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Unfortunately, it contains no music.” - Maurice Ravel
Three choreographers, Kim Yong-geol, Kim Seoljin, and Kim Bo-ram, are each presenting a unique piece with different musical scales and arrangements of Ravel’s ‘Bolero’, which has ceaselessly imbued imagination and inspiration to choreographers. Korea National Contemporary Dance Company’s first new creation of 2017,
KNCDC’s first new creation of 2017 is composed of works by three choreographers who are currently receiving the most attention in the dance scene. Kim Yong-geol is a ballet star who has revived the popularity for Korean ballet, and has shown remarkable achievement moving from National Ballet to Paris Opera Ballet, dancing as a solist and the first Korean dancer ever to enter the world-class company. Kim Seoljin is a dancer with the biggest fandom after winning in

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Kim Yong-geol’s
Kim Seoljin’s
In choreographer’s note, Kim Seoljin says, “Music is no longer numbers to me. I’m no longer interested in analyzing the form and time. I’m curious of the textures that love, the character, or the situation has, and I’m more interested in how I can develop them onto the stage. I didn’t want to force any social idea or philosophical message into it, either.” He casts a question to the audience, “Wouldn’t deconstructing and tearing down Bolero be really making Bolero?”
Jeong Jong-im and Choi Hye-won of LIVETOTHE;, who are in charge of music, are preparing the music by collecting sounds from everyday life and expanding them into the rhythm of Bolero, in order to rebuild Bolero from its deconstruction. Dancers from the company ‘Mover’, where Kim Seoljin is the director, bring up the quality of the stage.
Kim Bo-ram’s
Choreographer Kim Bo-ram approaches the human “origin of expressions” through this piece. For this, he rules out any typical interpretation of the music, decomposing and reassembling the melodies and rhythms unique to ‘Bolero’. Through the ‘Bolero’ transformed by Park Yong-bin, participating in the rearrangement of the music, dancers focus their bodies to the music and bring out their interior movements to complete
Kim, Yonggeol Photo by CHOI Youngmo