Yale Rep Hosts Preview Performance Of Nameless forest 3/31-4/2

NO BOUNDARIES: A SERIES OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCES, presented by Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) and World Performance Project at Yale (Joseph Roach, Principal Investigator; Emily Coates, Artistic Director), announces a special preview engagement of Nameless forest, conceived and directed by Dean Moss in collaboration with Sungmyung Chun, co-produced by Gametophyte, Inc. and MAPP International Productions, March 31-April 2 at the Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street).

NO BOUNDARIES celebrates the diversity of voices and experiences in today's world. NO BOUNDARIES explores-and explodes-the frontiers of theatrical invention through cutting-edge, thought-provoking dance, music, and theatre. Tearing down cultural, linguistic, and geographic barriers, NO BOUNDARIES extends and enhances the educational mission of Yale University through a series of performances by artistic innovators from around the globe-right here in New Haven, right here at Yale.

Nameless forest
Conceived and Directed by Dean Moss
In collaboration with Sungmyung Chun

March 31-April 2 at 8PM
Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street)

American video artist and choreographer Dean Moss and acclaimed South Korean sculptor Sungmyung Chun fuse theatre, dance, video, and sculpture in Nameless forest. Layers of diary fragments, war zone imagery, mirror and neon effects, and an original environmental score combine to explore the relationship between performer and viewer. This special preview engagement gives New Haven audiences an exclusive sneak peek into the cross-cultural, multidisciplinary process behind an innovative collaboration, prior to a world premiere at The Kitchen in New York later this spring.

Dean Moss is a director, choreographer, and media artist who is a Visiting Lecturer in Theater Studies at Yale this spring. He served as Curator of Dance and Performance at The Kitchen from 1999-2004, and his award-winning work has been exhibited and presented internationally at museums and festivals. Sungmyung Chun is a celebrated sculptor, installation artist, and poet from the Republic of Korea whose work has received several solo-shows in his home country and has been exhibited worldwide. He lectures in the College of Fine Arts at Kyunghee University and at Chugye University for the Arts. A monograph of his exhibition Swallowing the Shadow was published by TouchArt in 2008.

For mature audiences. Please contact the Box Office at 203.432.1234 if you have further questions about the themes or content of this production.

The running time for Nameless forest is approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets are $35 with discounts for seniors and are available online at www.yalerep.org/noboundaries, by phone (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street). All student tickets are $10.

RELATED PROGRAMS

No Boundaries offers a variety of programs that allow audiences to engage with its diverse group of artists before and after the performances. All events are free and open to the public.

TALK BACKS
Q&A sessions with the artists will be held immediately following all performances.

WORKSHOP
Tuesday, March 29, 6-8PM
Broadway Loft Studios, 294 Elm Street, 3rd Floor Dance Studio

Audiences are invited to participate in an interactive studio session with Dean Moss and company.

Co-Sponsored by Yale Theater Studies Program

LECTURES
Wednesday, March 30, 5:30-7PM
Theater Studies Ballroom, 220 York Street, Room 101

Replacing One Imagination Culture with Another: A Symbolic Exchange
Lecture by Ralph Lemon, Artistic Director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation.

Touching Worlds: Performing the Cross-Cultural in/through Nameless forest
Lecture by Elizabeth Son, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, Yale University.

Co-Sponsored by Yale Theater Studies Program

For more information, please visit www.yale.edu/wpp and www.yalerep.org/noboundaries.

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