Byoul Part 1: 246 at 40

What would happen if the conventional flow of Korean dance is disrupted?

Prompted by this question, dancer-choreographer DaEun Jung has built a compositional system inspired by Merce Cunningham’s “chance operation” and the Korean alphabet, Hangul. Assigning the segmented movements of classical Korean dance to each morpho-syllabic block of the alphabet, Byoul Part 1: 246 at 40 finds Jung, pansori singer Melody Shim, and sound composer Daniel Corral exploring concurrence of rigor and arbitrary, spontaneity and rules, flow and interruption, dependency and idiosyncrasy, and the conditional and the absolute.

Choreography & Dance: DaEun Jung

Vocals: Melody H. Sim (Shim)

Electronic Sounds & Counter Videos: Daniel Corral

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival

November 4-14, 2021

“LAX corrals the city’s most creative and visionary artists . . . to shape a uniquely West Coast scene.”
—Los Angeles Magazine

Our annual LAX Festival returns in 2021 as a platform for gentle reconnections with Los Angeles-based artists and contemporary performance. This year, we’ve programmed ten days of dance, music, theater, and conversation in a light-filled breezy warehouse space on Mission Road, known lovingly as Frankie.

Artists are sharing projects that were in development before and during a global pandemic. Some have made online debuts, but will meet a live audience for the first time during the LAX Festival. Others are early in development, and created in response/reflection of the past 18 months.

We hope you’ll join us. Tickets are limited, and proof of vaccination is required.