PURE WHITE
PURE LUCK awarded Beau Rhee a performance space. The piece was held in May 2010 and the realized art exhibited in July, 2010 at PURE LUCK located at 2 Great Jones Street in Noho, NYC. She understands the influence art can wield over society and she chooses to use it as a medium to stimulate productive dialogue. Bravo!
PURE LUCK
presents
Pure White
by Beau Rhee
THE ARTWORK
Pure White is an installation scripted within a conceptual ballet and was conceived by Beau Rhee over the course of three years time. This large-scale piece combines thirty minutes of choreography, snow machines, polyurethane snow, a cigarette and a ballet barre with a classically trained dancer in a dress of silk and feathers. The artwork cycles and re-cycles through its own time and material.
With potentially political undertones, this thoughtfully scripted piece questions the boundaries of purity and excess within the human cycle. The balletic movements explore the tension between classical beauty and the mechanistic all the while subtly reflecting on the current status quo. Finally, the installation re-enforces these main ideas with its rhythmic sounds and actual mechanism, which demands constant refilling upon depletion of petrolium snow product. The snow falls into a sculptural polyurethane pile that remains a constantly shifting geography of the dancers’ movement. The installation creates a living mechanical environment within itself.
THE PERFORMANCE
White snow gently floats to the ground over a wooden ballet barre. The peaceful sound of it falling combines with echoes of the dancer’s sweeping feet reverberated from a past performance. At regular intervals, a dancer emerges, smoking her cigarette and stretching in the steady snowfall. This ballerina is costumed, powdered, masked and feathered white. She unfurls her body, rehearses, repeats and develops her movements. The viewer shares with her the process of entropy and expenditure. They feel the exhaustion with what is past and are ready to move on to what is new. The performance ends, only to resume again in persistence.
BEAU RHEE
The artist believes that true beauty has the power for criticality and to stimulate transformation. This is achieved in part through the emotional state pure beauty evokes when experienced. A theatrical inspiration injection into the stream of consciousness, this piece is certainly in part a reaction to the catastrophes of our society. Feeding the machine with more of the same is no longer acceptable.
Beau Rhee received her B.A. Dance & B.A. Art History from Columbia University (cum laude). She has shown artwork and performed at The New Museum, X-Initiative, Exit Art, P.S.1/MoMA. Most recently Beau had been interviewed by Art International Radio (AIR), a new internet radio station & cultural archive directed by the founder of P.S.1. There she has been invited to rehearse and create new works.
Her previous formal dance training includes: Bill T Jones Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, and A-Soon Dance Company in Seoul Korea.
To purchase artwork or for exhibition inquires please contact:
Question@mypureluck.com
or call
646*821*3166
Location
Bath House Studios
540 East 11th Street
NY, NY 10009
Dates & Times
May 13 and 14, 2010
Doors open 8pm
Pure Luck launches with Pure White on Thursday, May 13th at 8pm. The performance is approximately twenty-five minutes, and will run two or three times throughout the course of two hours.
VIP CHAMPAGNE SERVICE at Pure White will have a balcony view of the stage, private red velvet curtain seating and catering by Epistrophy in Nolita. All Pure White attendees will be entered to win gifts from our sponsors.
Pure White / Beau Rhee are sponsored by FreshFresh Soho- All Natural Skin Care and Spa an LVMH brand.
http://www.fresh.com
Epistrophy Cafe (Nolita location)
http://www.epistrophycafe.com
Tim’s Snowmaker
http://www.snowmaker.net
Edward III Premium NY Absinthe
http://www.edwardthethird.com
PURE WHITE
PURE LUCK awarded Beau Rhee a performance space. The piece was held in May 2010 and the realized art exhibited in July, 2010 at PURE LUCK located at 2 Great Jones Street in Noho, NYC. She understands the influence art can wield over society and she chooses to use it as a medium to stimulate productive dialogue. Bravo!
PURE LUCK
presents
Pure White
by Beau Rhee
THE ARTWORK
Pure White is an installation scripted within a conceptual ballet and was conceived by Beau Rhee over the course of three years time. This large-scale piece combines thirty minutes of choreography, snow machines, polyurethane snow, a cigarette and a ballet barre with a classically trained dancer in a dress of silk and feathers. The artwork cycles and re-cycles through its own time and material.
With potentially political undertones, this thoughtfully scripted piece questions the boundaries of purity and excess within the human cycle. The balletic movements explore the tension between classical beauty and the mechanistic all the while subtly reflecting on the current status quo. Finally, the installation re-enforces these main ideas with its rhythmic sounds and actual mechanism, which demands constant refilling upon depletion of petrolium snow product. The snow falls into a sculptural polyurethane pile that remains a constantly shifting geography of the dancers’ movement. The installation creates a living mechanical environment within itself.
THE PERFORMANCE
White snow gently floats to the ground over a wooden ballet barre. The peaceful sound of it falling combines with echoes of the dancer’s sweeping feet reverberated from a past performance. At regular intervals, a dancer emerges, smoking her cigarette and stretching in the steady snowfall. This ballerina is costumed, powdered, masked and feathered white. She unfurls her body, rehearses, repeats and develops her movements. The viewer shares with her the process of entropy and expenditure. They feel the exhaustion with what is past and are ready to move on to what is new. The performance ends, only to resume again in persistence.
BEAU RHEE
The artist believes that true beauty has the power for criticality and to stimulate transformation. This is achieved in part through the emotional state pure beauty evokes when experienced. A theatrical inspiration injection into the stream of consciousness, this piece is certainly in part a reaction to the catastrophes of our society. Feeding the machine with more of the same is no longer acceptable.
Beau Rhee received her B.A. Dance & B.A. Art History from Columbia University (cum laude). She has shown artwork and performed at The New Museum, X-Initiative, Exit Art, P.S.1/MoMA. Most recently Beau had been interviewed by Art International Radio (AIR), a new internet radio station & cultural archive directed by the founder of P.S.1. There she has been invited to rehearse and create new works.
Her previous formal dance training includes: Bill T Jones Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, and A-Soon Dance Company in Seoul Korea.
To purchase artwork or for exhibition inquires please contact:
Question@mypureluck.com
or call
646*821*3166
Location
Bath House Studios
540 East 11th Street
NY, NY 10009
Dates & Times
May 13 and 14, 2010
Doors open 8pm
Pure Luck launches with Pure White on Thursday, May 13th at 8pm. The performance is approximately twenty-five minutes, and will run two or three times throughout the course of two hours.
VIP CHAMPAGNE SERVICE at Pure White will have a balcony view of the stage, private red velvet curtain seating and catering by Epistrophy in Nolita. All Pure White attendees will be entered to win gifts from our sponsors.
Pure White / Beau Rhee are sponsored by FreshFresh Soho- All Natural Skin Care and Spa an LVMH brand.
http://www.fresh.com
Epistrophy Cafe (Nolita location)
http://www.epistrophycafe.com
Tim’s Snowmaker
http://www.snowmaker.net
Edward III Premium NY Absinthe
http://www.edwardthethird.com
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