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Ju-Yeon Ryu
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Personal Statement: I address injustice and social issues like “comfort women” -- the sexual slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII -- deportation, and war, through dance movement. Through ritual women have ownership of their physical body and spiritual self. I am a street performer/fighter. I believe in the power of people/of people’s performance.

I would like to help the Youth empower themselves through art, and advocate for the powerless --- people of color, women, the poor, and minorities. I would like to perform workshops for minority youth to provide them opportunities to experience their own heritage and to learn to transform their thoughts into performance art forms.

Current Work
"Lost Spirits: Nightmares and Memories of War" was staged at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Community Education Center in May 2005.

I would like to found an art center where Korean arts will be taught, studied, and researched with its own people, with classes about community building through the creative process, through choreographing lives of people in the community, and through voicing the voiceless and unheard.
Short Bio
Ju-Yeon Ryu is trained in modern, ballet, and Korean dance. She holds a B.A./M.A. from Seoul National University and an Ed.D. from Temple University. She draws from Korean Shamanist rituals to explore socio-political issues in her choreography.

In "Beyond Good and Evil - Coin Locker Babies" (2000), she portrayed the tragic personal histories of three Asian women in America. In "- [dash]" (2002), she addressed anti-immigration, deportation, and racial hate crimes. At the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, she presented "Wedding of the Dead" (2001), "Hyphenation" (2003), and "Holdher" (2004). Her interest lies in telling the stories of marginalized people and of struggles against political and cultural injustice.

She is a recipient of the Independence Foundation Arts Fellowship, Leeway Foundation's Women Artist Fellowship, the New Edge Artist Residency at the Community Education Center, and Dance Advance funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by the University of Arts.

She collaborated with Tamara Xavier and Victoria Rothstein on Grace Poore’s "Enemies on the Inside: Who Holds You Accountable?" Other Collaborators: Bao Phi, Eric Schofer, Melisa Putz, Cosmin Manolescu, Hanearl Guhm, Clifford Sukjae Lee, Matt Broomfield, Frank Walsh, Hydrogenjukebox, Eliseo Art Silva, Ryan Saunders.
Artist Location
Anaheim, CA

Type of artist
Arts Educator, Choreographer, Director, Performer, Other
General Themes
Peace/Conflict Resolution, Activism/Social Justice, Race/Ethnicity/Cultural Identity, Violence, Feminism/Gender Issues
Keywords
Korea Asian Asian-American Asian American women's issue
Last updated on December 12th, 2005

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