Intro

A new combination of sports and dance

Synopsis

Aggression, a primordial instinct, stays inside us and continuously needs an exit. Sports have been developed to release our violent urges. This piece embodies the symbolic meaning of sports by utilizing harmonious images of rhythm, movements and space.

Review

"The Dance Company of Korea Bereishit in Zavala Muniz showed a dual program, JUDO. There is deep and conscious labor movement research and the relationship of dance with the Eastern tradition in martial arts, with its management decanted work on each other’s bodies. Bejart in the sixties had started with that line, which then expanded and brought enormous findings as contact improvisation."

Creator / artist

Founded in 2000 by choreographer PARK, Soonho, Bereishit is a Seoul-based dance company that approaches Korean traditional culture from a contemporary standpoint, maintaining fundamental values as opposed to simply borrowing from or transforming them. Their work also explores issues of identity and transformation, and delves into multimedia, street dance, community dance work, and real time interactive demonstrations. They display an amazing sensitivity towards space and rhythms, and performances are always delivered with kinesthetic clarity and power. Bereishit is the one of most popular Korean dance companies in major international dance festivals and venues, such as Jacob’s Pillow Festival, the International Tanzmesse rw in Germany, the Festival International Cevantino in Mexico, and many events in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Uruguay, and India.