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Muna Tseng will join 30 multi-generational 92nd Street Y dance artists in From the Horse’s Mouth - 75 years of dance at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 3pm. Tickets $15. 92nd Street & Lexington Avenue, New York City. http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-DP5HP01
Muna continues working on casting and developing "Stellar Stella", to be premiered in New York in 2011. A fascinating dance novella deconstructed from a daughter's history of a mother's past that is glorified and horrified. Began as an international collaboration with 72-13 Singapore's director Ong Keng Sen, in residence at 72-13 in Singapore in 2006, Muna performed a workshop version there attended by scholars, critics and other theater colleagues.
Muna Tseng in workshop showings of STELLAR STELLA at 72-13 Singapore.
"Water Mysteries" was back by popular demand at the La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, May 15, 2009 in New York City, The piece is a duet of two Asian women in a water ritual using their long black hair as calligraphy brushes. Muna Tseng performed “For Her”, a new solo meditation on separation. Original music by Bruce Tovsky. In summer of 2008, the company celebrated the 20th anniversary of "Water Mysteries" "Water Water" with the original dancers Edie Shaw, Miki Orihara, Hahn Tran, Connie Chin, Winnie Chin, who came back from all over the world and joined by new dancers Asami Morita and Kirsten Ho to dance at Jacob's Pillow and La MaMa Moves Festival.
Photo: Left Hahn Tran in “Water Mysteries,” by Adam Voysey. Right Muna Tseng by Michael Mundy.
The acclaimed solo "98.6: A Convergence in 15 Minutes" was performed at La Mama Moves Dance Festival in May 2007 and in the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center at Bard College, June 2007, as part of Dance Across Borders. This piece won the 1999 BESSIE award for Muna and director Ping Chong.
Read the fascinating feature profile "Soloist: Muna Tseng" in Inside Arts magazine, published by Association of Performing Arts Presenters,
