One Seventy-Fifth Second documents every moment we make effort to maintain balance in life. 1/75 of a second is a unit of time defined as the shortest possible moment ‘ksana’ in Buddhist term. At the moment of losing oneself, does the balance indeed disappear? Doesn’t ON Balance continuously exist in between the states of OFF Balance? The performance suggests that the moment between ON Balance and OFF Balance is a process of life and raises the question that ON balance and OFF balance could mean totally the opposite. In the world where materials last longer and machines are more advanced and intelligent than humans, the movements of the dancers will show you the substantiality of a split moment we failed to perceive.

Choreographer’s Note

This work is an extended version of , a solo performance by the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company. It portrays the individuals of 1990’s as ‘nervous and risky, but still growing’.

Afterward my question extended to the constant organic circulation of creation and extinction inherent in an organism and I explored the language of the body, on and off balance, with international choreographers at a residency program in Portugal.

Based on this project, I presented a solo performance in the Who’s Next section at the Seoul International Dance Festival in 2015, and then developed it into a trio performance .

If the solo work was an individual experiment about on and off balance, the trio performance was an extended version where the notion of on or off balance was connected to the relationships between cell and cell, individual and individual, individual and society, and individual and the universe.

Company

Dance Project PPopKKi

In 2012, the independent dancer Yun-jung Lee and the stage director In-woo Nam founded the company. Based on contemporary dance, it engages in the collaboration among different genres, the creative program in searching for new styles on the boundaries of two genres, the art and culture educational programs, and community outreach activities. Every year in November since 2012, they have staged November x Yun-jung Lee Dance Relay. By exploring how the body occupies the space, how the body breathe with the space, and how to understand others through the body, the company searches for a spatial and philosophical expansion of the body.  

Credits

Choreography    Yun-jung Lee

Composer         Jung-hoon Pi

Sound            Hee-suk Seo

Lighting Designer  Yoo-jin Lee

Dramaturg        In-woo Nam

Stage Designer     Soo-min Ha

Costume Designer  Sohhee Han

Cast                      Young-sun Kong, Hye-ryun Yong, Ji-yeh Jeon