The Uh Oh Trio presents a multimedia performance in response to Long Kwento

The Uh Oh Trio creates Maraming: a multi media response of sound, projection and dance to the stories, characters, and images within Maia Cruz Palileo's Long Kwento. Ukulele, Bells, Sungka shells, and popular early 20th century Filipina song styles are expanded, repeated, transformed, and re-imagined into an electronic ambient soundscape by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster. Film projections invoke an aesthetics of busog. Performers Dahlia Nayar and Margaret Sunghe Paek question scripted movements in the gallery, responding to Long Kwento’s provocations to unpack, to remember, to dream, to play.


Wattis Institute in San Francisco December 3 & 4 2021
Kimball Art Center Park City, Utah April 22 2022

Short Film
Flash Mob à Trois

Director
Leneb

Choreographer
Margaret Sunghe Paek

Music
Loren Kiyoshi Dempster

Weyauwega International Film Festival 2021
SERCURA Fine Arts Exhibition Trout Museum of Art 2021

A homespun Bandcamp Album of experimentally tinged Singer-Songwriter style songs.

https://lorendempster.bandcamp.com/album/circle

August 2020

a multidisciplinary water opera
Choreography by Gabriel Forestieri
Music by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
Text by Adrian Jevicki

Saturday and Sunday, March 30 and 31, 2019, 8:00 p.m.
Wellness Center Pool
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
Free Tickets Required. Please visit the Lawrence Box Office to reserve tickets.

Chris Ferris & Dancers: UNQUANTIFIABLE

Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
http://roulette.org/visit/
Sunday, February 17, 2019 @ 8:00 pm
TICKETS: $18 ONLINE, $25 DOOR
60 MINUTES
http://roulette.org/event/chris-ferris-dancers-unquantifiable/

Choreographer: Chris Ferris
Music Director/Composer: Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello, computer)

Musicians: Jon Hanrahan (Piano, Melodica), Gabriel Peterson (Saxophone), and
Kyle Stalsberg (Viola, Electric Violin)

Dancers: Meghan Connolly, Anastasia Ellis, Victoria Ellis, Vanessa Ferranti,
Bethany Logan, and Diane Skerbec.

PERFORMANCE LAB with Lower Left
Wednesday-Wednesday, July 18th - 25th, 2018
Crowley Theater
Marfa, Texas
Guest musician with Lower left dance collective

Friday, April 13, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Esch Studio, Warch Campus Center
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Guest musician with bkSoul Collective.

Saturday, January 27 at 7 PM
Artists Guild
215 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235
Hosted by Rhythmplex

Featuring dance artist MARGARET PAEK and musician LOREN DEMPSTER as they explore the specific spaces of the venue through movement and sound, bringing concepts from other works into juxtaposition with parameters provided by the context.

The series is limited to forty seats per event and no advance tickets will be available. A suggested donation of $10 at the door will go directly to the performing artist.

2125 Stanley Street by Dahlia Nayar
Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 8:00 p.m.
Wriston Art Gallery
http://www.lawrence.edu/s/wriston/visit
at Lawrence University Appleton WI

2125 Stanley Street by Dahlia Nayar
Saturday October 21, 2017
OSU Urban Arts Space
50 W. Town Street Columbus, Ohio
Reception and performance at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission with conference registration
to CORD+SDHS 2017
at Ohio State University

2125 Stanley Street by Dahlia Nayar
*Thursday, November 2 – 7 pm. Performance at 808 Gallery
*Friday, November 3 – 8 pm. Performance at 808 Gallery
808 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
This event is free, but you must RSVP. Space is limited.
Boston University

2125 Stanley Street by Dahlia Nayar
November 4, 2017 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM |
Edwards Arts Center, Room 210 [Dance Studio]
Bowdoin College




2125 Stanley Street is a performance exploring notions of home. Choreographer Dahlia Nayar collaborates with dancer Margaret Sunghe Paek and composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster in a sound, visual and movement excavation of the artists' own cultural hybridity.

