For Immediate Release
April 1, 2009

For press inquiries: Cheronne Wong
206.387.7487 or wongworks@juno.com

This May, sub-Rosa choreographed by Cheronne Wong debuts at Joyce SoHo in New York May 1-2 at 8pm, May 3 at 3pm.

Tickets
$18 / $12 student/senior
(212) 252-3101

Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street, NYC (between Houston & Prince)
N/R/W to Prince, B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette, 6 to Bleecker

WATCH A VIDEO PROMO OF SUB-ROSA HERE

In sub-Rosa, Wong creates “a world of disorienting shadow-play, nervous double-takes and cryptic messages so enticingly delivered, you wouldn’t really want them to be decoded.” The Seattle Times

Malaysian-born and Seattle-based choreographer Cheronne Wong brings her company to Joyce SoHo for the NYC premiere of sub-Rosa.

Inspired by a series of recordings of shortwave numbers stations (rumored to be a document of covert communications within the world’s secret agencies), SUB-ROSA explores the unveiling of masked identities and the use of numbers as secret code within an international undercover world. Directed by choreographer Cheronne Wong, performers Christina Guillette, Danny Herter, Naho Shioya and Kade Stotler explore their outer spy personas, progressively shedding layers to unmask their true identities. Through inventive movement and daring partnering, this powerful, theatrical work of motion, sound, and vision investigates covert communication on a global and personal level. This multimedia environment is filled with electric dancing, an otherworldly sound score by composer Amy Denio, original sculptures by NYC fine artist Dave Stevenson, visual landscapes by John D. Pai, and bold lighting by Melinda M. Short.

Cheronne Wong (choreographer), originally from Malaysia, has been choreographing in Seattle since 1999. Her work has been produced at many local venues including On the Boards, King County Performance Network, Seattle Asian Art Museum and Western Washington University. Her company has toured/taught nationally and internationally at Jacobs’ Pillow Dance Festival (MA), Mulberry Street Theater and Judson Church in NYC, Wexner Center (OH), and National Arts Academy (Malaysia). She has received commissions/residences from Mulberry Street Theater (Jerome Foundation), NWAAT, Centrum Arts, Aono Jikken Ensemble; and grants from 4Culture, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Bossak/Heilbron and Allied Arts. In 1996, she moved to Seattle after dancing in NYC for several years. She’s had the pleasure of performing in the works of several choreographers including Pedro Alejandro, Pat Graney Dance Company, Mark Dendy, Sarah Skaggs and Chen and Dancers. In 2004, she was one of ten artists selected to participate in the pilot year of the Pacific NW Dance Lab sponsored by the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is a founding partner of Open Flight Studio – a collectively-managed dance studio in the University District, Seattle.

The creation of sub-Rosa was funded by the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, 4Culture and the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle.