Established in 2005, Kim Yoon-Jin Dance Company has been modernizing Korean traditional dance by dissolving the original formats and experimenting with visual art, theater, performance art and music. The company has presented ““Desire”” and ““The Old Songbook”” at Korean Performing Arts Festival and The National Dance Company of Korea named ““Stay Still””the Best Dance Piece of the Year for its acute observation of the fatalistic modern society surrounded by media frenzy.Its latest piece ““Kisaeng Becomes You””, co-produced by Seoul International Dance (SIDance) and Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) in New York, was raved as an exemplary international collaborations garnering numerous enthusiastic reviews such as ““something terribly fragile and beautiful bloomed……The gamble paid off (Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times)”” and ““... a fascinating exercise in displacement (Deborah Jowitt, The Village! Voice)””and many others from New York and Hong Kong where the work was presented.
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