The final episode of legendary TV personality, Ava Su Gan-Wei’s long running public broadcast program, WOCIDJ. Over the course of the broadcast series, Ava Su has explored dance, poetry, children’s education, and global politics with an abundance of charm, energy, and enthusiasm. Notably, by exploring the modern art form of improvisational dance, Ava Su created a new form of visual performance art titled, Synch Art: the Art of Synchronicity. As a blind and disabled individual, Ava Su dresses in a chromakey green dance outfit and dances along a green chromakey studio wall as images of nature, animals, and art are displayed digitally. The result is a series of wonderfully spontaneous interactions combining improvisational dance and yoga poses with a vivid life of imagery.
Goodbye, Farewell, Enjoy is the title of Ava Su’s final episode. The program is a touching reflection of the series, with a reading performance from the improvisational dance journal, Contact Quarterly by Emily Ashenfelter and Prophet Livingood. Folk hero, Owen Williams performs acoustic guitar and makes an appearance late in the program with award winning producer, Doug Chaney. Ava Su presents her final Chinese phonetical alphabet and some of her favorite Synch Art pieces from the series. Images displayed on the program range from rare pink dolphins, animal friends, and animal babies. As well, the classic “Red Rainbow Jellyfish” that first appeared on the program in 2008 is presented.
Ava Su plans to retire from Iowa’s frigidly dangerous winters to be near her younger sister in a more hospitable climate in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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