About performance
Here we are.
We pay attention to the society’s gaze towards the weak,
and the gaze of the relative minority towards society.
An individual has agency, and these individuals constitute society.
The society is us.

Synopsis
A society of numbness flowing with heaviness.
The endless weight of living inside something so infinitely light.
After all, we are also you.

Pool begins with the question: What is my part in society? There is a Korean saying that goes, “Stagnant water is bound to rot.” It tells us how people can fall behind and, just as water does, begin to stagnate, unless we continue to grow and change. Society molds us even when we are not trying to mold ourselves in a particular way. Here, we ask: Are we not all socially dead, despite being biologically alive, if the way we are molded is dictated by society? Can someone who has fallen behind and stagnated continue to exist in the ever flowing river of society with any personal agency?

About company
Founded in 2017, Kim Sung Hoon Dance Project is actively performing both in and outside of Korea. They are acclaimed for portraying humanist themes in a way that is not heavy or ambiguous and for creating realistic, direct and frank choreographies, which deliver the themes to a wider public in a more accessible way.

Credits
Choreographer/ Sung-hoon Kim
Cast: Hyo-sub Bae, Jong-kyung Im, Hwan-sung Jeon, Log-yee Jung, Ho-young Shin, Ji-yoon Lee, Seung-uk Song, Seung-min Choi
Light Design/ Ho Shin
Costume Design/ Dae-hwan Kim
Producer/ Ji-soo Gook
Composer·Arrangement/ Hyung-min Kim
Photo/ BAKi
Music: Diagonal Records [DIAG025] ’Not Waving - 24’, Ezio Bosso & The London Cellos Ensemble ’Six Breaths : Before Five’, Interpol ’Untitled’, Jackie Wilson ’Reet Petite’, Jon Brion ’A Little Library Music-Going to a show magnolia OST’, Beats Antique ’The Grand Bizarre’ End Homeless in Ireland - Parliament Gates a poem by Alan Cooke

*Photo Credit: Baki