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“Kim Ip is a New Zealand born, Queer femme, first generation Chinese American choreographer and movement artist based in the Bay Area. KRIMM’S DANCE PARTY, her ongoing dance performance project, is inspired by femme fatales of film noir and video vixens of pop culture. The physicality of her choreography utilizes release floor work, hip hop, and contemporary dance. Thematically she creates work about gods, otherworldly creatures, and pop stars highlighting the rigidity of their roles in society and how they might be liberated through the act of dance and the cultural exchange that is live performance. Kim makes dance that intersects entertainment with cultural poetics. She has received residencies from Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, SafeHouse, and CounterPulse. She has been commissioned and curated by Edge on the Square, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, CounterPulse, B4BEL4B Gallery, and Gray Area. In addition to contemporary dance practice and nightlife performing, she is teaching dance to elders at Crescent Park Apartments in Richmond and believes in the cultural exchange of music and dance through being in intergenerational dance spaces.”
 
 
🎈Class Registration Link in Bio 🎈 Teaching Dance Class This Tuesday and Thursday 10-12pm :) This class is all levels. If you know you like music then you probably know how to dance and if you feel your heart beat then you definitely know how to fee
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Felt Cute. How's your soul? Is it hungry? In what way can you meet you? It's taken me a long...7 years to get over my anxiety around perfection in dancing and trying new things but once I loosened my grip I felt surprise, joy, and pleasure...oh and
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**Class Announcement** Subbing for the inimitable Bianca Cabrera @carmelita_bancini this coming Monday 1/23 and 1/30 at Shawl Anderson. **Playlist is gonna be bomb.com and we are gonna gently pop tf off and get undulate-y and sweaty. One inversion in
Scroll past me to find lots of waterworks in it's various states of beauty. Getting to travel around Maui with Killian, my good friend and roomie is a gift! A blessing. Much to laugh about. And a shared comfort and protection in...the wild 😜 I thi
I had been avoiding the grieving process of saying goodbye to my alma mater. I read emails about lawsuits and google docs about trying to save this school and all the creativity, FREEDOM, and art that poured out of this school. And simultaneously kn

Find me on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/krimmip/

Find me in the MEDIA:

https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/27/san-francisco-chinatown-contemporary-arts-festival-under-the-same-sun/

(Commission for Edge on the Square 2nd Annual Contemporary Art Festival//September 2023)

https://www.jen-norris-dance-rev.com/post/review-kim-ip-krimm-s-dance-party-you-don-t-deserve-us

(Commission for ODC’S State of Play Festival//June 2022)

https://youtu.be/kaJ74TRc7go?si=EBVCq9rDdpbvVi1r

(“Creating New Worlds” interview for CounterPulse Nov 2021)

https://youtu.be/tMAeSLHs9eA?si=Ks2Dck5L4lCx-Ydu

(Artist Talk feature for Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture//September 2021)

CV

 

 Place/Date of Birth: Wellington, New Zealand/July 03, 1992/Naturalised U.S. Citizen as of 2001/Daughter to an immigrant from China

 

Education

DanceWEB Scholarship Recipient, Vienna, Austria 5 week Mentorship and Participant at ImPulszTanz Festival 2023

Atomic Allure, Oakland, CA, Ongoing Student of Pole and Exotic Dance

Mills College, Oakland, CA BA in Dance and Choreography 2010-2014

Performance Research

Princess Drag Show: Drag Queen/King/Go-Go Dancer Oasis Night Club, San Francisco, CA, Ongoing Research of Queer Nightlife 2019-Present

Clutch the Pearls Drag Queen/King Makeout Room, San Francisco, CA, Ongoing Research of the intersection of Queer Burlesque, Drag, when Professional Dancers become Drag Queens 2021-present

Angels Drag Queen/King Aunt Charlie’s, San Francisco, CA, Ongoing Research of longtime drag venue Aunt Charlies located in the Trans District/Tenderloin. Curated by Maria Silk. 2021-present

Creature Drag Show: Avant-Garde Go-Go, STUD Bar, San Francisco, CA, Served Looks, Produced, Improvised inside of Themed Installations with Pseuda, 2016-2020.

 

Choreography

Planting Beneath Shade Trees : Commissioned for Edge on the Square Gallery 2nd Annual Contemporary Arts Festival, September 30, 2023, Chinatown, San Francisco, CA

Standard Impatiens : Curated by Gabriele Christian for PPP or “This is What I Want Festival” for Gravity/Jess Curtis, May 14, 2023, San Francisco, CA

It’s Like Groundhog Day Everyday Redux Premiere: November 18th, 2022, Mills College, Oakland, CA

 

You Don’t Deserve Us Premiere: June 9, 2022, State of Play Festival for ODC, San Francisco, CA

 

Kindred Swell Premiere: September 17, 2021, Site-Specific Performance Commission for Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA

 

