NORRI

Thursday-Friday, November 2 & 3, 8:00 pm

L.A. Dance Project / 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90021

NORRI is an evening-length group dance project inspired by the principle, form, and mode of Korean folk dance as a communal performance practice. NORRI, meaning “play” in Korean, creates an inclusive platform to experiment with collaborative pattern compositions while celebrating both collective accomplishments and individual grooves.

Re-stylized Korean dance vocabulary, spontaneous Pansori (Korean traditional folk opera) phrases, and 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.

NORRI was supported and made possible by L.A. Dance Project, New England Foundation for the Arts, New Music USA’s Creator Fund in 2023-24, and The Korea Foundation.

Collaborators

Choreographer: DaEun Jung
Sound Composer/Video Counter Creation: Daniel Corral
Pansori Vocals: Melody H. Sim (Shim)
Dancers: Arletta Anderson, Hyoin Jun, DaEun Jung, and Tulsi Shah

Live Arts Exchange [LAX] Festival

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

DANCE AT THE ODYSSEY

Feb 17, 18, 19, 2023

Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

BYOULNORRI

BYOULNORRI is an evening of DaEun Jung’s choreographic works layered with pansori (Korean folk opera), electronic beats, irregular folk rhythms, Hangul (Korean alphabet system), and chance operation that deconstruct, reinterpret, and transmute classical Korean dance vocabulary. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, performers of different body histories explore collective accomplishments and individual grooves under the shared rules and systems. 

TICKETS

ARTICLE

"LIFE IN THE DARKNESS, FLASHING LIGHT"

Kkot

Kkot (꽃) is a low-key solo dance that shares the process of patterning and varying gestural movements informed by the style and principle of classical Korean dance. In the cyclized sequence improvisation, Kkot allows tendency, curiosity, and emotional spontaneity of the contemporary body. 

Words in the sentences below excerpted from Yun Dong-ju’s Korean poem “Flowers Bloom in the Garden” prompted Kkot’s vocabulary.

코스모스가 홀홀히 떨어지는 날 우주의 마지막은 아닙니다.

It's not the end of the universe when the cosmos flutters and falls. 

하나의 꽃밭이 이루어지도록 손쉽게 되는 것이 아니라 고생과 노력이 있어야 하는 것입니다.

A flower garden is never planted easily; it requires hard work and effort. 

2022 Flower of the Season

Hyoin Jun, Dani Lunn, Carole Kim, Destefano DeLuise, DaEun Jung

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. 8:00 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 8:00 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 3:00PM

Admission: $ 15

Ticket Link: TBA

ELECTRIC LODGE 

1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, CA  90291. Free parking at Electric Lodge

Body Weather Laboratory presents Flower of the Season 2022. Continuing a 21-year tradition of minimal yet encompassing the use of space and theatricality, this year’s performances will feature Los Angeles Choreographers/performers Hyoin Jun, Dani Lunn, Carole Kim, Destefano DeLuise, DaEun Jung

Join us for a FREE invite-only class with choreographer DaEun Jung

At Stomping Ground

5453 Alhambra Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90032

Tuesday, Aug 23 // 4:00pm-6:00pm

Thursdays, Aug 25 // 4:00pm-6:00pm

                   Sep 1 // 3:00pm-6:00pm

                   Sep 8 // 3:00pm-6:00pm 

Choreographer DaEun Jung is offering a free class to share a somatic movement practice based on Korean dance principles, improvisational exercise with (de)patterning and re-stylizing gestural movements, and numeric/geometric composition methods.

The practice is in use for the development of DaEun’s newest work, Norri, to be produced with Los Angeles Performance Practice. This class is an opportunity to not only share this practice, but also to foster relationships with potential collaborators and dancers for the development and future performances of Norri. 

Norri proposes compositional maps that take dancing bodies to a collective trance state in both rigorously set and transmuted forms. Norri investigates ways to patternize and de-patternize steps and gestural movements by employing systematic sequential play as well as dancing bodies' shared or singular kinesthetic tendencies.

