ARTIST FAIR : DANCE

   PORTABLE DANCE SHOW-CASE

Co-organized by

Performing Arts Market In Seoul (PAMS)

Seoul International Dance Festival(SIDance)

Oct. 6, 2005   1:30-4:30 PM

The National Theatre of Korea, Studio Byeol

ARTIST FAIR

This show-case focuses on artists' skills and creativities rather than their works. There are only Dance show-cases in 2005 and the participants are originative and talented Korean dancers who received international acclaim. As the audience can concentrate on watching the dancers' skills, it will be a good opportunity to other genre artists who have plans of co-productions or collaborations with dancers. After watching the dancers' work, there will be meetings with the dancers.

PORTABLE DANCE SHOW-CASE

The pieces in the show-case are portable solo and duet works which is easy to perform for international tour programs and small theatres. The program will be helpful to international directors and festival programmers who have plan of introducing Korean performing arts and domestic arts organizers who need creative works for small theatres. 

ARTIST (1) : KIM Sun- a

PROFILE

Ballet majored contemporary dancer KIM Sun-a graduated Ewha Womens Univ. estimated as witty, theatrical and technical dancer. And her technique purified exquisitely from ballet.

Recently her creations graft on ballet, mine and visual art diversely and featured domestically and abroad. Australia Adelaide Fringe Festival reference her choreography <My Wonderful Left Hook> as the highlight part choice and performed <My Old Giant Shoes> at Bangkok Fringe Festival as a invited artists and <Sayeonnamneo> at the 11th Korea ∙ Japan Dance Contact in 2002. She awarded the Excellent choreographing at ¡®Exhibition of Young Artists¡¯ which organized by Dance and People.

¡°Mime, some rather out of place contemporary quasi-ballet and beautiful solo cello played on stage all combine in this surprisingly successful production from Korea. The complex plot outlined in the handout is superfluous, detracting from the show's main strength - the two performer¡¯s extended mime sequences. They cover everything from childish play scholarly boxing ring. The other highlight is the unnamed cellist's passionate playing. Humor is frequent and often wry, and the 11pm crowd on opening night was warmly appreciative.¡± <Australia Adelaide Fringe Festival - Highlight ¡°My Wonderful Left Hook" Review, Celia Brissenden>

¡Ü TITLE :  Bong-Byul-Ki (The Love Story about the Eternal Parting between Lee-Sang and Kum-Hong)

The Nobel <Bong-Byul-Ki> is interpreting with Ballet

"Bong-Byul-Ki", spreading in the space, is saturated with the concept of person and with the unfamiliar fact everywhere.

the noble "Bong-Byul-Ki" by Lee-Sang (1910-1937) who denied the traditional life style in 1930's. He broke the social custom and the Confucian morality at those days. It is not becoming a synchronization about the place and the specific event but this is a pathos about man and woman's "consciousness" and "time" who are extremely selfish and subjective. Lee-Sang, who is a genius and is dissociable intellectual. Kum-Hong, is uncommon Ki-Sang (a singing and dancing girl) unlike others. They are repeating a meeting and separation that is not persuasive and necessity. It is not different from us today who are dreaming fantasy love from the escaping of the life. When the "Bong-Byul-Ki" is drawing out from the novel, and be watched by ballet, this text itself will be a melody, rhythm and source energy that the person who express it with body will make the character to move or to not move. This work express the symbolical motion with ballet about the  Lee-Sang and Kum-Hong's closing inside-consciousness. I hope this work will make the audience's eyes and ears enjoyable and can communicate with this performance.

¡Ü Choreography : KIM Sun- a

¡Ü Dancer : KIM Sun- a, SEO Jun-hyung

¡Ü Music : Salta Cello / Voice : LEE Sung-jun, HWANG Jung-ra

¡Ü Music Director : KIM Young-jae

¡Ü Show case duration : 15min

ARTIST (2) : PARK Soon-ho

PROFILE

PARK Sun-ho graduated from Hansung University and the same¡¯s Graduate School and completed a choreographer course of EDDC, Netherlands. He took on active part in engaging in Zappara Company, Sicily in Italy and participates in T.A.T. Project and he was selected as ¡®Young Choreographer¡¯ at PACT Zollverein Atelier, Germany as well as to participate in tour of <The Anatomy of Extreme> with Arepo Group and collaborative performance <Crazy Kiss> of Tanzhaus from2003. He invited with his choreography <Point> to Theater Winterthur and return to Korea in 2004. From his return he creates and participates in SIDance, Modafe and various event. Also he performed at <Caused by Economy, which choreographed by Yamazaki KOTA> which is Korea-Japan Co-production as a dancer for ¡®Korea-Japan Friendship in Dance 2005.¡¯

