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
Photos by Taso Papadakis