PEILING KAO DANCES
electroViolet
Directed by movement artist Pei-Ling Kao, electroViolet is a movement and sound improvisation collective. Pei-Ling and invited sound/movement artists enter unfamiliar territories through improvisation, collaborating on equal footing to find synchronicity without dictating or directing, and exploring the abstract and poetic in movement and sound.
Ombligo II
April 18, 2024
Swissnext, San Francisco, CA
Oblige I - body electric 6.2
October 29, 2022
Joshua Tree, CA
body electric 6.1
March 25, 2022 - Dancing on the Fringe
Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI
body electric 5: Island Circuit Series
February 27-28, 2021
July 17, 2021
Locations around the Oʻahu Island, HI
body electric 4.1: HAPPENING
January 10-11, 2020
The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI
body electric 3.2
November 2-10, 2019 - i-dance taipei 2019
with guest sound artist Jorge Bachmann
body electric 3.1
January 11 &12, 2019 - O'ahu Fringe Festival
Ong King Art Center, Honolulu, HI
May 12 & May 18, 2018
The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI
body electric 1.3
June 2-8, 2017
Lake Studios, Berlin, Germany
body electric 1.2
May 18-20, 2017 - U.C.Davis (Re)sounding Bodies symposium
U.C.Davis, Davis, CA
body electric 1.1
January 13-14, 2017 - O'ahu Fringe Festival
Ong King Art Center, Honolulu, HI
Public Responses
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"The Friday night performance remind me my 60’s shinjyuku days; there is a underground performance group name “tenjyou-sajiki” Organized by syuji terayama, Very cool! Made me feel, the only thing I know is that I know nothing. Keep Your dynamic equilibrium!" ----Shinichi Takahashi, Artist (January 11, 2020)
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"Outstanding. An unpredictable exploration of a wide range of emotions and sonic textures ranging from slapstick to post-apocalyptic. A symbiotic loop of movement motivated by sound motivated by movement. Improvisation at its best! A must see/hear for all." ----Scott Groeniger, Associate Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (May 21, 2018)
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"As soon as I walked in I knew this performance was going to be inviting and interesting. The curtains were open, I was handed a foil hat and the artists were sitting in the house and invited me inside. The performance was interesting to watch and hear. I interpreted of playfulness, experimentation, rule-breaking, freedom of expression, humor. I would describe it as raw and real. I find dance to often be pretentious, but this was not." ------Kiki Rivera, Theatre Artist (May 20, 2018)
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"You were both phenomenal as well as political in a way we like".----- Richard C. Rath, Associate Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. (January 18, 2017)
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"I loved watching you(r) movements manifesting your mercurial thoughts. Amazing physical dexterity and strength, but equally interesting was/is the use of common movements, extended & repeated, a common movement vocabulary, building within the repeating, becoming something else... so fast! And FUNNY (to me). I was surprised, a lot, with the choices, odd movement mixes, the physicality & structural developments... that's why we came back, 'did I really see that?" WOW! It does not happen often with dance (with me) that I am so captivated & amazed. I really liked the 'musical tapestry, soundscapes, aural textures.' I especially liked the fact that they were not overwhelming, not aggressive. I had room to listen, not defend, which happens (with me) in some electronica." ------ Jeff Gere, Artist, master storyteller, and puppeteer based in Hawaiʻi. (January 16, 2017)