 ¡°Young Korean artist is in meditation and dancing in wide and flicker movement. Eastern dance art, PARK Soon-ho transmit the astonishing stimulation. He shows us that how the far-eastern dance can be sensitive, expressive and significantly featured.¡±

<Mark Ben, Netherlands>

¡°Thrilling dancer PARK Soon-ho touches us with fascinating Korean tradition.¡±

< Rheinische Post, 2002³â, Gesa Polert >

¡Ü TITLE : Life Force

Life... my reaction possesses a sense of infinity and mystery.

When the concentration of blood serum in norepinephrine goes up, it leads to an increase of resistance in the  peripheral blood vessels and thereby leading to its wide spread at an incredible speed. How long would it be?

How can its center be found? and what about its speed?

¡Ü Choreography : PARK Sun-ho

¡Ü Dancer : PARK Sun-ho, SON Hye-jung

¡Ü Show case duration : 15 min

ARTIST (3) : LEE Kyung-eun

PROFILE

LEE Kyung-eun performed as a member of Milmul Modern Dance Company and founded <Lee.K Dance> in 2002. In 1996, she received the best new dancer award of the year with her first work, <A Disturbing Heart>. She also received the Golden Award from Korea Modern Dance Association Concours. It is not an exaggeration to call <With Momo>, a work she staged during her 6 months study in New York in 2000, her most renown work and it received the Golden Award at the 4th Korean Choreographers' Festival in 2001 and earn favorable criticisms at Bagnolet Seoul Choreography Competition, which lead her to participate in choreography workshop of Montpellier Dance Festival in France that year. Since then, she is actively creating her own works with Seoul as her base. She was named as 'the most promising next generation choreographer' by Dong-A Ilbo, an influential daily newspaper in Korea. Also, her choreography <Off Destiny> was staged at the 8th International Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival held in Stuttgart, Germany in 2004 and the work received the <1st Choreography Prize>. Her work was staged at Dance Biennalle Tokyo, Osaka Dance at the gathering, Modafe in seoul, SIDance and International Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival in Germany and 2005, it staged at Kaay Fecc Festival in Senegal as a first of Asian. To name a few of the characteristics of her dance are the uncolored purity, the unpredictable provocation, physical qualities that show brimming energy and now she is searching for a unique turning point to a new point of view.

"Density, authenticity, consistency, clarity" won the jury's unanamous appreciation: first prize for the choreography. Absolutely! <Donald Hutera, DANCE EUROPE May 2004>

¡Ü TITLE : Off Destiny

A woman, A Korean, Kyung-eun Lee ...

Isn¡¯t it possible to escape from these things from time to time?

I want to live a free life, off destiny that binds me.

¡Ü Choreography, performance, Lighting design, text : LEE Kyung-eun

¡Ü Music : J. S. Bach

¡Ü Costume : MIN Chun-hong

¡Ü Duration : 11 min

ARTIST (4) : LEE Yong-In

PROFILE

LEE Yong-In had been working in Korea as a freelancer with several choreographers after she graduated from Department of Dance, Ewha University in Seoul.  In 1999 she moved to Europe, employed Landes Theater Linz Ballet in Austria worked with Robert Poole, Jacopo Godani and Rui Horta.  In 2001 she worked with Sinopia Dance Ensemble and Ventura Dance Company in Switzerland. Following year she employed with Saarlandisches Staatstheater Ballet in Germany and worked with Marguerite Donlon and Martino Mueller. She Choreographed "Mirror in Mirror", performed in Saarbruecken and invited to SIDance festival in Seoul. She won first prize in 8^th International Solo Tanz Festival in Stuttgart with her own choreoraphy  "Below the Surface" and invited to "Festival de la Cite" in Laussane, Switzerland. Now she is based in Seoul working with her own project group.

¡°Fellow Korean Dancer Yong-In LEE convinced the Panel of judges with her mastery of her body, her presence, diversity, and intensity. She walked away as the competition¡¯s first prize dancer in her own choreography, Below the Surface. I agree with them, but what I remember most is her aestheticism and the amazing suppleness-though the theatre is small, you actually couldn¡¯t hear her move. To me, in a sense, she¡¯s really the antithesis of her precursor.¡±

< Dance Europe, May, 2004 >

¡Ü TITLE : White Light

There are things which exist but unseen.

White light illuminates them and gives them new lives.

White Light contains all the colors.

It contains purity and complexity.

¡Ü Choreography : LEE Yong-In                                   

¡Ü Music :Arvo Paert "Fratres"

¡Ü Dancer : LEE Yong-In

¡Ü Duration : 11 min.

ARTIST (5): JUNG Young-doo

PROFILE

JUNG Young-doo completed his training at the prestigious Korean National University of Arts and founded The Doo Dance Theater in 2003. As an artistic director and choreographer, he is one of the most recognized young choreographers in Korea. Jung Young-doo¡®s works are focused on human mentality. His unique movements express psychological status of human beings. Each and every work shows different types of creative choreography.

He has invited to Contemporary Korean Dances by Young Artists at the 6th Seoul International Dance Festival with <Incompatible Yet One> and received high reputation. In 2004 SIDance choose him as representative young artist and advance to Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Seoul with the Asian artists of LADEN(Little Asia Dance Exchange Dance Network). In 2004, he was awarded Grand Prize for the category of solo and duet as well as Special Prize presented by French Embassy in Japan at Yokohama Dance Collection with his choreography.

¡°He is worth nothing on his talent.¡±

<Dance Magazine ¡®Momm¡¯ April, 2005, by Seiji Takaya (Rencontres Choregraphiques International de Seine Seint-Denis Membre du Conseile Artistique.)>

¡°JUNG Young-doo, a unique intensive present from his inside when dancing which interpreted from the esteem of figurativeness. It is developed into slow movement and changed the perception of experienced dance perfectly.¡± ¡°Un jeune home généreux et plein de talent.¡±  <susan buirge, france>

¡Ü TITLE : Repertoire No. #1 Solo 1

Wind soaks through the between¡¦

This work is the feeling of soaking the wind into everything interpreted to dance. Between the hair¡¦. Between Leaves¡¦. Between crevices of rock¡¦, Between slopes¡¦, Between us, you and me.

¡Ü Choreography : JUNG Young-doo

¡Ü Dancer : JUNG Young-doo

¡Ü Duration : 13 min.  

ARTIST (6): CHOI Kyung-sil

PROFILE

CHOI Kyung-sil graduated Kyunghee Univ, and graduate school and at the course of diploma. Currently engaged in Seoul contemporary dance company and has a wide sphere of action in Korea and abroad as a dancer and choreographer.

At the 7th Rencontre Choreographique International Bagnolet in Seoul she choreographed and perform <Subterranean people> and presented <My Smile> at Korean Choreographer¡¯s Concours. Also her choreography <Carma> performed in Düseldorf as well as she presented <Who are You> at ¡®Korea-Japan Staff Acconter¡¯ which held in Morishita Studio, Tokyo Japan in 2003. Winterthuer theatre in Switzerland invited her with <I am That> in 2004. Further she join the Butoh co-production for Korea-Japan Friendship in Dance 2005 as a dancer for <Caused by Economy> which choreographed by Yamazaki KOTA.

¡Ü TITLE : Out of thinking

Mysterious puzzle, higher leap over to the world beyond comprehension.

Flavoring humor, peculiar movement, unexpressive heart beat, and the jest with the world....

What these things can say, let¡¯s imagine and journey to the truth that the inner freedom out of the contemplation.

¡Ü Choreography : CHOI Kyung-sil

¡Ü Dancer : CHOI Kyung-sil, KIM Sun-hee

¡Ü Duration : 15 min.

Contacts

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