Inspired by the principle, structure, and mode of Korean folk dance as a communal performance exercise that incorporates singing and playing games, Norri (놀이), meaning “play” in Korean, creates an inclusive platform to try out complex choreographic tasks while celebrating collective accomplishments and each body’s singularity. 

TO RSVP: Email daeundance@gmail.com with which date(s) you will participate. 

Former dance training/performance experiences (engaging with core strength and releasing) are recommended to participate in the workshops. You are welcome to attend one class only and we encourage you to attend multiple days of classes if possible.

LAUNCH:LA Residency Showcase at Los Angeles Dance Project

Performances:

July 30 - 31 (Sat - Sun), 4pm and 8pm

Global Motion: SMC World Dance Company

Come experience the excitement and learn about other cultures through performances by SMC dancers showcasing world dance styles — including West African, Flamenco, Ballet, Asian, French Neoclassical, Mexican Folklórico, Salsa, and more! 

Visit www.smc.edu/dance  for more information. 

Raquel Ramirez and Sri Susilowati, Artistic Directors.

IPCHUM

Ipchum was danced by the professional dancers in the very first dance institutions in Korea. As a “basic dance”, literally translated, Ipchum consists of delicate footsteps, elegant arm movements, and stylish skirt manipulation accompanied by the impromptu musical play.

As a modern stage performance, Ipchum has been favored with its varicolored costuming and prop uses that depict the female entertainers in the early 19th, along with the various concepts of movement and stage composition depending on the choreographer.

Milka Djordjevich: CORPS

Choreography Milka Djordjevich

Performance Martita Abril, Dorothy Dubrule, Ayano Elson, Allie Hankins, Tiara Jackson and DaEun Jung

Music Celia Hollander

Lighting Madeline Best

Technical Director & Lighting Associate Katelan Braymer 

Dramaturgical Research Tim Reid

Company Manager Gabriella Rhodeen

Rehearsal Manager Jessica Hemingway 

Costumes Milka Djordjevich

Presented as part of The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

CORPS explores how labor and gender are addressed under the lens of regimented movement. The work is a continuation of choreographer, performer, and educator Milka Djordjevich’s ongoing questioning of dance practices, preoccupied with producing neutrality and anonymity. CORPS aims to unravel and disorient the militaristic conditioning of groups “keeping together in time.” The work reveals similarities across traditional, combative, ritualistic, athletic, and folk movement forms. Over time, methodical systems of labor and cooperation rally into a procession of distorted collectivity. Moving with a steady urgency, the performers yo-yo between collapsing and rectifying, creating an ever-changing engine on a pathway to unruliness.

SHIFT/WEST RESIDENCY DANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Brockus Project Dance

Byoul Part 2: Da

Da reinterprets DaEun Jung and Melody Shim’s long-time collaboration Byoul through the intimate lens of filmmaker Taso Papadakis. Da blurs the boundaries between the classical form and pedestrian moves as well as discipline and spontaneity, branched out from the original project, Byoul, a dance made by chance procedure using the Korean alphabet combining system as a compositional method to randomly arrange classical Korean dance movements.

Sogochum

Sogo Dance (a small, hand-held drum dance) is originated from the farmers’ dance, Nongak, in varied forms, styles and scales. The virtual dance, Sogochum, reimagines kinesthetic excitement, spontaneity, and informality of the farmers’ dance taken place in an individual dancers’ domestic and local areas, sourcing the rhythms and movements of Choi-Jong-Sil-ryu Sogochum which is renowned for its complex and exhilarating sogo play.

Global Motion World Dance Company WATCH

Program

Samba Afro and Samba Reggae
May No One Cry
Wrought 8
Sogochum
Mazatlan

This project is supported in part by grants from Associated Students of Santa Monica College. We partner with The Broad Stage’s Education & Community Programs.

