Philadelphia
2008-2016
"quietly taking the city by storm…
highly spiritual .. poetic, soulful.”
- CITY Paper, 2014
“Santuario is a stunning artistic response to the Pulse Nightclub shootings...It is a profoundly moving dance elegy.” - HuffPost
Degas
Premiere: 2016. Time: 25 minutes. Dancers: 11
Site specific work
Commission work by the Barnes Foundation
Music: Live Music & sound design by Cory Neal
SANTUARIO
Premiere: 2017. Time: 38 minutes. Dancers: 10
Music: Arvo Part, Cory Neale, Club Mix (Wake Up, Safe and Sound), Excerpts“Poem for Pulse”by Jameson Fitzpatrick
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
A site-specific performance and exhibition project that captures the dancing body in the raw immediacy of structured improvisation. Responding directly to Edgar Degas’ iconic collection at the Barnes Foundation, this roving performance activates the architecture, winding through the Entrance Gallery Space to blur the lines between performer, viewer, and static art.
Moment/s
Premiere: 2016. Time: 10 minutes. Dancers: 5-6
Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
“With...Moment/s we are literally taken on a whirlwind of fleeting moments in our everyday existence, challenging our very notions of time, space, relationships, tension, stillness and discovery.” - The Dance Journal
DREAMSCAPE
Premiere: 2016. Time: 10 minutes Dancers: 7-8
Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
“...the dancers garbed in all black, blending in to the dimly lit background, created an other-world experience with a continual shifting of bodies and shapes.” - The Dance Journal
“[Vertigo] was a meditation on modern life knocking us off balance and our individual and private strategies to move through everyday chaos toward inner peace and resolve.” –ExploreDance.com
HOME/S. 9TH ST.
U.S. Premiere: 2015. Time: 65 minutes. Dancers: 6
Commission work by the FringeArts
Music: Cory Neale
Costume Design: Kun-Yang Lin
Lighting Design: Alyssandra Docherty
“A moving, compelling look at the immigrant experience...a timely piece…leaves us with a sense of mystery and connection.” - Dance Enthusiast
"works more like poetry than like news…moves within an abstract world, reflecting the internalization of an idea rather than a direct account…[Lin’s] representation of cultural displacement is potent and powerful.” - ThinkingDance
Vertigo
Premiere: 2016. Time: 12 minutes. Dancers: 6
Music: Daniel Rhode and the New Music Ensemble of Grand Valley State University.
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
BE/LONGING: Light/Shadow
Premiere: 2014. Time: 70 minutes. Dancer: 9
with Puppet artist Hua Hua Zhang and Light artist Tatiana Hassan
Original Music by Cory Neale
Costume Design: Kun-Yang Lin
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
“Be/Longing: Light/Shadow combines forceful, fast choreography with frozen tableaux.”- Times Union
"If there's such a thing as quiet-ly taking the city by storm, then that's what Kun-Yang Lin's done in Philadelphia...poetic, soulful.." City Paper
A collaboration of four mature Asian Artists: Hsu- Hui Huang (Taiwan), Katsura Kan ( Butoh Artist), Martinus Miroto (Mask and contemporary dance artist) and Kun-Yang Lin ( USA)
ONE - IMMORTAL GAME
Premiere: 2013. Time: 40 minutes. Dancer: 10
Original Music: Cory Neale
Costume Design: Heidi Barr
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
"One was a true gift: smart choreography and an impassioned, athletic execution by a truly talented group of dancers." – The Dance Journal
BE/LONGING
Premiere: 2013. Time: 30 minutes. Dancer: 4
Commission work by the Bedog Arts Festival, Indonesia
Music: Indonesian Music
Costume Design: Kun-Yang Lin
Lighting Design: Community
Sky Dance is an improvisational dance work created in direct conversation with Symphony in D Minor—an epic, interactive sound and video installation by New York artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher. The installation captures the raw power of a thunderstorm contained within a series of massive, hand-cast resin sculptures, each suspended 40 feet from the ceiling as a unique, playable instrument. Through spontaneous choreography, Sky Dance navigates and activates this monumental environment, translating the elemental energy of the storm into immediate, physical form.
Beyond the Bones (revisited)
Premiere: 2003. Revised 2012. Time: 70 minutes. Dancer: 8 w community singers Collaboration with site-specific artist Sculptor: Alison Stigora Music: Andy Teirstein, Igram Marshall, Takashi Kako, Jocelyn Pook, Quentin Chiappeta, Tibetabn Bells, Sound sampler, Cory Neale (Sound Design)
Symphony in D Minor/Sky Dance
Premiere: 2012. Time: 40 minutes. Dancers: 1
A Improvisation work in response to the interactive sound and visual installation by NYC artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher.
"masterfully devised dance theater.... Lin’s ensemble dances with conviction and conceptual precision." - Edge Magzine
"... beautiful, stunning and evocative... Our need to connect and transcend is still ever present. What Kun-Yang does so well as a choreographer, artist and individual, is allow us through his artistry to view this need, making Beyond the Bones not only so moving spiritually but timeless as well." - Dance Journal
MANDALA PROJECT
Premiere: 2011. Time: 40 min. Dancers: 9
Music: Jonathan Goldman, Tibetan chanting, Kenneth Kirschner and Tim Russell.
Visual Design: Hua Hua Zhang
Costume Design: Heidi Barr
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
"A masterwork of art, spirituality, and stagecraft.”- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Lin's works are artistic adventures that captivate on many levels... if you let yourself go with his flow, you don't just watch it - you feel it, too." - The Philadelphia City Paper
"..framing unexpected bodyscapes... sense of artistic journey is hypnotic." - Ballet.co.uk/Magazine
Stravinsky's RAGTIME, RENARD... Each piece was given smooth, quirky, stylish choreography by Kun-Yang Lin that reflected the jazz influence of the music as well as the surrealism of much of the art of the time, and was danced with excellent skill and acting by the players.
Autumn Skin
Premiere: 2010. Time: 40 min. Dancer: 8
Music: Collage of Mum, Philip Glass, Alarm Will Sound, Arvo Part, Kenneth Kirschner.
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
RAGTIME
Premiere: 2011. Time: 7 min.. Dancers: 2
Commission work by Center City Opera
Music: Stravinsky
Costume Design: Kun-Yang Lin
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
"poignant and culturally relevant..." - The South Philly Review
"The choreography is expansive and expressive, permeated with a sense of longing. " - The Times Union, Albany
AUM
Premiere: 2009. Time: 25 minutes. Dancers: 9
Music: OM chanting
Costume Design: Sara Mccorriston
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
"calming yet invigorating " - Philadelphia Inquirer
"virtuosic artistry...hypnotic energy field for the dancers and, eventually, the audience." - Ballet.Co.UK/Magazines
"exquisite dance...where even delicate moments hold sublime, roiling energy.” - CITY Paper