K-POP DISCO FEVER
presented in collaboration with Lincoln Center
Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 8 pm
Venue: The Restart Stage at Damrosch Park
(Amsterdam Ave & W 62nd St, New York, NY 10023)
This performance will have a standby line, formed at the venue entry. We recommend arriving 20 minutes before the performance, and we will begin seating standby guests 5 minutes before start time. While we'll do our best to accommodate as many guests as possible, we cannot guarantee admission.
*Please note, audiences will be STANDING for the duration of this event. Dancing strongly encouraged!
The international sensation that is K-Pop has infiltrated and influenced every level of contemporary music from the Billboard charts to the Broadway stage. Now the K-Pop summer comes to Lincoln Center.
Join us for a joyful dance party with your host DJ Gamma Vibes on the turntables spinning tracks from breakout artists like PSY all the way up to modern hitmakers like BTS, BLACKPINK and TWICE.
If you don’t know the steps, just follow the lead from I LOVE DANCE, the Queens-based K-Pop instructors and dance troupe, kicking it live.
For more information, please visit https://www.lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/show/k-popandnbspdisco-fever
*Health and safety are the top priority. In accordance with the New York State guidelines and in consultation with medical advisors, the Lincoln Center has implemented protocols to enhance safety for all staff, artists, and guests. Please visit here to learn more about the Lincoln Center’s health and safety guidelines.
▲ DJ Gamma Vibes
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Gamma Vibes (Mihye Kim) is a New York based electronic producer, DJ, and Vibraphonist from Korea. Gamma Vibes had her first exposure to music when she started learning the piano at the age of five. She developed a passion for percussion at the age of fifteen and then became fascinated with playing Jazz Vibraphone. In 2011, she graduated from Berklee College of Music.
Gamma Vibes performed with Mika Stoltzman group as a vibraphonist in Boston and NYC including their sold-out recital at Carnegie Hall in 2012 and Rockport Music Festival in 2012. With Mika Soltzman group, Gamma Vibes has performed with such celebrated classical and jazz artists as two-time GRAMMY award winner Richard Stoltzman, two-time Latin GRAMMY award winner Eddie Gomez, legendary drummer Steve Gadd, and jazz Marimbist Mika Stoltzman.
Since Gamma Vibes relocated to NYC from Boston, she has become an electronic music artist, known for her deep techno and minimal jazz electronic music style. She has been a guest DJ at many of New York’s hottest clubs and parties.
Gamma Vibes is a journey of musical innovation. Using the rare electronic vibraphone paired with contemporary synthesis equipment, Gamma delivers organic originality to every performance.
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I LOVE DANCE (ILD) was launched in 2006 by MJ Choi, and since its founding, it has evolved to galvanize the K-Pop culture in the greater NYC area.
Today, it provides K-Pop dance classes in Manhattan, Flushing, and Fort Lee NJ where classes are filled with a fun-loving, diverse group of K-Pop fans that share a very special bond. A truly unique characteristic of I LOVE DANCE is that despite its predominant K-Pop focus, more than 90% of its membership is non-Korean. The classmates of various backgrounds meet not only to learn dance, but also to socialize and embrace each other’s uniqueness. Truly, this has been a testament to the growing popularity of K-Pop culture, as well as the unifying characteristic of dance as an art form.
Currently, I LOVE DANCE has approximately 500 members enrolled in dance classes each month. Beyond offering top notch classes, I LOVE DANCE produces professional K-Pop cover videos (41+ million aggregate views to date on YouTube), hosts flash mobs, offers dance performances and workshops, and works to serve as an ambassador to spread K-Pop culture in the US.
▲ Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is the steward of the world’s leading performing arts center, an artistic and civic cornerstone for New York City comprised of eleven resident companies on a 16-acre campus. The nonprofit’s strategic priorities include: supporting the arts organizations that call Lincoln Center home to realize their missions and fostering opportunities for collaboration across campus; championing inclusion and increasing the accessibility and reach of Lincoln Center’s work; and reimagining and strengthening the performing arts for the 21st century and beyond, helping ensure their rightful place at the center of civic life.
(www.lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/series/restart-stages)