Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival Presents: A Dance Theater adaptation of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee

Dictee: bells fall a peal to sky

Conceived and performed by Soomi Kim

Directed by Suzi Takahashi

Location: Dictee:bells fall a peal to sky

Conceived and performed by Soomi Kim

Directed by Suzi Takahashi

By using the code AF1516 before March 16, $15 tickets for any event in the Festival, limited to 4 tickets per performance.

Adapted from the groundbreaking literary collage by late Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, DICTEE intertwines the storiesof ordinary, mythic, and martyred women—including Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, as well as Cha herself. Korean born, NYC-based performer Soomi Kim uses movement, video, and original music to transpose Cha’s postmodern poetry to the stage.Dictee: bells fall a peal to sky is based on the book Dictee, by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, copyright The Regents of the University of California, courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Featuring Kiyoko Kashiwagi and Diana Oh

Music by Jen Shyu

Additional music by Adam Rogers

Lighting design by Lucrecia Briceno

Video by Eric Jiaju Lee

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Also featuring works by Korean American Female artists