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Presented By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

CANCELLED - Nam Center Artist Residency | “AGE OF FIRE: Women of the Scarred Earth”

Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison) Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Doors open at 4:00pm, Lecture/Demonstration begins at 4:30 PM

Peggy Choy’s lifetime of dance has become a means to frame and navigate the dangerous times in which we live. While life and our environment can inform dance, Choy also examines the converse, that dance can inform our life and environment. Join Professor Choy for an evening of her own dance stories—both spoken and performed. This event is free and open to the public.

Peggy Myo-Young Choy’s dance alchemy of focused mind and moving body is fueled by Asian dance, martial arts, as well as urban vernacular dance forms. Choy’s seminal solos include, “Comfort Woman” and “Wild Rice.” She has also created solos around the themes—“Sea Series” and “Blood Series.” Her women-centered stories created since the mid-1990s, integrate her foundations in Korean dance, Javanese dance, and martial arts.

Peggy Choy, associate professor of Dance and Asian-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is director of PEGGY CHOY DANCE company. Her company has performed around the world—at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama E.T.C., and Alvin Ailey Studio, DC’s Kennedy Center, Dance Place and the Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Theater in Honolulu, Utan Kayu in Jakarta, Seoul Art Center in Korea, Danza Teatro Retazos in Havana, and Baráčnická Rychta in Prague, and the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin.

Choy's national and international awards include an NEA/Atlantic Center for the Arts fellowship, Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative, Princeton and Cornell University commissions, and commissions from the Kintari Foundation, Seoul Selection, and Cafe Intarsia.

This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2240001).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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