Bora Yoon

"..she's like Music. with a body." - Allison Sniffin, Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble

"....a digital wonderwoman." "some kind of spooky girl.." - Sekou Sundiata

"These days it's still a radical act for a woman to stand up and speak her truth; yet without these 'rebels', the story never changes. Bora Yoon breaks the silence with her brave and honest songwriting. Another s/hero in the making..." - Pamela Means

"...An uplifting, empathetic sensibility and a fearless command of her voice... innovative beyond her years." - Rachael Sage

Yoon's music is tinged with the familiarity of decades of women singers. But her compositions are so compelling, her playing so skilled, that it’s difficult to find that familiarity unappealing. Yoon plays songs full of rhythm in words and instrumental asides, but her voice leads them in such a way that it’s like getting lost for five minutes in a river of soft water — it flows over and off you quickly but stays on your skin long after you’ve left. She’s got a voice that’s as addicting as the opening guitar lick to "Freebird" and finishes every other song with a laugh that says, "Well, that was fun." This and frequent lyrical standouts are elements of the vivacious, sharp personality with which she can knock out an audience." - Greg Storms

"...magical in the resonant space..." - Deborah Jowitt

"...operatic and intense, genre-scrambling and iconoclastic... She's wordy, confessional, poetic in a way that doesn't involve a lot of rhyming. Meaning her music is smart and different and, measured against the general run of people who sing and song-write, a cut or three above the rest." - Matthew Miller

"Proscenium is magic... conceptually elegant, instrumentally intimate, lyrically cathartic, fierce, healing, revealing, and mmmhmm-inducing poetry (I said poetry) from head to toe. It's music you can cry to, climb to and grind to and yes, I've done all three so far. Her artistry is surging and strong..." - Lenelle N. Moise

"...continues to alternately baffle and tease the human mind and soul with her witty lyrics and inspirational vocals...

...How can one begin to describe what it's like to listen to Bora Yoon? It is an experience which comes from every corner of the known world and still ends up sounding like the quietly-intoned, personal, heart-felt message of a small, quiet girl in the middle of that swirling whirpool which is our Earth.

But to say that she is quiet is not to say that she sounds quiet. Bora's gripping voice soars as appropriately as it needs to and simultaneously whispers when we need it the most. The quietude, therefore, is not a quality of her voice but the essence of her entire sound.

It's a quiet thought that creeps by unheard and then winds its way into your heart when you least expect it. Before you know what's going on, you're being moved by this epic musical tapestry that was woven in front of your living eyes. And you'll never be able to step away from that vision again." - Joseph Prusch

The site-specific choreographer Noémie LaFrance returns to the vast, empty pool in Greenpoint’s McCarren Park. This time, to fill the massive space, LaFrance’s troupe teams with dancers from Streb, the Young Dance Collective, Celeste Hastings and the Butoh Rockettes, and many others, and select audience participants, who perform unison moves they’ve learned in advance on the Web site.

Bora Yoon directs the live music as dancers swarm the pool and the featured characters—including an astronaut, a waitress, a butcher, and a roller skater—emerge. Meanwhile, a beat-boxer flies by on a bicycle, a stuntwoman breaks boards, a bunch of movers carry furniture, and people dash in with buckets of water, filling an inflatable pool. - Goings On About Town :: AGORA II