Epochal songs 2022 - A solo performance by Muna Tseng
WATCH OUR ONLINE STREAM: Muna Tseng Dance Projects (New York/USA) will present the world premiere of Epochal Songs 2022 - a solo performance by Muna Tseng in an art installation with Keith Haring drawings, at SCHUNCK Museum to accompany the Keith Haring Grace House exhibit, on 8 March at 7:00 pm. On this page you can watch the show via livestream.
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epochal songs 2022
40 years after the premiere of choreographer Muna Tseng’s dance collaboration of Epochal Songs with Keith Haring at the 1982 Riverside Dance Festival in New York, the work is reimagined for SCHUNCK and schrit_tmacher Just Dance! by Muna Tseng and her team of acclaimed artists from New York. This new presentation of Epochal Songs includes a sculptural installation by the award-winner light designer Thomas Dunn, incorporating the suite of 47 original Keith Haring drawings. The music score by Bruce Tovsky and Tracy Wuischpard will create an immersive soundscape for the live solo performance by performer choreographer Muna Tseng. Costume designer for Epochal Songs is Stefani Mar.
Muna Tseng is widely acclaimed for her seamless fusion of Asian aesthetics with Western cross performance ideas. She has created and choreographed over 40 works which have been performed in over 15 countries including the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, England, Scotland, Germany, Bosnia, Israel, Greece, Estonia, Sweden and Switzerland. She founded Muna Tseng Dance Projects to produce art in a culture of creative exchange with collaborators who are leaders in their fields of contemporary performance, visual art installation, exhibition, books, media and archive projects.
“An exquisite dancer, absolutely breathtaking. A choreographer with something important to say.”
muna tseng x keith haring
Epochal Songs was first staged with Muna and five other dancers. Her collaboration with Haring premiered at the Riverside Dance Festival in 1982. The work followed a linear narrative - from prehistory to the present day - with dancers functioning as, in Muna’s words, “Harbingers, messengers flowing in the river of time. Always moving; never ceasing” lines would meet with Haring’s infamous line when he agreed to design new sets for the piece.
Keith came over to Muna’s studio to watch her dance rehearsals, then at Keith’s studio (across the street), Muna danced and talked as Keith drew images on paper with black felt marker. Drawing on the DIY ethos of the downtown scene at the time, and lacking the funds to produce an animated film, they later photographed the drawings, inverting the images into slides that could be projected.