KNCDC’s new work Yojaya Yojaya choreographed by contemporary dancer Eun-Me Ahn, who presents the best performance with spectacular choreography and direction alongside her anthropological exploration.

Choreographer Eun-Me Ahn has portrayed the history of the bodies of the generations of our grandmothers and mothers since 2010 starting from the piece Dance to My Ancestors with her unique colors and sense of humor. The bodies embracing a range of generations, including men, adolescents, those with disability and Asian millennials and children, have formed a huge river, expanding their history. The choreographer, who has delved into an era and its people, now turns her gaze on "new women" that lived in the modern and contemporary age in Korea.
 

Korean modern and contemporary era seen with the word “woman”

During the port opening period, we had to go through a painful time of Japanese occupation. And there were women who were deprived of their country. They did not have their own name, got married at an early age due to the custom of early marriage, or became a widow with children in their late teens at times. Ahn intends to invite us to listen to the voices of the women of the time who lived and faded away into history.

They may seem to have adorned an era splendidly under the name of a new woman or a modern girl, but they lived fiercely more than anyone else in reality. Some of the new women shouted, “Allow us to have a dance hall in Seoul.” Some were deceived by love or cried for money. Some romanticists said love is infinite, and some others lived up to their names even though they had no name.

Yojaya Yojaya reflects various aspects of the lives of the new women who struggled to lead their own lives ahead of us while being frustrated by the walls of the times. Multiple audiovisual elements, such as bobbed hairstyle, accessories and costumes in harmony with diverse dance movements, as well as buzzwords or neologisms of those days keeping pace with the social and cultural changes, bring the stage to life. This production will showcase a spectrum of dances like an epic drama, illuminating how the fragments that they left behind have been passed down to this day.