Meridian Gallery presents Dohee Lee performing her new multidisciplinary work in progress, DeepSea and GaNADa.

Dohee Lee is a vocalist, composer, and performer who explores her training in shamanistic ritual music, dance, and Korean percussion in order to create unique interdisciplinary work. GaNADa is a new work in progress, inspired by traditional Korean mask and puppet dance and Korean mythology, in which Lee explores the creative process and the fundamental transformation of a human experience. This personal work is a continuation of her recent piece, DeepSea, which connected the tales of two ancient goddesses from Korean mythology, Mago and Baridegi, with her own story and history.

DeepSea and GaNADa will be a solo performance by Lee, who will combine vocals, dance/movement, and drumming in the intimate space of Meridian's Performance Gallery.

Dancer/Musician/Vocalist Dohee Lee is the founder of the groundbreaking PURI Project. Born out of her desire to create a new art form, in 2004 she founded the group, an innovative project that presents elements of dance, music, spoken word, visual art, and audience participation within the context of their performances. She studied Korean traditional dance and drumming at the master level in Korea. Since her arrival in the US, she has been a vital contributor to both the traditional and contemporary Asian American cultural arts landscape of the Bay area and beyond. She has performed in various ethnic dance festivals, including the Asian American Dance Performance and the Asian American Jazz Festival in San Francisco and Chicago. She has worked on projects with dancer/choreographer Sue Li Jue's Facing East Dance and Music, modern dance company Kunst-Soff as a composer and performer, Butoh dancer/choreographer Shinichi Iova Koga's Inkboat, Francis Wong, Jeff Chan, Jon Jang, Tatsu Aoki, Joan Jearnrenaud, Okkyung Lee, Theresa Wong, Lawrence Ochs and Scott Amendala. She also has collaborated on new work with Nanos Operetta, the Kronos Quartet and choreographer/dancer Anna Halprin. She presented the world premier of her production FLUX at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2008, DeepSea in 2009 at SF Public Library and E-side Arts Alliance, and performed in Anna Halprin's project "Spirits of Place" in Stern Grove in May 2009.

"Among the most stunning was Dohee Lee. Lee moved dramatically across the stage, applying the gestures of ancient Korean dance to the jazz rhythms of the moment. Lee unfurled an extraordinary lexicon of vocal colors, tones and textures. Yet she deftly controlled these otherworldly sounds...with her sinuous, thoroughly personalized one-woman choreography, self-styled art form. Jazz never has looked-or sounded-like this before." (Chicago Tribune, Oct 29th 2004)