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Soomi

About Me

Actor + movement/multidisciplinary artist (dancer, acrobat, martial arts perfomer) + gymnastics coach + choreographer + music lover + VIVID DREAMER. Unions: SAG & AEAFor more info: www.soomikim.com ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------SLIDE SHOW PHOTOS: Of my theater show "Lee/gendary: the deconstruction of Bruce Lee", presented by the First National Asian American Theater Festival this past June 07'. Photos by Steven Schreiber...

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My Interests

I like good things. Sexy is also nice. Ocean, laughter, music, food, movies, art, theater, dance.. doing all these things with people you dig is great too.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who will inspire with passion and humor. I don't like creeps and jerks.. please stay away.*notes on the rehearsal video: rehearsal for the Art of War, a martial arts performance troupe I work with through Empire Entertainment. The performers are: George Crayton, Philip Silvera, Scott Parker, Cari Ann McNolte and myself. choreographed and shot/edited by Rafael Kayanan. ..

Music:

Trane, Bird, Cannonball Adderly, Eric Dolphy, Miles, Monk, Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Milton Nascimento, Joao Boscoe, the Tribalistas, Guem, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, the Roots, Bill Frisell ("Before We Were Born" blew me away)Tribe Called Quest, Beck, Brazilian Girls, M.I.A., Coldplay (only "Parachutes"), the Beatles, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Samuel Barber, Debussy, Arvo Part, Bach, Prokofiev, Astor Piazolla, Gil Scott Heron, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, Steven Reich, Asian dub, Talvin Singh. My Favorite venue to listen to mind blowing music: 55 bar in NYC: Dave Binney, Adam Rogers, Dan Weiss, Craig Taborn, Chris Potter, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, Tim Lefebvre (sp?) & crew..

Movies:

Some favorite filmmakers: Mike Leigh ("Naked" is my fav.), Kubrick, Ang Lee, Peter Greenaway, Wong Kar Wai, Atom Egoyan, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Richard Linklater, Lars Von Triers (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Celebration),Woody Allen, Almodovar, Scorsese, screenplays by Charlie Kaufman. Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, the Boxer), ANYTHING with Daniel Day Lewis.

Television:

I like live performance better, but I like to watch Extras, L & O, Project Runway.

Books:

"Dictee", Theresa Hak Kyung cha "Moon Palace", Paul Auster. Twyla Tharp's "the Creative Habit," Pima Chodron's "When Things Fall Apart."

Heroes:

Pina Bruce Jean Michel Ali John Martha Joy Selig Ornette Maggie Jerzy Grotowski Jeff Eugene O'Neil Wong Kar Wai Mikhail And of course..

My Blog

Ex.p girls’ 10 Plates Oct. 24th-28th

A new performance piece by Ex.Pgirl 10 Plates is a multicultural journey that traverses the intersectionsamong urban myths, storytelling and food. In their style of hystericalphysical theatre, Ex.Pg...
Posted by Soomi on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:15:00 PST

echo::system-the desert report + 10 Plates

I made it back from the Steel town (Pittsburgh)-- saw some funny squirrells, went to the Warhol museum and worked my ass off for composer/choreographer Grisha Coleman's show "echo::system-the desert" ...
Posted by Soomi on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:27:00 PST

Echo::system + Lee/gendary report

I had an amazing, exhausting, exhilarating time performing LEE/GENDARY for the Asian American Theater Festival. I received a lot of great feedback and my cast, crew, collaborators were all incredible....
Posted by Soomi on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:44:00 PST

First National Asian American Theatre festival!

Great news! My piece "Lee/gendary", an original performance piece inspired by the life of Bruce Lee, was accepted into this year's First National Asian American theatre Festival to be held in June thi...
Posted by Soomi on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:10:00 PST

Ex.Pgirl, 10 Plates @ Culturemart: 1-8 & 9-07

Dancing security guards. Bear fight. Ketchup. Chicken pinata. Snow pants. 10 Plates. Join us at HERE theatre, as the Ex.pgirl (s) perform their new works "10 Plates" as a part of Culturemart's new wor...
Posted by Soomi on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:29:00 PST

Lee/gendary clip up! (sorry Boast but no post!)

So in my last blog, I boasted that I posted my new clip of work from "Lee/gendary" but the clip was showing up on MY home page under videos, but not when others tried to view. Sorry Ato, for making yo...
Posted by Soomi on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:50:00 PST

NEXT UP: ExPGirls! showing Sept. 30th

I am currently working with a group of fabulous, talented, funny, whip smart female theatre artists called "Expgirls." The Expgirls were participants in the Here artist in residence program (HARP). We...
Posted by Soomi on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:50:00 PST

website up! www.soomikim.com -thankx Joe!!

My brother, who doesn't design websites professionally, spent hours doing this, I think he did a great job! Let me know what you think.
Posted by Soomi on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:17:00 PST