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"The most contemporary of all dance performances"
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"Dramatically reveals the personality of dancers through daily gestures and movements"
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Taking the body living in the world and newly writing/using it on stage
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company’s much anticipated piece returns as repertoire: Writing Using, choreographed by Ahn Aesoon
With its premiere in 2022, Writing Using received attention with the dancers’ unique and explosive movements, variations of stage devices, and excellent mise-en-scene on stage. It returns in 2023 as part of KNCDC’s repertoire, tracing the process of how the personal history, memory, imagery, and environment accumulated in the body individualize common movements. The bodily gesture collected in universal life construct movements with new textures as they go through the dancers’ bodies.
Choreographer Ahn Aesoon, who served as the artistic director of KNCDC from 2013 to 2016, has presented sensual works based on contemporary themes, such as Bulssang, Already Not Yet, and Zero One Dimension. Writing Using casts questions on how we view the body in an environment that changes the modus operandi of the body. How does the world created by recorded bodies relate and communicate with the real world? Ahn Aesoon re-edits bodies performing daily movements and bodies containing the traces of memories and emotions, calling to the stage the messages of the body that travels across time and space.
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Ahn Aesoon, a renowned Korean contemporary dancer and choreographer, has attempted to embody Korean identity and contemporaneity through her work. Based on Korean tradition and oriental view of aesthetics, she has been committed to creating and experimenting with contemporary dance in diverse ways. Ahn has also shown an outstanding ability to interpret and express dance from a contemporary perspective through observation and exploration of Korean beauty in her choreography. Furthermore, she has integrated an oriental playfulness into a specific concept of ‘play’ and has actively reflected it in her pieces on the basis of research on Korean movement while escaping from the existing Western technique and movement. Having developed into her own creative artistic view and methodology, such aspects became the foundation for shaping her unique world of dance. Ahn is recognized by critics as a choreographer, who succeeded in building her own distinct world of dance, for her unique style of choreography reflecting Korean sentiments, an excellent ability to organize space, an eye for selecting themes with sophisticated sense and insight, a concentration which fully draws individuality and functionality from dancers, as well as challenging and successful collaborations with various artists.
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Kang Jinan
Choi Minsun
Kang Hojung
Jung Jaewoo
Park Seonhwa
Park Yura
Kim Dohyun
Jeong Jongung
Lee Hyeonseok
Doh Yunseung
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