Biography
Dancer/Musician/Vocalist Dohee Lee is the founder of the groundbreaking PURI Project. Born out of her desire to create a new art form, in 2004 she founded the group, an innovative project in which the goal is to present elements of dance, music, spoken word, visual art, and audience participation within the context of their performances.She studied Korean traditional dance and dumming music at the master level in Korea and she is also graduated from Tamalpa Institute in U.S.A. Since her arrival in the US, she has been a vital contributor to both the traditional and contemporary Asian American Cultural Arts landscape of the Bay area and beyond. Her many accomplishments from the past few years including being the resident artist and instructor of the Koran youth cultural center, a community –based organization focused on Korean arts. She has performed in various ethnic dance festivals, including the Asian American Dance Performance and the Asian American Jazz Festival in San-Francisco and Chicago. Since 2001, she has worked on project with leader of the Asian American Creative Arts scene, including dancer/choreographer Sue Li Jue’s Facing East Dance and Music, Modern dance company Kunst-Soff as a composer and performer, Butoh dancer/choreographer Shinichi Iova Koga’s Inkboat, Saxophoinst/composer Francis Wong, Jeff Chan, Pianist Jon Jang, Chicago bassist Tatsu Aoki, Cellist Joan Jearnrenaud, Okkyung Lee, Theresa Wong and Saxophonist/composer Lawrence Orhs and Scott Amendala. She also has collaborated on new work with Nanos Operetta, the Kronos Quartet and Choreographer/dancer Anna Halprin. She presented world Premier production “FLUX” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2008 and Perspectives of Kronos Quartet series at New York Carnegie Hall, Zankel hall in 2010 .
