Daeun Jung

Inspired by Korean dance forms as well as Merce Cunningham’s “chance operation,” exquisite dancer/ choreographer DaEun Jung and singer/ composer Melody Shim frame this nuanced performance in a structure that borrows Cunningham’s “throw of the dice” technique and utilizes the basic structure of the Korean alphabet “Hangul.”  -REDCAT

Choreography: Daeun Jung
Music Composition: Daeun Jung & Melody Shim
Dance: Daeun Jung
Vocal: Melody Shim

Byoul Part 2: Da, a film by Taso Papadakis at 2022 DCW FF, Oct 2021 Experimental Dance & Music Film Festival
Byoul Part 1: 246 at 40 with Daniel Corral at 2021 LAPP LAX Festival, 2020 REDCAT New Original Works Festival

Residency/Lab/Grant support:
Emergency Grant by Foundation of Contemporary Arts
SHIFT/WEST Choreographic Residency at Brockus Project Dance
Forward Dialogues 2 at Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography
Show Box LA at we live in space
MNC at Pieter Performance Space
CASUAL at Bootleg Theater by Los Angeles Performance Practice
Cultural Trailblazers by Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles

The Earthian Folk Dance (EFD) is a communal dance activity created and performed by Earthians. EFD investigates contemporary tactics of organizing repeatable steps and rhythmic play of body-generated sounds, which are accessible to participants of diverse backgrounds. EFD seeks to invent movement tasks that require collective effort and spontaneous decision making which can potentially take the group dance to virtuosity. While accomplishing the communal assignment, EFD celebrates team spirit and bodily exhilaration. EFD challenges the hyper-individualism of post-modern choreographies as well as hyper-cultural-representations of traditional folk dances, questioning the cultural and somatic identity of each participant.

Residency support:
2245 Choreographic Residency by L.A. Dance Project
Camera Obscura Art Lab by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs   
D+R Residency at Automata by Los Angeles Performance Practice

43152 is a dance, rhythm, game, and fictional space. In an arena-configured zone, Willy and Daeun compete or cooperate to complete their joint mission—to dance to the irregular rhythmic pattern, 4-3-1-5-2.

In 43152, two culturally embedded dance/drum practitioners explore the ways to interweave their respective rhythms, steps and movement principles, questioning who or what manipulates their each decision making.

Choreography: Daeun Jung in collaboration with Wilfried Souly
Music Composition: Julio Montero and Daeun Jung
Costume: Haeshin Park
Lighting Design: Arsenio Apillanes

Daeun invites the veggie guests to her home. Red Pepper, Pumpkin, and...

Choreography/ Music/ Performance:
DaeunJung
Sound Recording: Karam Salem
Costume Design: Kristina Garnett
Lighting Design: Arsenio Apillanes

This dance is created based on a rigorous system inspired by Merce Cunningham's chance procedure. The Korean Alphabet, Hangul, provides the basic structure of the system. Daeun applied New Korean Dance vocabulary to each alphabet in a way that arm movements were on the initial consonants, body directions were on the vowels and leg movements were on the final consonants, so the complete sillable would create a movement. A traditional three-verse Korean poem, Chungsan (Blue Mountain is My Heart) offered a chance of randomly combining the movement vocabulary. Then, more options such as movement's duration, level and texture were added to each letter. Times of repetition were separately applied to arm movements and leg movements within one syllable (one movement), and locomotion among leg movements had more options of spatial path. All additional decisions were made by throwing dice.

Choreography/ Dance: Daeun Jung
Sound Composition/ Vocal: Daeun Jung

Dance: Daeun Jung
Guitar: Matheus Poli
Piano: Yoonsuk Choe
Vocal: Hyunjeong Sim
Drum: Seo Ryoung Lee