Lee Jaeyoung(Artistic Director of Company SIGA), who has actively expanded his artistic horizons through a cross-genre collaboration based on his directing ability to create a solid structure of a work, presents a new work titled Mechanism in HIP合(HIP HOP). Lee sees through the essence through a phenomenon, bringing it onto the stage as well as into his own world of art. This time his insight aims at ‘hip hop’ culture. Mechanism focuses on humans placed inside small and large systems, such as space, Earth, civilization and society, and illuminates a ‘movement of resistance’ taking place at times although they live in accordance with the systems.

Everything in this world belongs to a system. Space, Earth, civilization, society and humans exiting in there are all a kind of system.
A body exists within a structure. A body in itself is a structure.
Its mechanism is generated and revealed by dynamics and chemical reactions.

Ji Kyungmin(Choreographer of Goblin Party) is a choreographer attracting global attention. He has drawn wide attention both at home and abroad, including UK, Italy and the Czech Republic, for his choreography characterized by a mixture of traditional subjects and contemporary imagination. In HIP合(HIP HOP), Ji stages his new work, Waves, with dancers selected from an audition. This piece embodies the experimental spirit of the choreographer, who attempts to discover the motion of up and down, which is the most basic property of the movement of hip hop dance, deriving naturalness from it. Waves will bring an irreplaceable ‘hip’ energy completed by being natural to the audience.

We imitate these waves. Our movement of rolling and flowing becomes an imitation. We move from head to toe in an orderly manner.
Imagining that the wind blows towards us throughout our whole body, we move slowly as if taking steps one by one. Our flowing and rolling – now these are pretty much like the waves.

Choreographer Jeong Cheolin(Director of Melancholy Dance Company), who deals with subjects with his outstanding use of objects and powerful movement, delves into ‘deconstruction, autonomy and destruction of boundaries’ in particular among the properties of hip hop culture. In his new piece, Unprotected, Jeong intends to explore what kind of boundaries the human attempts to deconstruct the contemporary rules can break down and how to discover new aspects of unique behaviors and rebellious thoughts. The choreographer translates dangerous but unpredictable circumstances into movement on stage, inspired by some events, accidents and happenings occurring on the roads among different rules.

On the other side of the circumstances created by autonomy and the rules for safety, there are dangers of aggression and violence like road rage.
Unprotected not only experiments with moments of choice for which no one takes responsibility, but also portrays our roads where dynamic pleasure and danger coexist.