Standing in between
Key words: Body Politics, Liminality, Female Artists, Cultural stereotypes, K-pop, 1988 Olympics, Modern dance, performance, diaspora, female artists, cultural colonialism, identity
Union Theatre, Itch That Scratch, Feb. 2025
Kingston Museum, Mar.2025
synopsis
This is KASSNA KOLLETIV's investigation of East Asian artists' identity in the contemporary British landscape. Crossing genres amongst ballet, modern dance, K-pop and Korean traditional dance, KASSNA shows the struggle of redefining ourselves in the new context as migrant artists.
Directed by Namoo Chae Lee
Choreography by Suyoung Park
Dramaturg by Minhee Yeo
Performed by Suyoung Park and Minhee Yeo
Origin of Goot
-modernising traditions and rituals
Key words: ritual, diaspora, female artists, cultural colonialism, Goot, shaman, folk culture and modernity.
Development in Progress
BOLD Scratch, R&D - Origins of Goot, 2025
Kingston Museum - Upcoming Full Production in March, 2025
synopsis
In search of Korean ritual series, this show draws inspiration from Choi Seunghee, an international superstar in 1920 under Japanese colonisation, who navigated the complexities of being stuck in tradition and westernisation.
Delving into Korean shamanistic ritual Goot, we find the origins of our rituals.
Directed by Namoo Chae Lee
Choreography by Suyoung Park
Performed by Suyoung Park and Namoo Chae Lee
Ondal, a blue eyed Korean
based on Korean Folktale, the story of ONDAL, a fool.
Key Words: physical languages. lying and truth. racism and xenophobia. unification.
Script in Development
synopsis
Korea’s most famous fool, ONDAL, who turned into a general by the help of a beautiful wife! What if he was not a fool? What if he was a foreigner who stranded in ancient land of Korea in the era of confucianism?
We see how language bars us from seeing who that person is through exploring physical communication.