Bereishit Dance Company: Balance & Imbalance (NYC Premiere)
Co-presented by the Korean Cultural Center New York and NYU Skirball
March 24th (Friday) & 25th (Saturday), 2023 at 7:30pm
NYU Skirball Center For The Performing Arts
(566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012)
Ticket: $43
(Recommended for ages 6+)
Cho Tae Min
Hanfilm
Drawing from many sources, including street dance and martial arts, the Korean Dance Company Bereishit Dance presents two NYC premieres: Balance and Imbalance and Judo.
With Balance and Imbalance, dancers seamlessly partner and then hurtle through space, employing the laws of physics to illustrate the constantly turning wheel of opposition and harmony at the heart of all relationships. The performance, featuring six dancers, is accompanied by an ensemble of Korean traditional drummers.
In Judo, featuring six male dancers, Soon-ho Park views sports as a way to control, mediate, traverse, and indeed transcend the violent, churning urges within us. Using this idea, Judo deploys the symbolic meaning of sports as a counterpoint and frame of reference and presents, through the medium of dance, the harmonious play between rhythm, movement and space.
◆ About Bereishit Dance Company
Founded in 2011 by choreographer Soon-ho Park, Bereishit is a Seoul-based dance company that approaches Korean traditional culture from a contemporary view, keeping the fundamental value of things, as opposed to simply borrowing or transforming them. The work also explores the issues of identity and transformation and delves into multimedia, street dance, community dance work, and real-time interactive demonstration. It displays an amazing sensitivity towards space and rhythms and its performances are always delivered with kinesthetic clarity and power. Bereishit has toured internationally including sold-out houses at the Arts Center of NYU Abu Dhabi. bereishitdance.com
◆ About NYU Skirball
NYU Skirball is NYC’s home for cutting-edge performance, artistic research, and discourse, holding close to James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” NYU Skirball is located in the heart of Greenwich Village, historically a center of resistance, dissent and free thinking. Its programming reflects this history and embraces today’s renegade artists and companies, presenting works that aim to engage, provoke, and inspire audiences. The 800-seat theater, led by Director Jay Wegman, provides a home for internationally renowned artists, innovators, and thinkers and presents ground-breaking events ranging from re-inventions of the classics to the cutting-edge premieres, in genres from dance, theater and performance arts to comedy, music and film.
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Bereishit Dance Company: Balance and Imbalance is co-presented by the Korean Cultural Center New York and NYU Skirball to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the ROK-U.S. Alliance.