Company Introduction

Founded by choreographer and dancer Ahn Eun-me in February 1988, Eun-me Ahn Company is actively engaged in activities with the U.S. and Europe receiving global attention. The New York Times praised Ahn’s work as Japan’s Bhutto, and British critics praised Ahn for calling her " Asia’s Pina Bausch. " Ahn Eun-me’s dance featuring sensitive and special language, mysterious colors and dynamic energy and humor expressed through the body without unnecessary rotation borders on Korean tradition.

Performance Detail

"In October 2010, with no planned itinerary, Eun-Me Ahn started a nationwide tour along the roads, scenery and people. Together with four dancers and three cameras, they asked grandmothers they met to dance for them as they toured in the Cungcheong, Jeolla, Gyeongsang and Gangwan provinces and recorded their dance movements. Most of the grandmothers were average Korean farmers in their 60′s, but some were even in their 90′s.

From these meetings, filmed images in the provinces and reactions of the dancers came out Dancing Grandmothers a successively tender and hallucinating show for 10 dancers and a dozen amateurs, that combines the energies of all to finally take the audience in the vortex of its energy. A tribute to the ancient times as much as the unalterable vitality of movement. As written by Eun-Me Ahn : ”For me, movement doesn’t only happen in a certain place at a certain time. It rather represents a kind of fossil destined to be operated at one time to create by its different gesture a whole universe of flexibility in which the moment stretches to infinity.”"

* Photo Copyright : Youngmo Choe

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