Synopsis

New Monster surveys the world by placing figures from Korean mythology, namely, a man, a fairy and a monster, into a modern landscape. The performance attempts to turn the characters into three dancers with their own points of view, in order to examine how the body is re-contextualized by the roles and meanings given it by society, and how their bodies are rendered in the borders between collectivity and individuality, tradition and modernity, human being and animal, and man and woman. New Monster spans the spectrum from a contemporary aesthetic to myth-inspired theatricality, with its overarching poetry only becoming apparent at the end.

Review

“Jeeae Lim performs polysemous and abstract structured movement patterns without falling into uncertainty or clichés. As to the question of whether certain gestures or nuances of expression were taken from her studies at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz in Berlin or traditional Korean dance, it does not arise. They are magically conjured. Her vocabulary of subtle hand motions, elegant jumps and imposing postures always gets to the heart of the matter. Every step appears evident in regard to what happened and will happen…”
–Darrell Wilkins, Tanz (Germany), April 2014

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Creator / artist

Jeeae Lim, who has a background in traditional Korean dance, has been working on the relationship between the notions of the traditional and the contemporary in dance. She completed her M.A. in Choreography and Solo/Dance/Authorship at HZT/UdK in Berlin. Her works have been presented at the various festivals internationally(Korea, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Japan, Romania).

Her artistic practice is looking at the body as a moving archive, exploring her own response to the cultural tradition and the established dance history in relation to its accustomed conventions and stereotypes.

Promotion Information

TOUR SIZE
Performers : 3 persons
Staff : 2 persons

DURATION
40 min. (no intermission)

STAGE SIZE
Width : 10m, Depth : 9m, Height : 6m

Contact

Manager : Lim, Jee-Ae

Korea Arts Management Service Manager 02-708-2275
pams@gokams.or.kr