Event

Tom Tsai: Personal Persona Person

"Personal Persona Person"
choreography, performance, and text by Tom Tsai

October 8th, 8:00pm
October 9th, 3:00pm

ARC Pasadena
1158 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91106
parking & entrance behind building

$10 online or cash only at the door

"Debating his identity, [...] Tom Tsai ties himself in brilliant knots, verbally and physically."
- Zoe Anderson, The Independent

"...my favourite solo was [...] by the almost incandescently bright Taiwanese-American Tom Tsai." - Donald Hutera, The Times

Tom's first evening-length work, Personal Persona Person, tracks the 15-year evolution of his personal dance style, his battle arsenal of moves, and his B-boy personas, in relation to experiences of transition and loss. Through the work, Tom recognizes the creative process as his means of coping, and explores its inverse: coping as a creative process, and a fundamental human act of sustainability.

The evening incorporates everything Tom loves about dancing; bringing together improvisation/freestyle, choreography, and his Breaking, Modern, and Postmodern aesthetics and influences.

with special appearances by Los Angeles-based movers & artists.

Suchi Branfman
Heidi Brewer
Jay Carlon
Sarah Leddy
Lindsey Lollie
Alexx Shilling
Edwin Siguenza
Michael Szanyi
YT Wong
DJ Arthur Lien

promo video: https://vimeo.com/181005252
tomtsai.com