April 29-30, Saturday-Sunday
8:00 PM
Natatorium, Peterson Family Athletics Complex

Artist in Residence Gabriel Forestieri, along with collaborators Loren Dempster and Adrian Jevicki, transform Middlebury’s Natatorium with a multidisciplinary performance event.

The project combines light puppetry, projections, swimmers, divers, dancers, actors, musicians, and singers. A live feed of underwater dancing displays to the board above the pool, while projections light the surface and floor. A floating choir mixes with a soundscape composed directly from the space itself, using contact microphones both out of and in the pool. The work is a play on dimensions of air, water, and light, blending these possibilities of sound, space, and depth. The cast is a mix of athletes, performers, and professionals contributing to an unconventional performance with many surprises.

Sponsored by the Dance Program, The Music Department, and The Committee on the Arts. Tickets:

Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6; on sale April 10.
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/dance/events/performances

Dance & Music presented by
Chris Ferris & Dancers

choreography by Chris Ferris, Erin DeLucia-Benson, Melissa Brading, & Cecly Placenti

original music scores by: Loren Dempster & Max Maples
live performance by: Loren Dempster (cello)

Fri. March 31 and Sat. April 1, 2017 at 8:00 pm
New York City Center Studios, Studio 5
130 W. 56th Street, New York NY 10019

Donation: $20 General, $15 Artists/Students
Reserve your attendance by donating a minimum of $15 at:
http://thefield.org/form/make-donation?sa=551216
Your donation is tax deductible.
Door Donations: CASH only

More information: www.chrisferrisdance.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2017
at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC

We'll be revisiting our piece with families. Five years later.
"Resident Artists ReAssembled"
with Roz LeBlanc, Dahlia Nayar, Tami Stronach, Lanette Costas-Stampley, Loren Dempster and kiddos.

Food for Thought is three nights of performance selected by a different guest artist curator each night. Admission is just $5 with 2 cans of food; or $10 with no cans!

Canned goods collected through Food for Thought are donated to St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery food distribution programs.

The Redfern Arts Center presents 2125 Stanley Street.
a performance installation exploring notions of home on Thursday and Friday, February 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, February 11 at 2 p.m. at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for senior citizens and youths, and $5 for KSC students.

For tickets, call the Redfern Box Office at 603-358-2168
or order online at keene.edu/arts/redfern.

Lower Left artists converge in Appleton, Wisconsin to teach and perform at Lawrence University. Formed in 1994 in San Diego, Lower Left is a collaborative group of dance artists, educators, creators, and performers. For this special performance, members from Berlin, Texas, and New York re-assemble with Margaret Paek, Lawrence dance professor. Utilizing signature improvisational, compositional, and ensemble techniques, Available Space will be an evening of spontaneously create dances. Surprise guest artists from the community (including Loren Dempster) will join them for part of the performance. Lower Left will offer the audience ways to view and appreciate bodies in motion crafting the space. Don’t miss this extraordinary performance of dance-making in action.
Friday, Oct 28, 2016
5:00 pm
free
Esch Studio
Warch Campus Center
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

A collaboration choreographer Dahlia Nayar, Dancer Margaret Paek, and composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, "2125 Stanley Street", is featured in the A-Squared Festival at Links Hall in Chicago. Curated by Hope Kim, Cary Shoda, and Giau Truong and presented by Links Hall and The A-Squared Theatre, The A-Squared Asian American Performing Arts Festival features four evenings of contemporary dance, music, performance art, puppetry, sound art, spoken word, and theatre by American artists of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese descent.
The presentation of 2125 Stanley Street was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets here.
Thurs Oct 20 & Fri Oct 21, 2016
7:00 pm
$15 students/seniors, $20 general, $40 for festival pass
Links Hall
3111 N. Western Ave
Chicago, IL

April 14, 2016
Esch Studio, Warch Campus Center
8:00p.m.
Lawrence University

Dancers: Bradley Teal Ellis, Melissa Guerrero, Elise Knudson, Margaret Paek, and Paul Singh.

