Company Introduction
Lyon Eun Kwon, is a choreographer and dancer based in Seoul, Korea. She earned her master’s at the Department of Choreography of Korea National University of Arts. She won the French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographers with at the 2014 Yokohama Dance Collection EX in Japan. In the same year, she participated in an Artist-In-Residence program organised by the Centre Chorégraphique National (Paris, Montpellier, Rillieux-la-pape and Rennes) and Institut Français. As a result of the residency program, was presented as a showcase format at Centre National de la Danse Paris. In 2015, the piece was invited to , Yokohama and Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF). Her latest piece won the Third Prize and the Audience Prize Special Mention at the Danse Élargie in Paris, 2016. In August 2017, it was invited to pick up stage programmed by Korea National Contemporary Dance Company and Festival

Performance Detail
"Korean men have always known the pride of protecting their country by serving in the military. Men who dance can fulfill their obligations and know GLORY by winning a dance competition. Two different battles for GLORY live in a single body.
Korean modern dance history has been recorded to have grown rapidly to the present day since the introduction of the USA choreographer, Martha Graham’s Technique in 1963. However, there is one record missing, which is about the exemption from compulsory military service and the contest of male dancers who are in contact with Korean modern history. All males, aged between 18 and 35 in South Korea, the only divided country in the world, must enlist in military service. Since 1983, only one winner of the Dong-A Dance Competition has been granted a military exemption. Based on this historical context, this work is on the theme of ’Body Records of Korean Contemporary Dance History: A Factor of Glory."

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