A Festival of Korean Dance 2023: Choi X Kang & Art Project BORA

A COMPLEMENTARY SET_DISAPPEARING WITH AN IMPACT BY CHOI X KANG PROJECT

• The last installment in Choi x Kang Project's trilogy and following Complement presented as part of A Festival of Korean Dance in 2019, A Complementary Set_Disappearing with an Impact combines live performance with footage recorded on stage to create an optical illusion in the space between what is seen and unseen. Perceptions of past and present are distorted, sound turns into noise and the performers original movements are transformed in witty and unexpected ways.
  
  A Complementary Set_Disappearing with an Impact is a captivating, and often funny, game, which plays with what’s seen and what’s not seen, past and present, and call into question what has disappeared and what exists.

About CHOI X KANG PROJECT

Choi X Kang Project is a project group based in Seoul, South Korea founded by two members: Min-Sun Choi and Jin-an Kang in 2015. The group is looking for an intuitive way to create motions and focus on the process of connecting external devices to the body through diverse experiments. After working as dancers at the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company from 2010 to 2016, Choi and Kang started working as a group and were acknowledged for their possibilities of receiving awards and being selected for projects supporting young promising choreographers further solidifying their style and direction. choixkangproject.creatorlink.net

BYEOL YANG BY ART PROJECT BORA

• A striking and minimalist duet, showcasing how Korean artists are using dance to make sense of how the pandemic has impacted our bodies in ways we might not realise. Two organisms, not quite at home in their bodies, try to make sense of the world around them. Seemingly identical, they explore how their environment impacts changes in their bodies in distinct and separate ways.
  
  In strange and unavoidable times, Byeol Yang offers a starting point for understanding the world around us and its impact on ourselves and our bodies.

About Art Project BORA

Founded in contemporary dance, Art Project BORA is a unique company that has broken the concepts of genre and space out of conventional logic and definition, creating a feast of images and senses. Art Project BORA is a creative team based on contemporary dance, dismantling the concepts of genre and space with the body and discovering original images and senses of variations by exploring body archetypes.

Their continuous evolution helped them build up a repertoire of styles and colors that remain unique to themselves.
Art Project BORA embraces different fields such as visual arts, films, performance art, and music. It’s a group that leads in the field of experimental work through the exchange of different genres.

Going beyond the limits of confined theatre spaces, Art Project BORA attempts to find varieties of methods to connect with the audience by breaking the barrier of genres and space concepts. borarts.com