DOUBLE BILL: Mechanism & Everything Falls Dramatic

Mechanism by Jaeyoung Lee 

Choreographer Jaeyoung Lee (artistic director of SIGA), who has actively expanded his artistic horizons through a cross-genre collaboration based on his directing ability to create a solid structure of a work, presents a new work titled Mechanism. Lee sees through the essence through a phenomenon, bringing it onto the stage as well as into his own world of art. Mechanism focuses on humans placed inside small and large systems, such as Space-Earth-Civilization-Society, and illuminates a ‘movement of resistance’ taking place, although they live in accordance with the systems.

Everything in this world belongs to a system. 
Space, earth, civilization, society and humans exist in all kinds of systems. 
A body exists within a structure, and a body in itself is a structure. 
Its mechanism is generated and revealed by dynamics and chemical reactions.
Even a movement of resistance to such systems is a very reasonable and natural situation.
While structures and systems exist, movements to escape from them generate energy, thereby creating a mechanism.

Choreographer Jaeyoung Lee

Jaeyoung Lee founded the dance company SIGA with the aim of talking about life and people and sharing sympathy ‘little by little’ through dance. Jaeyoung Lee, who is dedicated to broadening his scope of dance gradually, has tried new challenges and adventures in every performance by collaborating with artists from different fields such as theater directors, musicians, actors/actresses, mime artists and installation artists.

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Everything Falls Dramatic by Sungim Her 

Choreographer Sungim Her has been noted for illuminating the stories of those on the margins and raising questions about stereotypes in a bold manner. In this work, the choreographer dramatically and calmly portrays “things that disappear and fall” that we encounter in life.  

Tranquility and anxiety, certainty and uncertainty, as well as appearance and disappearance. Our different senses let us know and feel “disappearance”, which is invisible and untouchable. Amid unpredictable uncertainties, we see each other disappearing and experience separations, expected but not prepared. Sometimes, we come to part unexpectedly without preparation. In our transient lives, “to disappear” is the beginning of a new life to come, as well as the natural consequence of life. Disappearance may probably be discussed only in the context of the present. This piece portrays things that we encounter and that we see disappear and fall in a both dramatic and calm way. Disappearance is not only an unfamiliar and unwelcome moment that constantly shakes us, but is an unavoidable and inevitable destiny. We want to feel distant from it while being very close to it. However, our life becomes more valuable by disappearing.

Choreographer Sungim Her 

Sungim Her has portrayed and illuminated the stories of those who are excluded or marginalized in society. After studying choreography at P.A.R.T.S.(School for Contemporary Dance) in Belgium, she has been working both in Korea and in Europe, collaborating and performing with Jan Fabre, Les Ballets C de la B, Cie Alias, Abattoir Fermé and Needcompany. Working with Needcompany, a Belgian dance company, for more than 11 years since 2009, Her has created and presented more than 13 pieces including 25 moves and All Tomorrow’s Parties. She has also worked on projects across genres: she choreographed and performed in the piece Trois Contes by Opéra de Lille, and also performed in Hotel Poseidon, a Belgian indie film. Since 2012, Sungim Her has actively created her own productions in Europe: Philia, Tuning, Nymf, Nutcrusher, W.A.Y and Everything Falls Dramatic. Sungim Her attempts to communicate with a wide range of audiences both in Korea and in Europe through her multi-genre collaborations and performances on the global stage. 

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