Jang Eun Jung Dance Company / Q&A

 

There is one ordinary man and one cynical woman. He carefully attempts to talk to her, chasing her scent. The relationship, camouflaged as a word ‘understanding’, lies somewhere between passivity and despair. JANG Eun-jung portrays the sameness in the difference, the harmony in the disharmony and the balance in the imbalance in this piece, using the texture, speed and space of the movements by the dancer. Premiered at the 2006 Seoul Platform of The Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Q&A was acclaimed for approaching the aesthetics of contemporary dance in a new perspective and embodying both artistic quality and exquisite taste. This piece is a new version of Q&A, and was adapted for performance in Spain in 2011.

 

"The Performance portrays a strong passion to search for a new side of ‘me’, while at the same time embracing the feeling of despair and loneliness of her dance. It shows one of the true essences of dance-using body as a method of sharing the feelings and confidences of a dancer. I believe that it was a great success in revealing a brand new view of modern dance." (SUNG Gi-suk, Dance Critic)

Spring Dance Theater / Arirang Arariyo - Lovesick

 

Since its establishment in 2002, the Spring Dance Theater, led by the artistic director CHOI Kyung-shil, has actively created new works and performed in and outside of Korea. Based on the Oriental thoughts and views, CHOI Kyung-shil reveals the self-examination, human relationships and social themes through her keen sensitivity and humor. She works in pursuit of making a language of dance, by finding the originality of movements from all things in the universe, human nature and unconsciousness. The Spring Dance Theater has created its own dance style with delicate, lyrical and dynamic movements.

 

2009 Toured in Arabic International Contemporary Dance Festivals (Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, Israel and Palestine)
2008 Performed Give me Water at International Tanzmesse nrw, Germany 

EDx2 Dance Company

 

Modern Feeling 
A homage for two dancers' relationship with a variety of styles
Modern Feeling is a homage to the bond between two dancers. It explores their first meeting, conflict, compromise, apathy and other everyday feelings aroused by two people working together. Its forte is the versatility, a wide variety of dance styles and genres, which encompass contemporary choreography, hip hop, break dancing, martial arts, and acrobatics. The ideas, movements and composition of this work are characterized by versatility and intense physical movement, accentuated by strength and precision

 

What We've Lost
"Can we be happy in our ‘reality’ without imagination, without dreams? Do I still imagine, still dream?" What We’ve Lost examines themes of "imagination and reality", "fantasy and illusion", and "retrospection and memory" through the essential machinations of the stage and expressive dance movements grafted from mime. Uniformed school girls, childish kids and neighborhood hoodlums, like characters from a cartoon, appear in the first scene to create a crowd of people whom we often saw in our youth, in our neighborhoods. They play "imaginary football" with an invisible object. The choreographer weaves together imaginary items like "superheroes" and "an invisible man" that we once dreamed of, within the limits of reality. We question whether we’re forgetting the secrets of fantasy, the freedom of imagination in our real world and whether we irretrievably lose sight of them as we go through our daily lives. In-soo LEE uses his unique understanding of hip hop and contemporary dance to create a diverse tapestry of body movements as a background to highlight idiosyncratic characters and the theatrical machinations of storytelling to skillfully graft theatre onto dance in What We’ve Lost.

 

2011 Auditorium of Tenerife, Tenerife/Miller Building, Las Palmas, Spain
2011 Korean Dance Express in Cuba
XVI Festival Internacional de Danza en Paisajes Urbanos; Habana Vieja Ciudad en Movimiento
2010 Korean Dance in Europe, Kore-A Moves
Tanzhaus NRW(Germany), Mousonturm(Germany), tadsschouwburg(Netherlands), laho Auditorium(Portugal), Dansenshus(Sweden), The Place(UK)
2010 Received the 3rd Prize at No-Ballet_5. INTERNATIONALER CHOREOGRAPHIE WETTBEWERB LUDWIGSHAFEN
2009 Tel Aviv Dance Festival, Suzanne Dellal Centre, Israel
2009 New York Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival

 

PARK SOON HO Dance Company

  

Pattern & Variability was inspired by judo. Aggression, the human instinct, stays inside us and continuously needs an exit. Sports have been developed as a chance to release our violent urges. This piece embodies the symbolic meaning of sports by using harmonious images of rhythm, movement and space. It was created for the Asia-Africa Dance Exchange program performed by African and Asian dancers and a musician at the Seoul International Dance Festival 2008. The mixed sensitivities of Asia and Africa create distinctive rhythms, movements and energy. The work has been performed several times in local theaters and received the 2009 Performing Arts & Film Review Award for Choreography.

 

Balance and Imbalance
Looking for the Origin of Korean Sound and Movement
Body movements and sounds are the oldest and most basic tools for human beings to express themselves. Focused on these “body movements and sounds”, we present ourselves and communicate with others. In this work, we try to look into “the sound made by the body, the movements made from the sound”. The body, which perceives us and others, makes sounds, and through this process the relationship with others is circulated and expanded by repeating balance and imbalance. Right in the center of this, there is excitement created by the body movements and sound.

 

“A young Korean artist meditates and dances in flickering movements. PARK Soon-ho transmits the astonishing stimulation of the art of Asian dance. He shows us that far-eastern dance can be sensitive, expressive and significantly featured.”
- Franz Schubert, Germany
“A thrilling dancer, PARK Soon-ho touches us with a fascinating Korean tradition.”
His amazing performance finds out the calmness from the lost space. Soon-Ho’s performance is unforgettable and impressive enough to make us hesitate whether to choose between Ray Charles or Baroque string music” - Gesa Polert, Rheinische Post,Germany
“He amazingly shows us what is contemporary Korean dance and what is his own contemporary work and he is now a big star in Zaragoza”
- Natividad Buil Franco, the artistic director of Zaragoza Trayectos