Digital Movement Dance
Performing “As We Roll Along”
Choreography by Daniel Morimoto

Daniel Morimoto grew up in Orlando, Florida, immersed within an environment of theme parks, childlike splendor, and a faint sense of magic in the air. He graduated from the University of Florida with a BFA in Dance. Since moving to New York, he has found sturdy ground upon which to continue dancing. Currently, he dances with the The Bang Group and Spark Movement Collective. As the Artistic Director of Digital Movement Dance, he embeds elements of fantasy, world-building, and magic. The dances, then, are conduits through which the themes and emotions present in video games are expressed.

Instagram: @DigitalMovementDance

Photo Credit: Jordan Albright Photography

Soomi & Zeke 
Performing “Testing Testing (Redux)”  
Choreography by Soomi Kim and Zeke Stewart

Theater maker Soomi Kim is a New York City based actor/movement artist and has conceived (and co-devised with director Suzi Takahashi) a trilogy of work based on under recognized figures Asian American visionaries: Lee/gendary, Dictee and Chang(e). Kim’s autobiographical piece MLCG (My Little China Girl) was commissioned by Dixon Place and premiered in 2017. Residencies and awards: 2022 Deceleration Lab artist, Orchard Project’s Greenhouse Lab (2020-21), HERE A.I.R. (2015), Marble House AIR (2019), Hemispheric Institute (2014), Mabou Mines (2014). Grants: Center for Remembering and Sharing (2022) NPN Creation & Forth Fund, Heath Cote Fund, Urban Arts Initiative. 2009 NYITA winner.

Zëk Stewart was a resident artist with the Pillow Project, an experimental dance company. With them, they performed in 2084 (Redlight), Dirty Swan (Siegfried) and The Jazz Furnace (a 12 hour post-modern dance performance staged in the last blast-furnace in Pittsburgh).  In NYC they have worked with NatlieInMotion, Witness Relocation, Alexandra Beller and Soomi Kim on new works of experimental theatre. Their work often questions the nature of reality and the malleability of social constructs played out in visceral display. They also reports about TTRPG news and design cocktails! Zëk has a B.A. in Musical Theatre from Point Park University.

Website: www.soomikim.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soomikimnyc
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/soomdawg
Instagram: @soomdawg

Photo Credit: Leyna Papach for Soomi Kim.

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Fast Forward is made possible, in part, with private funds from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature.