Workshops
Ritual in Creative Art Process
Decolonizing Body as Land Practice
SingingBody Mapping Process
"Ritual in Creative Art Process with Dohee Lee"
Pulling from her unique combination of contemporary performance arts, her Korean cultural practice in dance, voice, rhythms, performance, ritual and the Halprin’s Life art process, she will weave all creative arts practice for Healing and empowering personal, collective (Hx)story into creating a ritual practice as performance.
Dohee envisions that this ritual performance into a learning space for community
where participants share personal and/or ancestral/communal stories,
social, political, environmental, climate and land issues. This leads to building
strategies for addressing and redressing critical social issues and to a lasting bond
by spiritual activism as ritual performance.
Dohee’s Ritual in creative art process built on Five Elements:
1. Expressing and Learning Our Body
2. Natural elements and body Landscape
3. Creative Voice work: SingingBody practice
4. Art and land Installation as building altar
5. Healing through Ritual Practices by Individual and Communal work
Dohee Lee is a performance artist, musician, ritualist and educator born on Jeju Island in South Korea. Dohee Lee's vision comes from traditional Korean singing, drumming and dance
which is rooted in Korean Shamanism. Founder of Puri Arts her practice
utilizes art to heal fractured relationships in the urban environment - relationships
between humans and the land. histories and stories between individuals and their communities
She works at PURI Arts as founder and artistic director, Asian Refugees United as Director of arts and healing and Tamalpa Institute as core faculty.
Awards include: Guggenheim Fellowship, Doris Duke Impact Award, Creative Capital,
Creative Work Fund, Nefa National Dance Project Production, Hewlett 40 arts commission,
Herb Alpert award and more.
