PRINCIPAL WORKS: ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY, ThEATER, DANCE THEATER |
GUMBOOTS and SPIRALS (1988)
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Dance-video work, created at the Dance Video Workshop, Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
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SHI-ME (1986-1987)
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Full length dance theater work, Francoise Gilot scenographer. National Performance
Network tour. Premiered at Ordway Theater, St. Paul, produced by the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis. California premier at the Japan America Theater, Los Angeles.
Selected to represent Los Angeles at the International Asia/Pacific Arts Festival,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
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BEGINNINGS ARE BORN IN MEMORY (1986)
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Full-length dance theater work created in residence at the Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts, Pennsylvania.
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| MOEBIUS MOMENTS (1985) |
Full-length dance theater work. Premiered at Kala Institute, Berkeley.
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| DOCUMENTS FROM HELL (1984) |
Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in conjunction with the major international exhibition, German Expressionist Sculpture. Uses computer generated "human figures" by Dr. Tom Calvert and Ron Resch.
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| CICADA IMAGES, MOULTING (1983) |
Supported by a grant from Mobil Corporation, this work was created in two versions simultaneously, one for the stage and the other for video. Premiered at American Inroads Series, New Performance Gallery, San Francisco.
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| BETWEEN SILENCE AND LIGHT,II (1982) |
Large-scale, outdoor, interdisciplinary dance-theater. Myrtle Edwards Park, Seattle, Commissioned by On the Boards.
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| SERES CEREMONIALS (1980, 1981) |
A full-length work in three ceremonies: Earth and Stone, Sky and Water, Light and Fire.
Premiered as an official Los Angeles Bicentennial Event at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 1980. A new version was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and presented in the Ahmanson Atrium in conjunction with The Bronze Age in China Exhibition, 1981. A video document of this work was selected and shown at the First International Festival of Dance Film and Video, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 1981.
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| BETWEEN SILENCE AND LIGHT (1980) |
A three-day dance theater event that took place in three historic venues in Sydney, Australia. Supported by grants from the Australia Council. Performed by the One Extra Dance Company and artists from the Aboriginal Artist Agency.
The video document of this work was selected and shown at the First International Festival of Dance Film and Dance Video, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 1981.
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| GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUAN (BRECHT) (1978) |
Choreography and movement. UCSD.
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| LANDSCAPE (1978) |
Visual imagery by optical physicist, John Forkner. UCSD.
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| GOLDEN MOUNTAIN (1977) |
The first dance-theater work about the Chinese American experience presented in the
U.S.. A full-length interdisciplinary and inter-cultural piece premiered at The Salk
Institute, Louis Kahn, architect. Extended vocal techniques by Diamanda Galas, Linda
Vickerman. Archival video footage by Larry Swerdlove.
Video version, edited by Yen Lu Wong and Nancy Mason Hauser, shown at the International Conference on "Dance and Modem Society", Beijing, 1994.
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| LADEN WAGON, HAIKU OF TWO WORLDS (1975, 1977) |
Premiere, New York, 1975. Re-choreographed for Conference of the California Dance Educators Association, San Diego, 1977
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| CUT WATER (1974) |
Dance- theater with film images by Stan Vanderbeek, University of South Florida Theater, Tampa.
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| BLOOD WEDDING (LORCA) (1973) |
Choreography and movement. University of South Florida and Theatre for New Repertory.
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| THE NIGHT OF THE ASSASSINS (TRIANA) (1974) |
Choreography and movement. USF and Theatre for New Repertory.
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| TAMING OF THE SHREW (SHAKESPEARE) (1973) |
Choreography and movement. USF and Theatre for New Repertory.
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| ASHES, DARK ANTIGONE (SHORE) (1972) |
Choreography and movement. USF and Theatre for New Repertory.
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| IN RU (1972) |
Dance theater with Laterna Magica images, Theatre for New Repertory |
| AN EVENING OF DANCE: CHOREOGRAPHY OF YEN LU WONG (1968) |
Five new works commissioned and presented by the Ministry of Education, Bureau of
Cultural Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan.
Pal Nian Tzu: The Legend of the White Snake;
Lotus;
Between Two and One;
Call of Ancient Voices;
Between Man and Man;
Winter’s Companions |
| Yen Lu Wong's works are archived at: |
- Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library, NY Public Library, New York
- Dance Research Institute, Beijing, People!|s Republic of China
- The Chung-Chen Center for the Performing Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
- The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts Library, Hong Kong
- The Victorian College of the Arts Library Melbourne Australia
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