Music: Loren Dempster
Cello, Didjeridu

Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Science Hall Atrium
6p.m.
Lawrence University

Performers: Gabriel Forestieri, Margaret Paek, Loren Dempster, Matt Turner, and special guest artists/students

Friday March 4 at 8pm
Wriston Art Galleries
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

LU Instructor of Dance Margaret Sunghe Paek and her students perform the piece "Secondary Surface Rendered."

Student Dancers: Camille Dozier, Becca Tapia, Kenneth Herrera, Abigail Hindson, Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall, Micayla Hutton, and Gillian Etherington

music composed and performed live by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster

As a part of the Progressive Performance Festival, 2125 Stanley Street will be performed by Dahlia Nayar with Margaret Paek and Loren Dempster.
Friday, September 4 + Saturday, September 5 + Sunday, September 6

"Northampton-based choreographer Dahlia Nayar returns with a dance and sound installation of 2125 Stanley Street. This work taps into issues of belonging, domesticity, and the ways we embody culture and memory."

WHEN: 5-6:30pm Friday, September 4 (performance)
+ 12-5pm Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6 (installation)
WHERE: The Dianich Gallery, 139 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
TICKETS + RESERVATIONS: Free. No reservations.

presented by Marfa Live Arts
performed by Lower Left
Margaret Paek, Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Andrew Wass, Nina Martin, and Leslie Scates
with guests Kylie Phillips, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, and Gretchen Lee Coles
Friday, August 14 & Saturday 15, 2015
Crowley Theater 7:30 pm
Marfa, Texas
free and open to the community.

A rigorous collaboration between dancers/co-creators Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Sunghe Paek and cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster

Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 8 p.m.
2125 Stanley Street comes to Amherst College.
Presented by the Copeland Colloqium 2015: Word in Transit
Webster Hall, Studio 2: see map here
Post performance Q&A and reception hosted by The Common
Free and open to the public.
**Please note seating is limited, reserve in advance by emailing:
dahlia.nayar@gmail.com

Saturday, April 11th, 2015 7:30 p.m.
2125 Stanley Street at the Dance Hall, in Kittery, Maine
Tickets: $16 in advance/ $20 at the door. Reserve Here

a full evening work by Chris Ferris & Dancers
Fri. and Sat. November 21 and 22 at 8:00pm
Sun. November 23, at 7:00 pm
Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune Street, New York NY 10014
(between Washington St. & West Side Hwy)
choreography: Chris Ferris
music: Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
dancers: Louisa Armstrong, Erin DeLucia-Benson, Gianna Lafronza, Kim Machaby, Annastasia Mercedes, Cecly Placenti, Mary Kate Sickel, & Diane Skerbec

Friday, November 14, 2014
7:00pm - All Ages
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, USA
String trio Trio Tritticali performs with special guest dancers Sarah Pope and Jennifer Wilenta in an evening of original, cutting-edge string music and dance. The concert will feature originals by trio members Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello), Helen Yee (violin), and Conservatory faculty member, Leanne Darling (viola).

October 12, 2015 at 2 PM
OMI International Arts Center
The Field Sculpture Park & Architecture OMI
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY
In June, Harrison Atelier, created a pavilion that is an undulating canopy of networked spaces sited at the edge of the forest and field in Architecture Omi's rolling landscape. Harrison Atelier will again present Species Niches, a site specific performance at the pavilion, in conjunction with the Fall Exhibition Opening. The performance will be choreographed by James McGinn and music composed by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster.

