Power Moves: From Bruce Lee’s Intercepting Fist to Hip Hop and Beyond Recap
Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost’s Office and Graduate School presented the second event in this two-part series, Power Moves: From Bruce Lee’s Intercepting Fist to Hip Hop and Beyond.
Choreographer/dancer Peggy Choy re-envisions the legacy of martial artist and film star Bruce Lee, through presentation of her recent work that fuses Asian martial arts with diverse forms of dance from Korean court dance to hip-hop. Choy and her dancers generate a vivid playing field of dynamic movement while exploring Bruce Lee’s intentions behind creating Jeet Kune Do or “the way of the intercepting fist”. Choy will present an introductory talk that situates the dance pieces to be performed in the context of Bruce Lee’s legacy. Choy will perform “Yelllowwww Matriarch”, Toni Renee Johnson performs “Boxher,” and Ze Motion and Rudy Reynon will perform “Jeet Kune Do”. Original costumes are by Jillian Maslow. This was the world premier of Choy’s newest work “Jeet Kune Do” set to music composed by award-winning Asian American jazz composer Fred Ho.
Peggy Myo-Young Choy’s alchemy of focused mind and moving body is fueled by Korean, Javanese and urban dance forms, as well as martial arts. Choy has performed at venues including DC’s Kennedy Center and Dance Place, Dance Theater Workshop and Danspace Project in New York, Honolulu’s Kennedy Theater, the Seoul Art Center, and Jakarta’s Utan Kayu. Her awards include Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative, NEA/Atlantic Center for the Arts fellowship, and Princeton and Cornell university commissions. Choy directs Peggy Choy Dance Company, and is Assistant Professor of Dance and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Related Event— Film Screening: Enter the Dragon.
The first event in this two-part series will screen Bruce Lee’s last and most popular film, Enter the Dragon.
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