healing Bansuri” by Steve Gorn, Reknown Bansuri-Indian bamboo flute player.
Steve Gorn, whose flute is featured on the 2004 Academy Award winning Documentary film, Born into Brothels, has performed Indian Classical Music and new American Music on the bansuri bamboo flute, soprano saxophone and clarinet in concerts and festivals throughout the world. His teachers include Sri Gour Goswami of Kolkata, and Pandit Raghunath Seth, and he performs regularly with Pandit Samir Chatterjee and Pandit Barun Kumar Pal. Well known to audiences in India and the west, he has been praised by critics and leading Indian musicians as one of the few westerners recognized to have captured the subtlety and beauty of Indian music.

Symposium: Meditation-Healing Dance & Music"

Nov. 7 (Fri), 2008 9:00am - 1:30pm
The Annex

Keynote Presentation: Mme. Shanta Serbjeet Singh "Meditation and Healing"
Presenters: Dr. Sachiyo Ito and Dr. Ruth K. Abrahams: Meditative and Healing Aspects of Noh Dance

* Dr. So Inhwa : Choreographic and Therapeutic Aspects of Zendance

* Didik Nini Thowok: Comic Walangkekek as Contemporary Healing Dance

* Guru Venu (presented by Sudarshan Belsare) :Kudiyattam: Oldest Dance-Theatre form of world, Heals from within and without

* Eleanor Yung: The Healing Aspects of Qi in Peking Opera Dance Movements

* Annie Greig: Healing Aspects of Contemporary Dance Creation

* Sponsors:
Asian Cultural Council, NYC
Korean Cultural Service NY, Arts Council Korea and
Asian HubCity of Culture in the Republic of Korea Ministry Culture, Sports and Tourism
Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Govt. of India

Zen Dance

APPLIED MEDITATION STUDIES PROGRAM

ZEN DANCE

Meditation in Movement (SunMu) Therapy

Certificate Course

* Evening Intensive

56 Hrs/ 4 Weeks

Monday- Friday/ 6pm-9pm

Applications being taken for Year 2008

fee: $1200

* Weekend Intensive

56 Hrs/ 4 Weeks

Saturday & Sunday/9am-5pm

Applications being taken for Year 2008

fee: $1200

*Both programs may include field practice with patients under the supervision of doctors ( for case studies).

ZENDANCE:

MEDITATION IN MOVEMENT THERAPY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

This certificate Course is a two-year program leads to a Master of Applied Meditation Studies: Zendance Therapy Certificate ( MA- ZDTC), four times in each four week course of study for nurses, movement therapists, dancers, aerobic teachers and other related physical educators and meditation practitioners. This course will certify for the teaching of the Zendance-Sunmu technique as a therapy in conjunction with medical practitioners recommendations. The program is divided into various disciplines students will choose from over the period of two-years, in each four weeks course. It is a new method which enables mind and body healing through movement in dance meditation. This course will offer both practical workshops and theoretical studies. It is an intensive course that will enable the Zendance therapists to work with the general population for rehabilitation and as a form of Healing Art for health promotion and alternative medicine.

The Purpose of ZENDANCE as Applied Meditation

Meditation in movement is to enhance one’s everyday life with the richness of the equilibrium of a healthy mind and body within our chaotic modern society. This certificate course is designed to reduce the stress bound Ki-energy, and allow proper flow and circulation throughout the entire body. The basis of the Zendance technique consists of both movement meditation and Tanjun- lower abdominal breathing exercises and Yimoko-Kongan( Zen Quest) practice. The movement meditation consists of the yin and yang theory and incorporates Mudras-hand gestures, emotional control and improvisation.

This course is a new approach developed based on the Zen philosophy, Asian traditional and modern dance concept collaboratively by Dr. Sun Ock Lee and The Graduate School of Complementary Alternative Medicine- Pochon CHA University, and Zendance-SunMu Center in Seoul.

The Programs of Applied Meditation Studies: ZENDANCE Therapy Certificate Course(2-3 should be chosen as focus of each course with basic Zendance technique ) as follows:

1. Pregnant Women’s Program- pre and post natal exercises

2. Post breast cancer patients

3. Stress reduction for professional men & women

4. Chronic illness and disease

5. Post womb cancer patients

6. Incontinence aid

7. Menopausal men and women

8. Children’s concentration improvement

9. Prostate prevention and rehabilitation

10. Spine-disc management

This course and selections will be taught by professor Dr. Sun Ock Lee who created ZENDANCE and founder of ZENDANCE Company (since 1974 in NYC). For the past 30 years, she has been teaching and performing throughout Europe, USA and Asia. She received her doctorate at New York University( 1984). Zendance technique and therapy is receiving more international recognition at alternative medicine centers, holistic centers and new age institutes.

Please consider the attached information in regards to the Applied Meditation Studies Program: ZenDance/Movement in Meditation Therapy Certificate Course . I have included a brief description of the program details, an introduction, as well as a listing of the various disciplines that can be explored within the course.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for specific detail or explanation in regards to course schedule, specific course topic elaboration, and any other issues or concerns.

Contact: Dr. Sun Lee

E-mail: info@doyi.org

zendance@hotmail.net