Daeun Jung

NORRI is a group dance inspired by the principle, form, and mode of Korean folk dance as communal performance practice. NORRI (놀이), meaning “play” in Korean, creates an inclusive platform to experiment with complex choreographic tasks while celebrating collective accomplishments and each body’s singularity.

Re-stylized Korean dance vocabulary, spontaneous pansori (Korean traditional folk opera) phrases, and the continuous pulse of electronic sound interact with each other as the rhythmic encounters of past/present, formality/spontaneity, and uniformity/singularity suggest a new contemporary movement.

“…math art in motion” LA Dance Chronicle
“…controlled frenzy” STAGE and CINEMA

In partnership with Los Angeles Performance Practice, NORRI was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. NORRI has been supported by the Korea Foundation, New Music USA’s Creator Fund in 2023-24, and L.A. Dance Project, and the community support of our campaign donors.

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

6-min dance video as part of Kang Seung Lee’s Exhibition

Directed by Kang Seung Lee
Choreographed by DaEun Jung
Director of Photography by Nathan Mercury Kim
Danced by Gabriel Jimenez Montes and Kevin Wong

Production Sponsored by Korea Artist Prize, Prize from National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea and SBS Foundation

∙National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (Seoul, Korea), Oct 2023 - Mar 2024

∙The 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia : Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere curated by Adriano Pedrosa (Venice, Italy), Apr – Nov 2024

The Earthian Folk Dance (EFD) is a communal dance activity created and performed by Earthians. EFD investigates contemporary tactics of organizing folk steps and rhythms, designed to be accessible to participants from diverse backgrounds. It incorporates movement tasks that emphasize collective effort and spontaneous decision-making while striving for virtuosity. Through these shared assignments, EFD fosters team spirit and physical exhilaration. EFD challenges the individualism in postmodern choreography as well as the cultural representations of traditional folk dances, re-defining cultural and somatic identity of each participant.

Residency support:
2245 Choreographic Residency by L.A. Dance Project
Camera Obscura Art Labby 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—dance to/with/over the irregular rhythmic pattern, 4-3-1-5-2.

In 43152, two “non-Western” dance/drum practitioners explore the ways to interweave their embodied 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 veggie guests of diverse backgrounds to her yellow home. Red Pepper, Pumpkin, and...

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