Are:Era Premiere: April 14, 2021, Director of Choreography and Collaboration with Pseuda for the Combustible Residency at CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

 

It’s Like Groundhog Day Everyday Premiere: December 11, 2020, Online Co-production with CounterPulse, filmed on site, and premiered as a watch party on Twitch, San Francisco, CA

A Crossroad Premiere: November 22, 2019, SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, CA

December 5, 2019, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA

 

Trollop and Trophy  Premiere: September 13, 2019, Curated for RAWdance, War Memorial Green Room, San Francisco, CA

 

A Road. Premiere: July 13, 2019, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA

 

I’m Not a Girl… Premiere: June 29, 2019, All Gold Print Studio, Berkeley, CA

 

Ceremonious Present Premiere: April 4, 2019, CounterPulse Theatre, San Francisco, CA

 

Lazy Gaze v.2 Premiere: December 9, 2017, Purple Palace, Oakland, CA

 

Steep in Here Premiere: November 18, 2017, Curated by Tiare Ribeaux for Vital Hybrids, Gray Area Theatre, San Francisco, CA

 

Lazy Gaze Premiere: June 21, 2017, SafeHouse Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

She’s Gouda Premiere: May 20, 2017, Western Sky Studios, Berkeley, CA

 

To My Shell, in Time Premiere: January 1, 2017, Gray Area Theatre, San Francisco, CA

 

Birdie Boo Premiere: July 30, 2016 Berkeley City Ballet, Berkeley, CA

 

 

Residencies

Updraft Residency, Bandaloop Studio, Oakland, CA April 2024-June 2024

Paul Dresher Residency, Paul Dresher Studio, Oakland, CA, January 2022-May 2022

AirSPACE Fellowship Program, SAFEHouse Arts, San Francisco, CA, February 2019-November 2019

 

Edge Residency (ARC Program), CounterPulse Theatre, San Francisco, CA, November 2018-April 2019

 

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center 100 Hour Residency, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley, CA, January 2017-December 2017

 

RAW Artist Residency, SAFEHouse Arts, San Francisco, CA, January 2016-June 2016

 

Collaborations: Direction, Dramaturgy, Contributing Choreographer

REBIRTH Premiere: May 19, 2024, collaboration with Hollow Eve and OAKLASH in honour of Phatima Rude, Omni Commons, Oakland, CA

Flowers and Fog Premiere: May 17, 2024, Contributing Director and Choreographer for Melissa Lewis Wong and Joy Lewis, Gateway Theatre, San Francisco, CA

QDF Solo (untitled) (in process) December 2023-March 2024, Dramaturg and co-director for Styles Alexander, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

Queer Ecologies: A Stitch to a New Sparkle  Premiere: September 8, 2022-December 2023, Collaboration with Textiles Artist Liz Harvey, San Jose Museum of Textiles/Lincoln Square Park, Oakland, CA/Paul Dresher Residency

MatchBox #2 October 22, 2019, Curated by Kinetech, Collaboration w/ Architect, Dasha Ortenberg, CounterPulse Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Space to Breathe, October 15, 2018, Collaboration w/ Installation Artist Sofie Ramos, Fort Mason Guard House, San Francisco, CA

Darkest Dream EP Tour Choreography Premiere: February 20, 2017, Commission for SATURNRISIN9 Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA 

SwitchBoard SF for Bill Baird, Collaboration w/ Electronic Musician Bill Baird, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Ben Tinker Salon, Collaboration w/ Electronic Musician Ben Tinker, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Chorus, 12 Hour Installation w/ Heather Stockton and Michael Mersereau, Ridge Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

 

Film + Music Videos

Jubilant Vex October 27, 2022, Choreography + Film Collaboration with Jeremy Snowden, San Francisco, CA

 

Hollywood Babylon: Harpies and Hades June 13, 2019 Choreography for Michael Mersereau, Oakland, CA

 

Daily Dance April 17, 2019 Choreography for Bill Baird Music Video, Emeryville, CA

 

Cynanovisions October 25, 2018 Choreography for Tiare Ribeaux, B4BEL4B, Oakland, CA

 

x(xx) January 1, 2017 Choreography for vainhein and Viktor Belmont, Oakland, CA

 

Night Sprints April 28, 2016 Choreography for Heather Stockton and KYN, Oakland, CA 

 

“ceremonious present”//April 2019

CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

A what-if dance allegory of Goddess, Quan Yin, and what would happen if she descended from the Heavens (tradition) to Earth (pleasure and deviance).

Commissioned for the 2019 CounterPulse Edge Residency.

“It’s Like groundhog day every day redux”//November 2022

Lisser Theatre, Oakland, CA

A David Lynchian love letter to Britney Spears and an exploration of her live choreographic repertoire in response to the social media and paparazzi ridicule following her end of conservatorship. This is one iteration of a 5-year research dance project on the impact Spears has had on my own sensuality, sexuality and fandom.