DaEun Jung’s Groovy Dancers Monday Night Class series concludes in DaEun’s solo performance–Byoul–and a group piece with MNC class participants!

Byoul is a solo performance culminating DaEun’s last five years of movement practice in LA that deals with her trained dance form, compositional methods in dance making, and spontaneous bodies. This work has been in inseparable collaboration with Melody Shim, a pansori singer and vocalist.

Byoul challenges conventional systems, formality of modern Korean dance, and pigeonholed identity of culturally-embedded art forms, questioning what it means to build handcrafted systems to artists in institutional society and how the body and intelligence respond to the rules and rigor of the system while flow and impulses are redefined.

This project has been supported by in-progress showings and residency/laboratory programs at Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, We Live in Space, Pieter, and Los Angeles Performance Practice in LA as well as Movement Research at the Judson Church in New York and Forward Dialogues at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography in Tallahassee.