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.<\/p>\n
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<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n This performance is part of the Abu Dhabi Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"