Intro

Watching New Monster is like unwrapping a present and not wanting to rip the paper

Synopsis

New Monster surveys the world by placing figures from Korean mythology, namely, a man, a fairy and a monster, into a modern landscape. The performance attempts to turn the characters into three dancers with their own points of view, in order to examine how the body is re-contextualized by the roles and meanings given by society, and how their bodies are rendered in the borders between

collectivity and individuality, tradition and modernity, humanbeing and animal, and man and woman. New Monster spans the spectrum from a contemporary aesthetic to myth-inspired theatricality, with its overarching poetry only becoming apparent at the end.

Review

Jeeae Lim shows polysemous and abstract structured movement patterns without falling into uncertainty or cliches. The question if certain gestures or nuances of expression were taken from her fundus of her studies at the Hochschulubergreifendes Zentrum Tanz in Berlin or traditional Korean dance, does not arise. They are magically conjured. Her vocabulary of subtle hand movements, elegant jumps and imposing postures always gets to the heart of the matter, every step appears evident in regard to what happened and will happen (…)

? Darrell Wilkins, The magazine ‘Tanz’ Berlin, Germany 2014.04

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Creator / artist

Jeeae Lim comes from a traditional Korean dance background, and has been working on the relationship between the notion of tradition and contemporary in dance. She completed her M.A. in choreography solo/Dance/Authorship at HZT/UdK in Berlin. Lim was a choreographer-in-residence at K3 t Centre for Choreography | Tanzplan Hamburg 2013/14 and a visiting fellow with the Saison Foundation in Tokyo in 2014 and Korea National Contemporary Dance Company in 2015. Her works have been presented at various international festivals. Her artistic practice looks at the body as a moving archive, exploring her own response to cultural traditions and the established dance history in relation to its customary conventions and stereotypes.

Promotion Infomation

TOUR SIZE
Performers : 3
Staff : 2

DURATION
40 min. (No intermission)

STAGE SIZE
Width : 10 m, Depth : 9 m, Height : 6 m

Contact

Jeeae Lim

Interview Link