Korea National Contemporary Dance Company: Jungle

Our everyday lives are sometimes like a jungle, where everybody has to fight for survival in their own way. This work for 17 dancers of the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company interprets the jungle as a place of collisions between instinct and vitality of the body; it demonstrates how making and being made, the hidden and the revealed, relaxation and tension can run parallel to each other.

For Kim Sung-yong, the company’s director and artistic director, choreography is a process of searching for what he wants to express in the treasury of new things. Jungle, which has toured widely, is based on the movement research he terms ‘Process Init’, which he developed with a focus on “sense and reaction”; through Process Init, dancers are expected to awaken their individual concrete senses and explore mutual responses, creating changes and expansions of movement.

This performance is part of the Abu Dhabi Festival.