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Native Americans, forced long ago from their ancestral lands, are now being displaced again by the consequences of climate change – thawing permafrost, coastal erosion, storms and severe drought. A national American Indian leader says “we’re running out of time.” In June 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres re-echoed a warning that “we are reaching the point of no return for the planet.” He said “we are ravaging the very ecosystems that underpin our societies, and in doing so, we risk depriving ourselves of food, water and resources we need to survive.” "Thunder/Ripple" embodies the intellectual and emotional reverberations of these warnings. Through improvised dance and vocalization, and engagement with manipulable structures created by sculptor Kris Rumman, JungWoong Kim, accompanied by Germaine Ingram, channels the emotional weight and sense of urgency bound up in the inevitable dominance of nature in the face of mankind’s greed, indifference and hubris. Employing ritual, movement, and song drawn from Kim’s immersion in the aesthetics of Korean Shamanism, and Ingram’s praxis steeped in Afro-diasporic literary and performance traditions, the piece speaks to the imminence of collective disaster if we fail to exercise collective will and human capacity for humility, preservation and restoration.

JungWoong Kim immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea a dozen years ago to pursue his practice of dance, choreography, and video editing. His work, which includes solo performance and intensive collaborations with artists from diverse disciplines, merges improvisational movement, improvised sound/voice/music, video, and spatial design. He engages with spaces that have their own stories – in nature, on city lots, plazas, and underpasses, in/atop industrial buildings. He and his family live in Philadelphia, PA.

Germaine Ingram is a Philadelphia PA-based percussive dancer, choreographer, song writer, vocal/dance improviser, oral historian and cultural strategist. She creates evening-length pieces that explore themes related to history, collective memory, and social justice, and designs arts/culture projects that explore and illuminate community cultural history. She collaborates with artists from diverse traditions and disciplines, including jazz/experimental music composers, site-specific choreographers, dance and vocal improvisers, African Diasporic culture specialists, and visual/media artists.

Kris Rumman is a Palestinian-American artist who creates sculpture, performances, and installations. Captivated by architecture, power, and chance, her work is migratory, situationally responsive and inextricably linked to the geopolitics where she lives. Kris currently lives in NYC and is developing "Body_Building," an interactive sculpture project that will debut in Fall 2021 at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Video Credit: Matt Gere

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