evan ray suzuki
evan ray suzuki is a NYC-based choreographer, performer, and filmmaker of yonsei Japanese descent. evan creates multidisciplinary projects in a butoh-ish choreographic style, drawing on references from both internet culture and nature to capture alienation through abstraction and intimacy through fragmentation. evan’s work has been presented internationally at the Umbria Factory Festival in Spoleto, Italy and at venues such as Ars Nova, Abrons Arts Center, JACK, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Pageant, Center for Performance Research, Trans-Pecos, WestFest (New York), Icebox Project Space (Philadelphia), and many galleries, parks, and basements. Recent projects have been supported by grants and residencies from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, Ars Nova, New Dance Alliance, and Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche. evan’s credits as a performer include works by Kim Brandt, maura nguyễn donohue, Ayano Elson, Gordon Hall, David Neumann, Mina Nishimura, Glenn Potter-Takata, and as a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company.
“[Glenn Potter-Takata and] evan ray suzuki’s performances feel as if Kazuo Ohno and Pina Bausch had a baby and then gave it to Chloë Sevigny to raise … inside a mosh pit.” –– Brendan Drake
“In plot hole, notions of haunting — by past online activity, by artistic and cultural predecessors — also revive critical approaches to identity at a moment when its value as artistic theme is questioned and requires continued questioning.” –– Miya Shaffer, Brooklyn Rail
“…the work feels entirely contemporary and, thankfully, part of an evolving discourse around aesthetic, inheritance, physical practices, nationality and “the” diaspora.” –– maura nguyễn donohue, Culturebot (on Bodhisattva Beer Run w/ Glenn Potter-Takata)
This residency is made possible by the Jerome Foundation.
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