2125 Stanley Street: Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Paek, and Loren Dempster
Trio Tritticali: Helen Yee, Leanne Darling, and Loren Dempster
*Seattle: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
The Chapel
4649 Sunnyside Ave, Seattle, Washington
8 p.m: Trio Tritticali
9 p.m: Performance of 2125 Stanley Street
*Portland: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
Performance Works NW
4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR
7:30 p.m. Evening length performance of 2125 Stanley Street
8:30 Refreshments and live music by Trio Tritticali
$10-20 at the door
*San Francisco: Saturday, August 16th, 2014
Nichiren Hokke Buddhist Church
2016 Pine St, San Francisco, CA
7 p.m. Evening length performance of 2125 Stanley Street
8 p.m. Refreshments and live music by Trio Tritticali
$15 suggested donation
*Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Looping installation performance of 2125 Stanley Street.
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
2-6 p.m. (3:30-5:30 p.m. recommended time)
Free and Open to the Public

Saturday July 19th, Sunday July 20th & Saturday July 26th, Sunday July 27th 2014 at 5pm. Free
Meet at Soissons Landing
(where the Ferry from Manhattan enters Governers Island)
created by Gabriel Forestieri
Music by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
Performed by Ryan Yamauchi, Kevin Fay, Joshua Stansbury, Charlie Mosey, Kensaku Shinohara,
Tim O'Donnell, Gabriel Forestieri, Jeffrey Lyon, and Adam Gauzza

OMI International Arts Center
The Field Sculpture Park & Architecture OMI
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY
2014 Season Opening—Saturday, June 14, 1.00–5.00 p.m. Harrison Atelier inaugurates their installation “Species Niches” with a live performance.
Dancers: Silas Riener, Rashaun Mitchell and Cori Kresge.
Musicians: Alex Waterman (cello), Christa Robinson (oboe), Erica Dicker (violin), Andrew Drury (percussion) and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello, electronics and composer).

20th SEATTLE FESTIVAL OF DANCE IMPROVISATION - August 2013
Thursday, August 1st, 2013, 8 pm, $12
Closing Night Performance
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, 7 pm, free
Margaret Paek & Eleanor Dempster-Paek, Julie Lebel, June & Leonie, Miriam Colvin, Andrew Wass, Kelly Dalrymple Wass & Magdalena Wass, Shelley Senter & Luca Cristo, Nina Martin, Leslie Scates, John, Anna, Ayla & Dakota Dixon.
Music By Stuart Dempster, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster

August 2-4 2013
Project Limb
Brooklyn Bridge park.
Music and Dream recordings by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
Script Adrian Jevicki
The performers are
Chantal Baudouin, Kristen Carcone, Hope Davis, Gabriel Forestieri, Adam Gauzza, Elena Hecht, Ted Johnson, Alex Lyons, Careena Melia, Charlie Mosey, Troy Ogilvie, Allison Sale, Anna Schon, Elizabeth Washington

The Invisible Dog February 7-9, 2013
World Premiere Concept and Design by Seth and Ariane Harrison of Harrison Atelier
Harrison Atelier team: Jeremy Steiner, Christos Bolos, Sierra Cobb
Choreography by Silas Riener performed by Silas Riener, Rashaun Mitchell and Cori Kresge
Music Composition by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
performed by
Joshua Kohl (conductor)
Julie Haagenson (soprano)
Biraj Barkakaty (counter-tenor)
David Watson (bagpipe)
Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (lyre and bagpipe)
Geoff Gersh (lyre)
Arthur Solari (lyre)
Sound Software by Jesse Stiles Lighting Design by Davison Scandrett Costume Design by Trevor Ballin with Julia Donaldson

January 20th, 2013
A piece created and performed by Margaret Paek, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Eleanor Dempster-Paek, Marion Ramirez, Jung Woong Kim, Ari Ramirez-Kim & Minkyong Ji
in this new movement, improvisation, and performance festival presented by Nicole Bindler, Curt Haworth, Mascher Space Coop, Philly PARD, and University of the Arts.
Sunday Jan 20th 6pm
$10/ $8
at Philly PARD
Philadelphia, PA

