Helen Lee
Thursday, November 8 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 10 at 7:30 pm
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Thursday, November 8 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 10 at 7:30 pm
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"My passions and curiosities have always leaned towards the sensorial, the tactile, the internal workings; how these components can bring us closer to truth, self discovery and evolution in relationship to ourselves, other people and our environment. Currently, in my new work, a glimpse of me, my mom, I am unpacking my family history and investigating home, identity, memory, travel, migration, immigration, displacement, belonging, guilt, shame and what it means to be American through performance, storytelling, video, animation and installation." — Helen Lee
Helen Lee was born and raised in Chicago. Her parents immigrated from South Korea in the mid 1970’s. She received at BA in Dance with a minor in Acting from University of Hawaii at Manoa. Studying in Hawaii was an important transformative time for her. She was surprised and pleasantly delightedly by the abundance of Asian Americans around her. It was the first time she was able to truly feel comfortable in her own skin and fully appreciate where her family roots comes from. It was in this time, she started to cultivate her artistic and creative voice. While in Hawaii, she was a company member for Tangentz Butoh Performance Group led by Lori Othani. Upon returning to Chicago, she joined The Humans directed by Rachel Bunting, a company she performed for 11 years. She also formed Momentum Sensorium in 2007, a dance performance company that has been known to perform in unconventional venues utilizing mindfulness exercises and sensory stimulant and/or deprivation techniques. They have been seen ripping open grapefruits, releasing ladybugs and inviting audience members to walk with their eyes closed in gardens, busy city streets or quiet corners. Momentum Sensorium was a recipient of the Dance Bridge Residency at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2007 and has performed at various Michigan lighthouses since 2011. Helen was mentored by Noémie Lafrance to create, direct and choreograph her short experimental dance film for Experimental Film Virginia. The short film was presented by Dance Film Association in New York and for Chicago Onscreen at Northerly Island Park. She collaborated with Indira Johnson, artist for Ten Thousand Ripples, an organization to promote peace and nonviolence and presented works at the Lakefront Path by Fullerton Beach and at Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA). She was an Awardee for Chicago Moving Company’s D49 program and had the opportunity to present a new work with Carl Wiedemann as an Affiliate Artist for Dance Shelter 2016. She has had opportunities to study with Eiko from Eiko and Koma and in Winter 2015, she studied and performed in Germany with Butoh artist, Tadashi Endo as part of a 10 day residency workshop. Helen has been teaching yoga since 2007 and has had the privilege of teaching in China, Belize, Finland, India, Italy, Mexico and South Korea. She is a current 2019 MFA candidate at School of Art Institute of Chicago in the Performance Department and recently presented at CICA Museum’s Solo Exhibition in South Korea and spent a month at Arteles Creative Center in Finland.
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