Details

The dance aesthetics of human life unfolding ‘Without Realizing’

Spontaneous movements coming out of instinctive actions and emotions

About performance

Without Realizing is an overview of how Young-hee Kim’s faith in dance is established in her early life. Her life as a dance artist and her growth into the leader of a company are portrayed in the piece in a natural way. Also, going beyond describing herself in terms of life and death, she takes, as main themes, the naturally flowing elements such as water, fire and wind.

As an inaugural performance and stepping stone of KIM YOUNGHEE MUTDANCE, this piece means more to Young-hee Kim herself than any other projects, who attempted a confirmation of herself and in-depth approach to internal self through primitive images. Expressing something each of us feels and experiences today into contemporary yet strongly Korean images, the piece will certainly captivate the audience, more than any other contemporary dance piece, with its Korean and primitive movements and strong emotional expression with internal flow.

Choreographer’s notes

A piece that shows a new birth of ‘Young-hee Kim’

All creatures including mean experience life and death; new encounters and goodbyes; and choices and giving up. Probably not by human will but under a grand force,

without us realizing…

these things happen…

This question led me to create Without Realizing.

The universe is alive, and feeling it means that there is life, which consists of water, fire and wine. They are subjects to build the big theme of the piece with, but also propose the basic forms of the movements.

Water stands for body, the physicality.

Fire, on the other hand, represents the mind.

Wind signifies breathing.

For every life to be born, the seed can be created by anything and develops into full existence through water, fire and wind.

Credit

Music / Chang-soo Park

Stage Art / Jong-seok Kim

Costume / Min-ju Kang

CAST / Sook-kyoung Shin, Hee-jin Kim, Hye-rim Cho, Yoo-ree Kim, Eun-ji Cho, Eun-hyung Son, Ji-won Kim, Min-jung Yoo, So-young Choi, Soo-hyun Yoo, Kyung-min Seo, So-mee Lee, Da-som Huh, Gyu-ri Park, Da-hye Lee, Ji-young Woo, Ha-rim Kim, Ji-hyun Lee, Hye-jung Cho

Company

KIM YOUNGHEE MUTDANCE

Founded in 1994, KIM YOUNGHEE MUTDANCE takes the legacy of Korean dance and aims to establish a new dance tradition of the contemporary era. MUT means land or earth in Korean, and courage(spirit, will, grit) in German. This tells a lot about the company’s goal to propose a new creative dance based in tradition. Also, she applies the unique breathing technique of Korean dance to her creative vocabulary so that she can equip her language with solid strength to balance out the pressure of tradition. The company’s work is maintaining a broad meaning of dance aesthetics, which includes rituals or such atmosphere as well as an attitude of solemnity towards life, and trying to establish the spectacularization of dance in theatres as the ‘aesthetics and style of dance of MUTDANCE.’