Komo Dance Works & Dance Continua present Goddess Works to Future Works
Goddess Works to Future Works is a two-act dance program exploring the past, present, and future of movement as a source of transformation and connection.
Act I: Goddess Works – Created by Sumi Komo and Komo DanceWorks, this performance draws from Goddess energy across cultures and history, incorporating Buddhist influences, mythological themes, and natural elements. Highlighting female Goddesses, the work awakes the divine feminine energy, embodying resilience, metamorphosis, and timeless wisdom.
Act II: Future Works – Presented by Dance Continua, this performance shifts the lens toward innovation and technology in movement. Using motion sensors, interactive systems, and physiological data, Future Works explores how body language, posture, and breath shape human connection in a digital world.
Together, these acts create a dynamic contrast–honoring tradition while embracing the possibilities of dance for the future; with the human body remaining the ultimate technology.
Instructor
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Sumi KomoSumi started studying Ballet as a young girl. She had a teacher who had been in Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Sumi danced through high school.social dancing of time…and started opening up to broader views of consciousness and Movement.
When she was 16 she went to Sarah Lawrence College where she trained in Modern and Composition and Choreography….and Philosophy and Psychology.Bessie Schornberg told her to go to Merce when she graduated! And of course she did.
She danced in New York with various people in Cunningham lineage…including Carolyn Brown, Mel Wong and others.
She has taught Cunninghàm technique and Indeterminancy for decades ..and her Choreography won awards in Boulder 30 years ago.
SHE has an MFA in Dance, Psychology and Sports Medicine…
And created workshops for dancers called Alexander technique for the Conscious Dancer..which she taught at Colorado Dance Festival in the 1990s.She has had her company:
Komo Danceworks starting in Boulder in 1990.
in 1998 she want to Austin and started all over.!
In 2018 she came back here to Boulder to begin yet again and be inspired by mountains and sky and the openness of Boulder Consciousness and Dance..Sumi is thrilled to be offering teachings of Cunningham Dance and Alexander at Block 1750!
