CENTER STAGE KOREA in Latin America 2010

Korea Arts Management Service, Fundación Teatro Nacional(Colombia) and the International Theater Festival of Belo Horizonte(Brazil) co-organize CENTER STAGE KOREA in Latin America. 3 selected groups will be toured to 2 countries and 3 cities in Latin America. And also, they will exchange their method through the professional workshop and open talk.

Go to see Fundación Teatro Nacional
Go to see International Theater Festival of Belo Horizonte

Woyzeck/ Sadari Movement Laboratory
Brazil, International Theater Festival of Belo Horizonte, Aug 13.15
Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Aug. 19.22

 

The Sadari Movement Laboratory (SML) fashions new techniques to rediscover and revitalize Georg Buchner’s proto-expressionist play about a soldier driven mad by the social order that dominates him. Using chairs as a changeable metaphor, the performers both shape the dramatic space and reveal the characters’ emotional states, while Astor Piazzola’s dynamic tango becomes an integral part of the dramatic flow.
The Sadari Movement Laboratory has taken on the task of creating a new dynamic interpretation of the play that illuminates the original’s hidden potential while advancing a new language in physical theater. SML is based on creative contributions from all company members, which make their version of Woyzeck both surprising and deeply moving.

Sadari Movement Laboratory was founded in 1998 by IM Do-Wan. The performers are fully engaged in producing each theatrical experience from analysis and translation of the text through to bringing it to life with kinetic images and versatile, economic movements. Stepping beyond dialogue and realist conventions, the company believes actors can express the social and psychological states of their characters more poignantly by utilizing separate spaces and dynamic rhythms that stress physical capabilities and characteristics. Through rigorous training and focused experimentation, Sadari Movement Laboratory is committed to finding a new theatrical style and language for both Korean and international audiences.

Let Me Change Your Name/ Ahn Eun-Me Dance Company
Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Aug. 26.29

 

In Let Me Change Your Name?, dancers of different nationalities come together to explore the merging and clashing of different cultures - creating a world of alter-reality that transcends normal time and space and allows bodies to be reborn with different colors. Whether it be about stereotypical ideas, repetitions in daily life, collapsing boundaries, the escape from and return to a society of anonymity, and reconciliation with the unfamiliar, Ahn Eun-Me deconstructs and reconstructs a mosaic of different approaches to perceiving reality. The topic of discourse is the human body. The stage is a hubbub (of dances) that pulsates like living words. Onstage, the spirit of dance and song connects the audience to the same spirit of dance inherent in our ancestors and to the very spirit of jocularity that is molded from the wisdom of people. In this spirit of dance and jocularity, the production offers to reinvent the very name and identity of audience viewers: would you let me change your name?

Ahn Eun-Me was trained in traditional Korean dance in her youth. In the 90s, she began combining the vitality and energy of life in post-colonial, modern day Korea and the technical, academic training she received at New York University's Tisch School of The Arts to create a delirious dance form distinctively her own. Creating her own vernacular articulation of the tanztheater flux of the German dance scene, Ahn became celebrated as a cultural icon of Korea in the 90s. In the mid-90s, Ahn was also recognised as a talented choreographer, known for building up a pan-Asian tanztheater based on multi-cultural backgrounds and values from modern Asian societies.

3nights 3days / Now Dance Company
Colombia Bogota, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Sept. 2.5 
Colombia Medellín, Teatro Universitario Camilo Torres, Sept. 7

 

"3 Nights and 3 Days" is about the living, the dead, and people wandering around in between. The main theme of the work begins from the simple concept that being dead or alive is not something special; it is just the natural flow of nature. However, the meaning inherent in this idea is profound and deeply philosophical.
During the performance, the life of the dead is retraced and slumber is chased away with a game of flower cards. After the life of the deceased flashes back from the beginning to the end, the three-day funeral is over. Finally, people load the deceased and his journey of life onto a boat, a metaphor of life and death as an accident of nature and the natural circle of all things in heaven and earth. People, one by one, disappear to where everyone must go in the end.

The Now Dance Company is putting a new source of energy into the dance scene by advocating new modes of creative work using prototypical sources from traditional Korean dance. The company possesses more than 50 repertoires and programs ranging from traditional dance to contemporary dance and collaboration work with international companies. The company was invited to the 2nd Festival International De Danza Morelos and the 15th Festival International De Danza - Maracaibo 2009 and has made a successful debut in Latin America.

[Events]
Reception
Colombia Bogota, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Aug. 19, 22:30 
 
Academic Events

Sadari Movement Laboratory
Talk with Artists Brazil, Galpao Cine Horto, Aug..13
Master Class Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Aug..19
Open Talk Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Aug..21
 
Ahn Eun-Me Dance Company
Master class Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Aug..27
Open talk Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Aug..28

Now Dance Company
Master class Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Sept..3
Open talk Colombia, Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Sept..4

* All the academic events will be held at 11:00 am
* Open talks are free entrance
* Master classes are for professional dancers and artists working with their bodies

For more information, please contact: 
Jueun AN 
International Development Department, Korea Arts Management Service
Tel. +82(0)2 708 2281 / E-mail: jueun@gokams.or.kr