company bio

Despina Sophia Stamos and Wen-Shuan Yang have been collaborating since 1997 when they met touring with H.T. Chen and Dancers. Upon leaving the company, they continued their exploration of a dance aesthetic inspired by personal and cultural affinities and idiosyncrasies.

Ms. Stamos is from Greece; Ms. Yang is Taiwan. Their creative process is stimulated by their cross-cultural curiosity of their respective folklore, ethics, and perspectives. Their shared interest in reinterpreting visually compelling objects and images, through choreographic concepts and games, leads them to twist and re-contextualize the ordinary, exposing new perceptual possibilities.

Since they started creating work and performance projects in 1997, their compositions have appeared in many formal and alternative venues including P.S. 1/MOMA, Dance Theater Workshop, the La Mama Annex, Performing Space 122, Joyce Soho, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Culture Project, The German Consulate, Stoneham Theater in Massachusetts, Howl Festival, Raw Space, Velvet Lounge, Smack Melon Gallery, Sky and a four week European tour, the German Consulate in NYC, Deli Dances and Oasis at Chashama Theater, Galapagos, The Frying Pan, the Upper Manhattan Arts Project, Surf Reality, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Spannwerk in Berlin, Boudoire Bar, TIXE, a 24 hour performance on a Staten Island Ferry, Thompson Square Park, Bryant Park, Battery Park, 42nd Street Subway Station, Subtonic, Volume, Air Space, Altman Building, inside of a man-operated elevator, and many New York warehouse arts events… Most recently they taught a one-week performance workshop and created a large scale site specific performance at an abandoned school in Luquillo, Puerto Rico.

They have also collaborated with Peter Fuchs on a multi-media web-cast performance, Pink Vibes, at the Franklin Street subway station in New York City and an experimental performance project at the Shauspielhaus in Vienna.