Details

Talking about the confusion, loss and representation of identity that we go through between the dual perspectives of “seeing and being seen.”

About performance

We’ve gotten used to pretense and falsity, losing our individualities and colors long ago. Immersed in acting out the ‘fictional me,’ the task of finding my true self is put off again.

Right now, we don’t confront our bare faces, and our assumptions about future are replacing the present tense. People all have weaknesses, but one’s own thoughts and individuality make it possible to compensate them. Thus, it’s all the more urgent to face who we are. How am ‘I’ seen and how do I see? The piece throws a fundamental question about one’s essential identity.

Choreographer Dong-kyu Kim and LDP(Laboratory Dance Project), Korea’s top-notch contemporary dance company, give a fascinating take on the specificity and ambiguity of dance language, speaking to the public while maintaining artistic quality. Dong-kyu Kim’s Look Look V2 is intended to be developed into a repertory through SPAF, aiming to expand the audience range and promote performing arts in general.

Synopsis

There are two men on a small boat. One man says that he has already left with the wind and is not here anymore. The boat sets sail, and the two men start to engage in a conversation about death. As the waves get rougher and fog thicker, one man jumps into the sea. Two men, standing on the boat. The dead man says: “I’ve left,” “I am the wind.” When asked why he has left, he answers it was because he was too heavy.

Credit

Stage Design / Tae-yang Lee

Sound Design / Hyoung-min Kim

Objet Design / Se-hyun Bae, Ho-joon Hwang

Costume / In-sook Choi

Photo / Baki

Administration / Jisoo Gook

Cast / Jin-wook Ryu, Jong-won Chun, Hyuk Kang, Seung-hyun Kim, Na-ra Yoon, Jong-kyung Lim, Ji-ho Jang, Set-byeol Lim, Ji-yeon Yang, Rog-yee Jung, Soo-in Kim, Hong Lee

Company

Laboratory Dance Project

Unbounded audacity and explosive energy, the legendary fandom in Korean contemporary dance scene

Founded in 2001, LDP is an International Dance Project whose ultimate goal is to bring dance in Korea into the global network. Since its foundation, they have taken on distinctly experimental challenges and created a unique style, leading the creation of repertory works and raising the value of arts. Also, LDP’s annual performances have sold out each year, and the dancers who have remarkable talent, personality, hard work and persistence have earned the audience’s strong trust. LDP stands as the only company who is supported by the audience’s absolute trust that their works would never disappoint.