Ian Wen is a performance artist from New York City. He also teaches movement based on butoh explorations and animal
work and is on faculty in the theater department at Brooklyn College (CUNY) where he works with both the MFA and BFA acting students.
de novo dance (www.denovodance.com), a company he co-established with dancer/choreographer Irina Kom (www.irinakomdance.com), consists of a revolving group of multidisciplinary artists, including musicians, composers, dancers, actors, and academicians.
Together, we seek to examine and explore both the quotidian and the mysterious aspects of life in a performative context. Our work has been made possible with support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department for the Aging, and the Queens Council on the Arts. de novo dance is a fiscally sponsored artist with The Field and takes part in their programming.
de novo dance is pleased to announce that we are partnered with HANAC (www.hanac.org), one of New York City's largest and most successful social service organizations. We are proud to have an ongoing collaboration with the seniors from the HANAC Harmony Innovative Senior Center in Astoria, Queens.
work and is on faculty in the theater department at Brooklyn College (CUNY) where he works with both the MFA and BFA acting students.
de novo dance (www.denovodance.com), a company he co-established with dancer/choreographer Irina Kom (www.irinakomdance.com), consists of a revolving group of multidisciplinary artists, including musicians, composers, dancers, actors, and academicians.
Together, we seek to examine and explore both the quotidian and the mysterious aspects of life in a performative context. Our work has been made possible with support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department for the Aging, and the Queens Council on the Arts. de novo dance is a fiscally sponsored artist with The Field and takes part in their programming.
de novo dance is pleased to announce that we are partnered with HANAC (www.hanac.org), one of New York City's largest and most successful social service organizations. We are proud to have an ongoing collaboration with the seniors from the HANAC Harmony Innovative Senior Center in Astoria, Queens.
houseguest trailer from de novo on Vimeo.
coming up next:
de novo dance's shut.eye, a performance symposium on sleep, dreams and consciousness, April 1-3 2016
For information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.denovodance.com.
recent news:
upcoming projects:
00 a movement installation based on faith and ritual as found in places of worship
de novo dance's shut.eye, a performance symposium on sleep, dreams and consciousness, April 1-3 2016
For information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.denovodance.com.
recent news:
- Ian Wen was awarded a 2016 Su-Casa grant (formerly SPARC)
- Ian Wen was awarded a 2015 Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC) grant to continue his work with HANAC.
- de novo dance is proud to have been awarded a 2015 Queens Art Fund (QAF) grant to further develop shut.eye.
- de novo dance's time-space capsule, a site-specific performance in the One Bryant Park Urban Garden Room (corner of 43rd and Ave of the Americas) opened for public viewing in May 2014. Made possible by chashama (http://www.chashama.org)
- de novo dance's inaugural piece, Houseguest, a mixed dance performance incorporating butoh and belly dance with live and original composed music,
played to sold-out audiences June 7-9, 2013 at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, 55 Bethune St., New York, NY. (www.houseguestdenovo.com)
upcoming projects:
00 a movement installation based on faith and ritual as found in places of worship