Ian Wen is a performance artist from New York City. He also teaches movement based on butoh explorations and animal
work in the theater department at CUNY Brooklyn College, guiding both MFA and BFA acting students.
De Novo Dance (www.denovodance.com) is the dance theater company he co-founded with Irina Wen. A collective of multidisciplinary artists, composers, dancers, actors, and academics, De Novo Dance seeks to examine and explore both the quotidian and the mysterious aspects of life in a performative context. Its 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.
Ian is proud to be partnered with HANAC (www.hanac.org), one of New York City's largest and most successful social service organizations. He and the company have an ongoing collaboration with seniors from the HANAC Harmony Innovative Senior Center in Astoria, Queens.
work in the theater department at CUNY Brooklyn College, guiding both MFA and BFA acting students.
De Novo Dance (www.denovodance.com) is the dance theater company he co-founded with Irina Wen. A collective of multidisciplinary artists, composers, dancers, actors, and academics, De Novo Dance seeks to examine and explore both the quotidian and the mysterious aspects of life in a performative context. Its 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.
Ian is proud to be partnered with HANAC (www.hanac.org), one of New York City's largest and most successful social service organizations. He and the company have an ongoing collaboration with seniors from the HANAC Harmony Innovative Senior Center in Astoria, Queens.
houseguest trailer from de novo on Vimeo.
News:
- De Novo Dance's shut.eye, a performance symposium on sleep, dreams and consciousness, premiered April 1-3 2016. For additional information, visit www.denovodance.com.
- 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 awarded a 2015 Queens Art Fund (QAF) grant to develop shut.eye.
- De Novo Dance's time-space capsule, a site-specific performance in the One Bryant Park Urban Garden Room (43rd St. 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 show, Houseguest, a mixed dance performance incorporating butoh and belly dance with live and original composed music played to sold-out audiences in 2013 at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, NYC