Pooh Kaye
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Pooh Kaye (born 1961 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican born American choreographer and filmmaker, noted for her use of the stop motion technique and choreography in film.[1] She founded her dance company Eccentric Motion in 1983, whose past dancers included Sasha Waltz.[2][3]
Kaye received her BA from Cooper Union and her MFA from Bennington College.[4] Earlier in her career Kaye was associated with the post modern dance of Simone Forti and in 1976 danced in the guise of a bird in Forli's The Institute for Art and Urban Resources presents Group Works at PS1 in New York.[citation needed]
John Howell wrote in Artforum of one of her performances in 1987 at Manhattan's Joyce Theater..."Kaye’s performances and films have been perfect examples of faux naïf events for nearly a decade. (Her principal mentor was another performer of extremely personalized idiosyncrasy, Simone Forti)"...[5] Her work was included in the 1985 Whitney Biennial. [6] Kaye is both a Guggenheim and McDowell Colony fellow.[7]
