Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students 

Dancing Wind is a cross-cultural production that combines traditional and contemporary choreography of Asian dance through an infusion of live world music from both Korean and Chinese traditions. 

The live music group features Korean traditional musicians Rami Seo (gayakeum) and Hee Jung Han (haegum), and Chinese traditional musicians Feifei Yang (ehru) and Jiaju Shen (pipa) joined by Japanese percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. 

Dancers

Songhee Lee is a dancer and choreographer who specializes in Korean traditional dance. Upon graduating from University of Pusan, Korea, she joined the Pusan Metropolitan Dance Company and became the principal dancer. In 1997, Ms. Lee had her first solo recital in NYC at the Hudson Guild Theater. Since then, she has been actively performing internationally. Currently, Ms. Lee is artistic director and choreographer for the Songhee Lee Dance Company and also an instructor at the Lotus Music and Dance school. 

Nakyung Shin is a Korean traditional dancer, choreographer and instructor. She started dancing when she was 12 years old in Busan, Korea. Ms. Shin graduated from Ewha Womans University in Korea with a B.F.A (2003) and an M.A. (2005) in Korean Dance. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. to broaden her knowledge and experiences in the field of dance. 

Yonghoon Oh is a classically trained dancer from South Korea who has been a professional dancer and teacher for more than ten years. He has performed, choreographed, and received critical acclaim for various works in Korea and abroad including Chang Mu International Dance Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

Ling Tang is a New York City based dancer, educator, and arts manager. She teaches at China Institute, Young Audiences New York, and Flushing Town Hall, offering Chinese dance workshops and residencies for K-12 schools and community centers. Ling holds an M.A. in arts administration from Columbia University and worked as a program officer at the Asian Cultural Council. She has consulted many cultural exchange projects in both China and U.S. for Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Guangdong Dance Festival, and Dance St. Louis. 

Musicians

Hee Jung Han is a professional haegum (two stringed fiddle) player who has performed as the principle member of the two traditional orchestras in Korea, the Youth Korean Traditional Music Orchestra and Seoul Metropolitan Traditional Music Orchestra. 

Satoshi Takeishi is a native of Mito, Japan. He has been living in New York since 1991 and has performed and recorded in vast varieties of genre, from world music, jazz, contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music. 

FJ Music Fusion was founded by erhu musician Feifei Yang and pipa musician Jiaju Shen to revitalize traditional Chinese music and redefine traditional Chinese instruments. This duo of Chinese musicians is dedicated to bringing China's traditional music to contemporary audiences through modern interpretations of classical pieces and integration with other musical genres. 

Rami Seo is an accomplished gayakeum artist whose expansive musical repertoire on the 12-string gayakeum and the 25-string gayakeum spans the traditional and the contemporary to include ancient Korean court music and folk music, as well as current and cross-cultural compositions from across the globe. 

For tickets and information, please visit www.flushingtownhall.org or call the Flushing Town Hall Box Office at 718-463-7700ext. 222.