Audience Reviews

AUDIENCE REVIEW: Luna: Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers 2025 Home Season

Company:
Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers KYL/D

Performance Date:
March 28-29

Freeform Review:

Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers presents LUNA, welcome everyone to experience the Moon Festival. The darkness, luminosity, void, and human existence described the imagery from their  process in excerpts shown at the Open Studio Series of the Chi Movement Arts Center in South Philadelphia. Yet, this moon festival connects always, and anywhere with the moon. How do you transform, and reflect in connection to the moon? 

Its for me, a feeling of confidence in my body. The Earth’s moon is witness to that male and female energy combinedly in shade, and in shadow; contrasted with everythings' been done under the sun. BLACK MOON, choreography by Kun-Yang Lin, the impression nature imprints onto that distant world contrasts with time. Dancing under the moon light realizes that organic time on earth from a life cycle with phases of the moon. Something for which civilizations have explored in representation to an epic scale in architecture and design. Without any astrological reading,  it is simply a sentimental light from something of the greater, a kinder spirit of nature.

STIHIA is a solo by the season honoree, Evalina ‘Wally’ Carbonell,  and former dance artist with the KYL/D ensemble, it is the snake dance. From out of the shadows, the message carries its own purpose across exponential time. The significance of symbolism in the world of words and science brings a reflection of snakes, femininity, and simply, a kind of monster that has appeared in a long history of mythmakers. The feminine diverges from the masculine in the movement of snakes, and these extremely primitive movements slither and struggle in their own suppleness of life. Totally eclipsed is a cycle of rebirth in the Year of the Snake. Where there is danger, or mystery there is a sheer, thin layer of familiarity in the common original symbol of life, the snake. In STIHIA, performed by Wally, we encounter a fresh take on Medusa, translated to the force of nature, and this feminine fabric for artistic imagination.

MoonTide, choreography by Weiwei Ma, led the discussion into the empowered femininity of the ocean’s emotional turbulence. It is in the rise of moonlight, we can reflect on the large bodies of polarized forces in sensability, and with empathy being in feminine strength. A model of obscurity that sorts out our nervous control over an organic world, of the moon and the tide. Performed by the KYL/D ensemble, Weiwei Ma, Keila Pérez-Vega, Takashi Kanai, Kendall Niblett, Abby Donnenfeld, Angelica Nieves-Merced, and Justin Viernes and Karen Kao, whom render a vital force in a clear symbol, of a moon rise on the sea.

Author:
Chuck Schultz

Website:
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Photo Credit:
Chuck Schultz