SANTA MONICA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Rob Rader, Chair; Dr. Louise Jaffe, Vice Chair; Dr. Susan Aminoff; Dr. Nancy Greenstein; Dr. Margaret Quiñones-Perez; Dr. Sion Roy; Barry A. Snell; Joshua Elizondo, Student Trustee; Kathryn E. Jeffery, Ph.D., Superintendent/President
Santa Monica College | 1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 | smc.edu

New Original Works Festival 2020: Week Three

"See what’s cutting-edge in the city’s vibrant performing arts scene." —Time Out Los Angeles

VIRTUAL EVENT

The 17th Annual New Original Works Festival continues with a program of works by DaEun Jung; Maria Garcia and Samantha Mohr; Genna Moroni.

DaEun Jung: 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 moves of classical Korean dance to each morpho-syllabic block of the alphabet, Byoul Part 1: 246 at 40—consisting of 246 syllables, moves, and beats at 40 bpm—finds Jung, pansori singer Melody Shim, and sound composer Daniel Corral exploring concurrences of rigor upon arbitrary, spontaneity upon rules, flow upon interruption, dependency upon idiosyncrasy, and the conditional upon the absolute.

Maria Garcia and Samantha Mohr: Laocoӧn with Cabiria at 9

Maria Garcia’s Laocoön with Cabiria at 9 is a one-woman show led by Vatican Museums tour guide Cabiria, who in a nightmare, is confronted with a Trojan Soldier sharing her reflection. Brought to life by choreographer and performer Samantha Mohr, Cabiria’s obsession with the story of the Trojan Horse and the priest Laocoön sends her on a liminal journey of humiliation, pain, banishment, death, and love. Stuck between history and myth, Cabiria’s investigation of the Trojan war explores the designation of “foreign” bodies as dangerous, devious, and in need of discipline.

Genna Moroni: More

Employing unapologetically “ugly,” yet beautiful and raw physicality, dancer-choreographer Genna Moroni’s More invites viewers into the vacuum of female relationships. Slipping between different worlds, stories and perspectives with no clear end in sight, More creates a labyrinth. The audience will have the opportunity to both witness and sense the effort, disappointments and complexities expressed in movement. Layered with music by Adam Starkopf, Moroni and her team of dancers explore the ever-evolving and shifting nature of relationships, inspiring us to find ourselves and leaving a lasting sense that there is still “more.”

All three works will be presented each night.

LMU’s amazing student performers present the works of world-class local, national, and international choreographers.

Dec 11, Friday, 5-6:30 pm
Register Event

Choreography by:

DaEun Jung

Scott Heinzerling

Kristen Smiarowski

Laura Smyth

Sarah Elgart

Please join us on Thursday, December 10th for a lecture/demonstration on Korean dance and traditional dress with DaEun Jung and Leon Wiebers.

by Vic

A backyard dance for you, dear friends.

Performances
Every Sunday afternoon

DaEun Jung
Aaron Mason
Ryan Rockmore
and a surprise guest

*Private Event

Monday Night Class at Pieter Performance Space with DaEun Jung curated by Milka Djordjevich

Groovy Dancers is a movement research/practice that explores simple-to-complex step patterns in both solitary and collective manners by examining the body mechanics and personal tendency of patterning steps. This workshop introduces applicable principles of ancient Korean dance such as subtle weight shift led by foot articulation and breathing technique that helps to utilize the gravity and circular energy flow.

The evening begins with a breath-led warm-up focused on relaxation as a preparation for bodies to generate effortless moves in establishment of organic patterns. Different genres of familiar or risky music facilitate the group investigation of defining rhythmic pulses and enhancing body patterns. Groovy Dancers ultimately seeks to render participants’ dancing grooves, which can be traditional or new, individual or universal, ephemeral or repetitive, through one’s steps and body responses. With a belief that the established grooves on a curtain step pattern can be idiosyncratic based on individuals’ different physical structures as well as movement/cultural practice backgrounds and also can be homogenous according to the efficiency of the body mechanics and physics shared by all human species, Groovy Dancers attempts to foster collective kinesthetic exhilaration between all-bodymind participants.