Hi I’m 채송

You can learn about the origin and sound of my name through this online dictionary.

I am a theater director and educator. I wrestle with the concept of "kind rage." It is a practice, tendency, and sentiment that recontextualizes inherited and embodied pain to build communal, imaginative, and rebellious spaces. These are manifested through an interdisciplinary emphasis on the body and its site.

I make performances of a wide variety. This includes new plays, reinterpretation of canons, and musicals, as well as what I recently started calling “hyphenated theater”: documentary-, devised-, dance-, music-, site-specific, immersive, and other interdisciplinary works.

What stays constant as I traverse through these disciplines is my passion for telling the stories of traveling bodies in the in-between spaces, somatic impact of colonization, and how all of these intersect with the feminine and queer gaze. I especially gravitate towards narratives and histories of immigration, diaspora, nation/state violence, war, transgenerational trauma, and intergenerational gift.

Currently, I work as the Commissioned Artist and Education Manager at Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong and Company). With Pink Fang, I am devising the twelfth iteration of an intermedia project, She Walks the Air, co-instructing the Multicultural Theater Performance course at Hunter College, and facilitating New York City Public School Professional Development workshops.

As a scholar, writer, and educator, I have written for The Korean Theatre Review, spoken for The Korea Theatre Association’s seminar, co-created the Hidden Voices: AAPI Experience - Documentary Theater in the style of Pink Fang (Formerly Ping Chong and Company) curriculum for NYCPS, and taught 17 classrooms across the Metropolitan New York Area of Secret Histories Arts-in Education program, including for New Jersey Performing Arts Center and International School Theatre Association. I’m also a proud member of the Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group — Cohort 6 and an Associate Member of the SDC.

I owe so much of what I practice to the visionary artists I got to perform for including Ping Chong, Okwui Okpokwasili, Samita Sinha, Claire Chase, and Constellation Chor, with/for whom I got to be in spaces including La MaMa, Danspace, The Kitchen, National Sawdust, Judson Church and Biophony - Metropolis Ensemble. Thanks to them, I see through Deep Listening, listen through Contact Improvisation, and hear through Kinesthetic Awareness. I am also grateful for opportunities I had to synthesize my inspirations through scholarships and residencies from LMCC, New York State Council on the Arts, Bearnstow, and Seoul Dance Center; as well as Columbia University, where I graduated with an MFA in Theater Directing.

empathetic

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liminal

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multicultural

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decolonizing

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collaborative

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multi-hyphenated

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innovative

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embodied

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empowering

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questioning

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caring

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community building

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social justice driven

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empathetic 〰️ liminal 〰️ multicultural 〰️ decolonizing 〰️ collaborative 〰️ multi-hyphenated 〰️ innovative 〰️ embodied 〰️ empowering 〰️ questioning 〰️ caring 〰️ community building 〰️ social justice driven 〰️