Surface Jae Man Joo choreography Excerpt Clip

Choreography By Jae Man Joo
Performed By Gary Jeter and Philip Orsano -Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Premiered in New York City November 2008.

Music - Claude Debussy.
Music Live piano performed by Hoa Pham
Lighting Design By Michael Korsch
Costume Design By Jae Man Joo and Christine Darch.
Original Duration - 9 min.

Jae Man Joo is Associate Artistic Director , Ballet Master, Choreographer
of Complexions Contemporary Ballet which he has been involved since 1996.
He started classical ballet training at UM Ballet studio in his native Korea, where he also studied modern dance and Korean traditional dance.  He Studied dance under some amazing teachers, Young-Ja Um, Wan-Soon Yook, Eun-Me Ahn, Ae-Soon Ahn,
Byung-Hee Choi, Soo-Nam Song, Hae-Jung Kim and Igal Perry...many of whom are considered almost national treasures in Korea. After graduating from Dankook University he danced with a wide range of Korean dance companies including the Korea Contemporary Dance Company.
Before moving to New York City in 1996, he received the Best Individual Dance Award at the Bagnolet International Choreographer Festival in Paris, France. He has since worked with Ballet Hispanico, Shen Wei, Zvi Gotheiner, Igal Perry, and Michele Elliman, among others.  
He Awarded 2009 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship.
He choreographed his First solo work, "Sorrow"(Frank Schubert), for a showing at Dance Theater Workshop in 2004. The Korea Modern Dance Museum invited Mr. Joo to choreograph and perform his second solo work, "Duet" (Jules Massenet) during their 2006 festival.
In 2007 his premiered his work for Complexions, "Tears" (Sergei Rachmaninoff) and in 2008 "Surface" (Claude Debussy). In 2009 he Choreographed brand new work "Atmosphere" music by J.S Bach for Complexions contemporary ballet 15 year anniversary season at the joyce theater NYC.

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