{"id":1044,"date":"2009-09-12T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/susie_lee_-_the_video_dance\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T18:40:53","slug":"susie_lee_-_the_video_dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/susie_lee_-_the_video_dance.html","title":{"rendered":"Susie J. Lee &#8211; the video dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If light is a puddle that can be scooped up off the floor and allowed to crawl in finger-like forward motions all over a dancer&#8217;s body, that dancer (Ying Zhou) is working with video artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Artists\/Pages\/Susie_J_Lee.html\">Susie J. Lee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"susieleelite.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/susieleelite.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"376\" width=\"250\" \/><\/span>Lee&#8217;s contributions to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unclosings.com\/\"><i>For these Unclosings<\/i><\/a> at Seattle&#8217;s Theatre Off Jackson last night (the last night) were riveting, but then there was everything else. Lee worked with a classy ensemble; nobody stank up the place. The problem arose in what they chose to do with their abilities. <\/p>\n<p>Emily Greenleaf accompanied herself on accordion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meredithmonk.org\/\">Meredith Monk<\/a>-style vocalizations. Greenleaf is great, and I was grateful that I wouldn&#8217;t have to hear her be great for more than the 45-minute duration. This is music for teenage intellectuals who think that pleasure is suspect and shallow. Somebody has to perform it for that audience; others need to be warned at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ying Zhou is a lovely dancer, she served as choreographer for a piece that is indistinguishable from Martha Graham-influenced mime. (Emote! Emote!)<\/p>\n<p>Success was all about the light. It burned and fondled, quite beyond its station, in a real-time interaction with the dancer.<\/p>\n<p>Below, Ying Zhou erases it with her toe.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"susieleelitetoe.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/susieleelitetoe.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"224\" width=\"350\" \/><\/span>Photos, Cliff DesPeaux. Costume, Catherine Cabeen. Wizard-level video assistance, Andy Wilson, Emily Greenleaf, Keeara Rhoades and Reina Solunaya. Technical director, Okazawa M.<\/p>\n<p>For a contrary view (including an elaboration on process), see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/midnight-ride-around\/Content?oid=2070157\">Jen Graves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If light is a puddle that can be scooped up off the floor and allowed to crawl in finger-like forward motions all over a dancer&#8217;s body, that dancer (Ying Zhou) is working with video artist Susie J. Lee. Lee&#8217;s contributions to For these Unclosings at Seattle&#8217;s Theatre Off Jackson last night (the last night) were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}