Kim Ip

Kim Ip is a Bay Area Based Choreographer hailing from New Zealand and Hawai'i. She is interested in making work about body politics, the femme-bodied experience, and where entertainment and abstraction meet. Her inspirations lie in drag, queer performance art, and intersectional feminism. Currently, she is choreographing for a collaborative music video for Vain Hein’s song, “x(xx)”, with Nick Navarro/Pseuda and Viktor Belmont.

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Kim Ip and Pseuda performing at Swagger Like Us Choreography by Kim Ip

Music: FKA Twigs - I'm Your Doll

Filmed by VAINHEIN.

B4BEL4B, Oakland CA October 31, 2015

We do not own the rights to this music. 

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"Steep in Hurr" Choreography: Kim Ip Installation, Video, Sound Design: Nick  Navarro/Pseuda Videography: Mark McBeth RAW Artist Residency at SafeHouse. San Francisco, CA. June 15, 2016. I have no rights to the music used in this video.

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Kim Ip Choreography Resume

CHOREOGRAPHY 

2016

x(xx) Music Video Choreography for Vain Hein. San Francisco, CA. Choreography: self. Collaborators: Nick Navarro/Pseuda and Viktor Belmont.  

Slick Babble Dance Company Home Season. Berkeley, CA. Guest Solo. Choreography: self. 

RAW Artist Residency Performances at SAFEhouse Arts. San Francisco, CA. Choreography: self. Collaborators: Nick Navarro/Pseuda, Sophia Colmenarez, Rose Huey.

Wax Poets Home Season Show at Joe Goode Annex. San Francisco, CA. Featured Solo. Choreography: self.

2015

Swagger Like Us Halloween Party at B4bel4b. Oakland, CA. “I’m Your Doll”. Collaboration with Nick Navarro/Pseuda. 

Folsom St. Fair. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with Vain Hein’s musical set. Choreography: self. Dance Collaborators: Tiffany Tonel, Alexandra Maricich.

Milk Bar #37 (closing show). Oakland, CA. “Body H8″.  Performance collaboration with Nick Navarro/Pseuda. 

Redwood Regional Park: Art and Nature Festival. Oakland, CA. “Splintered”. Improv Collaboration with musicians, Dan Gottwald and Rachel Austin.

Luggage Store Gallery: Outsound Festival. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with vocal improviser, Rachel Austin. Improvised Dance.

95 Rituals at City Hall. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with InkBoat Company. 95 Rituals, restaged scores for Anna Halprin. 

Brava Theatre: Switchboard Festival. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with musician, Bill Baird and ensemble. Improvised set with Kinect Camera.

Meridian Gallery hosted by Canessa Gallery. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with musicians, Benjamin Ethan Tinker and Crystal Pascucci. Improvised electronic music with prerecorded electronic music, layered with improvised with live cello.

Luggage Store Gallery: Outsound Festival. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with musician and improviser, David Slusser. Tenor Saxophone with dance.

2014

The Ridge Space: Chorus: A Melodrama. Oakland, CA. Collaboration with visual/sound artist, Michael Mersereau and Dancer, Heather Stockton. Four hour piece with structured choreography and improvised movement.

Trolley Dances. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with InkBoat Company. 

Mills College Lisser Theatre: 2014 Senior Thesis Performance. Oakland, CA. Spring Semester Rehearsal Process with choreographer: Thea Anderson. Spring Semester Rehearsal Process culminating in two pieces of my own choreography: a group piece, “How to Be a Wind-Up Car While Having Sandy Beach Toes”, and a solo piece, “Drinking Down Appalachia Spring”. Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall. Oakland, CA.

“Sources and Inventions” finals showcase. Collaboration with Computer Music Class culminating in final collaboration with Sharmi Basu. Fusion of modern dance, Kagura Dance, and Computer Music. Professor: Shinichi Iova-Koga/Chris Brown.

ACDFA: Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona. Presented own choreography titled, “Victory Dance”. 

Luggage Store Gallery: Outsound Festival. San Francisco, CA. Collaboration with musician, Joshua Marshall and dancer, Sophia Colmenarez. Improvised set.