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

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