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Kris Verdonck
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Duet Reservation Required
Performance
8 – 11 Oct, 2:30pm / 6:30pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Kris Verdonck’s work is located on the border between theatre and art, between installation and performance, between dance and architecture.Duet, two dancers are suspended in the air by a crane which spins them slowly. The spinning of the machine and the force of gravity constantly change the movement of the two dancers who cling tightly to each other.
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Byungjun Kwon
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Hypermetropia
Reservation Required
Performance
18 Oct, 7pm
19 Oct, 5pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Byungjun Kwon began his musical career as a singer-song writer in the early 90s. He has released 7 albums to date ranging from alternative rock to minimal house, has contributed to movie soundtracks, fashion shows, modern dance performances. His work, Hypermetropia is an audio-visual performance piece involving a camera and a projection translating sound to color and light. Hypermetropia defines the uncertain space that the artist sees when shifting focus from eye to eye as he looks at a pen. In this way, the movement of the pen oscillates space and meaning causing one to enter into ‘Hypermetropia’. [Hypermetropia, also known as Hyperopia or colloquially as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or when the lens is not round enough), causing inability to focus on nearby objects. — Wikipedia]
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Hyoungmin Kim
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Play. She Left and It was a Vacant Lot Reservation Required
Performance
22 – 24 Oct, 3pm / 6pm , 25 – 26 Oct, 3pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Hyoungmin Kim is a young dancer, who works at Dorkypark, a company established by Constanza Macras, a collaborative choreographer at the Schaubühne Theater in Germany. Kim herself is also an active choreographer whose stage is mostly in Europe. For this festival, she presents Play. She Left and It was a Vacant Lot, a solo piece and short reconstruction of her previous work. In this performance, she expresses images of communication and destruction using a four-meterlong pole. The piece is also her interpretation of the architectural structure of Berlin where she lives.
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Claudia Triozzi
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Fais une halte chez antonella
Reservation Required
Performance
25 – 26 Oct, 6pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Claudia Triozzi presents a very unique work that combines dance and drama with a complex machine she made from various objects and materials. On the surface, it looks like a series of grotesque images, but it is actually a political history and a social chronology of the body. Fais une halte chez Antonella, a collaboration with musician Haco is an improvisational performance using lyrics from popular songs and scraps of various texts in a concert form.
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Vincent Dupont
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Haut Cris (miniature)
Performance
1 Nov, 6pm
2 Nov, 3pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Vincent Dupont’s work covers various genres including film, theatre and performance. The importance of texts and sounds in his work, and the visual images he creates on stage make his position in the field of contemporary performance art unique. Haut Cris (miniature) began from the texts of Agrippa d’Aubigné in the 16th Century that addressed the fears of religious war prevalent at the time. The artist says that the body in modern society has been repressed and has thus forgotten how to rage. With sound and subtle movements, the artist moans in a narrow space. The sound and soft sighs emanating with his slow movements gradually expand and explode into cries and screams.
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Antonia Baehr
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Laugh Reservation Required
Workshop : 8 Nov, 3pm
Performance : 9 Nov, 3pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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The characteristic of Antonia Baehr’s work is that she transforms the pre-existing structure as she shifts her role from director, to writer, to actor. In 2006 Baehr completed a project titled Laughter Workshop in Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, France. Twenty five local people were invited to participate in a three day workshop to learn about how to laugh well from three laughter experts (ayoga teacher, a clown, and an artist). The result of this workshop and her research are dramatized in Laugh. It explores what laughing is, covering various aspects of laughter: jokes, expressions, humor, joy, sound, forms and so forth.
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Dora Garcia/Hansol Yoon
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M*A*S*H Reservation Required
(A Korean-Brechtian Version)
Performance
15, 22, 29 Nov, 6pm
16, 23, 30 Nov, 3pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Dora Garcia is interested in creating a situation in which the traditional relationship between an artist, the work and the audience is transformed. Her writing, her video work and her performance alters pre-existing codes as she examines the relationship people establish in public spaces, and interrupts the very system that constructs these spaces. Her new theatre production, M*A*S*H (A Korean-Brechtian Version) is a re-construction of the film M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman and originally a black comedy set in the Korean War. Taking the main characters from the original film, she created a new script, which was then staged with Korean actors under the direction of Hansol Yoon.
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Toshiki Okada
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5 Days in March Reservation Required
Performance
13 Dec, 6pm
14 Dec, 3pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Toshiki Okada, playwright and director, established the theatre company Chelfitsch, a child-like pronunciation of the English word, Selfish. This name reveals social and cultural characteristics of present day Japan. Okada is known for his theatrical usage of slang and repetitive meaningless gestures. 5 Days in March, portraying the lives of young couples in Tokyo during the five days before and after the US attack on Iraq in March 2003, questions the mechanics of theatrical dialogue using fragmented language and exaggerated gestures. Without an apparent plot or any specific incident, 5 Days in March shows the contemporary expressions of the young generation today.
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Hwayeon Nam 33 & Younggyu Jang
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Reservation Required
20 Dec, 6pm
21 Dec, 3pm
NJP Art Center 2F Theater
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Hwayeon Nam writes polyphonic texts – several speakers read their own lines in different tones and speeds. They seem to be in conversation with each other about a specific incident but the audience can’t make out what is being said because it is out of sequence, mixed with layers of juxtaposed words, tones, noise and music, and is only understood as fragments of language. For this project, Nam writes the text then musician Younggyu Jang translates and fabricates it into musical notes.
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(Produced by Forma, www.forma.org.uk)