Circuitous Body
Fri Nov 30th & Sat Dec 1st, 2012
Take Root festival
at Green Space
37-24 24th Street, Ste 301 & 302
Long Island City, NY 11101
8:30pm

Chris Ferris & Dancers
Circuitous Body
Sunday, April 22 2012
8:00pm
Roulette, Brooklyn NY
Choreography: Chris Ferris
composer: Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
dancers: Melissa Brading, Grace DiLorenzo, Haley Hauglum,
Kristen Mangione, & Alexandra Rose
musicians: Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (cello), Leanne Darling (viola), & Helen Yee (violin, yangqin), & Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer)

Thurs, Oct 4, 2012
at Incubator Arts Project
St. Mark's Church-in the Bowery
131 East 10th Street
NYC, NY 10003
2nd floor

by projectLIMB
Sun, Sept 23, 2012
dawn to dusk
throughout Manhattan

Stuart Dempster (trombone) & Loren Dempster (cello)
Aug 31, 2012
at The Stone
corner of Ave C & 2nd Street, NYC
8pm
An exploratory dig within two side-by-side Dempsters that, besides cello and trombone, will include conchs, didjeridus, voices, and little instruments including cheap (and maybe not so cheap) electronics, “Putting the ‘play’ back into playing music!” Dedicated to Bill Duckworth.

Aug 28, 2012
at Caffe Vivaldi
32 Jones Street,
New York, NY 10014
9:30-11pm

May 2012
At the invitation of singer Alicia Hall Moran and musician/composer Jason Moran to be a part of their residency, Margaret Paek directed this all-star collaboration with performers and their progeny for the 2012 Whitney Museum Biennial.
co/motion performers:
Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, Malcolm and Jonas Moran
Chisa Hidaka
Dahlia Nayar and Ruth Susheela
Emily Moore
Lanette Costas, Nathaniel Stampley, Ayana and Isaiah Stampley
Margaret Paek, Loren Dempster and Eleanor Dempster-Paek
Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo, Rio and Matteo Loo
Rebecca Bryant
Stacy Spence and Alexis Argilla-Spence
Tami Stronach and Maya Steinbruner Stronach
Tracy Nuñez

Jonah Bokaer, Choreographer
Loren Dempster Performed John Cage’s cello piece “one eight,” for On Vanishing at the Guggenheim, NY, NY, July 2011, at Maison Jean Vilar, Avignon, FR, Feb 2012, at Asia Society, Houston, TX, May 2012.

Concept and Design by Harrison Atelier
Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
November 25-30 2011
Choreography by Silas Riener, Performers: Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, Jamie Scott, and Melissa Toogood;
Sound Design & Composition by Loren Dempster;
Lighting Design by Aaron Copp and Nick Houfek

concept & direction by Margaret Paek
Music by Loren Dempster
performance by Eleanor Dempster-Paek, Margaret Paek, & Loren Dempster;
Isaiah Stampley, Ayana Stampley, & Lanette Costas;
Magdalena Wass, Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, & Andrew Wass;
Maya Steinbrunner Stronach & Tami Stronach;
Mateo Loo, Rio Loo, & Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo;
Ruth Susheela & Dahlia Nayar;
Rebecca Bryant.

In Movement Research's Fall Festival-December 2011
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC.

Anchises premiered at the Pavilion Dance in Bournemouth, UK and toured to the Arnolfini Theater, Bristol, UK and to the Abrons Art Center at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. Fall 2010
Choreography Jonah Bokaer
Visual Design Ariane Harrison, Seth Harrison
Performers Jonah Bokaer, Meg Harper, Valda Setterfield, James McGinn, Catherine Miller
Lighting Aaron Copp
Music and Sound Design Loren Dempster
Live Performances in New York City included Stuart Dempster