Ian Wen is a visionary movement teacher and performance artist based in NYC, dedicated to exploring the transformative power of embodied expression. With over three decades of experience, Ian has performed, taught, and devised seminal works across the US, Greece, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Ukraine. As a faculty member at CUNY Brooklyn College for 20 years, he guided both MFA and BFA acting students through Butoh inspired explorations and animal work, guiding the next generation of performers.
Ian Wen is a member of both AEA and SAG-ATRA, and is currently represented by Fifi Oscard Agency (212) 764-1100.
De Novo Dance (www.denovodance.com) is the dance theater company he co-founded with Irina Wen. A performance 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 New York Live Arts.
He is indebted to Butoh teachers Diego Pinon, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Ko Murobushi.
Ian Wen is a member of both AEA and SAG-ATRA, and is currently represented by Fifi Oscard Agency (212) 764-1100.
De Novo Dance (www.denovodance.com) is the dance theater company he co-founded with Irina Wen. A performance 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 New York Live Arts.
He is indebted to Butoh teachers Diego Pinon, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Ko Murobushi.
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News:
- Awarded 2022 Orange County Arts Council Community Arts Grant to work on Girl 2022
- 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.
- Awarded a 2016 Su-Casa grant (formerly SPARC)
- 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