DaEun Jung’s work Norri will be showcased this month as part of her L.A. Dance Project’s LAUNCH: LA residency.
Norri is a group dance practice inspired by the principle, form, and mode of Korean folk dance as a communal performance. Norri, meaning “play” in Korean, creates an inclusive platform to experiment with complex choreographic tasks while celebrating collective accomplishments and each body’s singularity. Re-stylized Korean dance vocabulary, spontaneous pansori (Korean traditional folk opera) phrases, and the 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.
July 30: 4pm & 8pm
July 31: 4pm & 8pm
L.A. Dance Project Studios // 2245 E. Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, 90021
Creative Team
Choreography by DaEun Jung
Pansori singing by Melody Shim
Electronic sound by Daniel Corral
Performed by DaEun Jung, Chantal Cherry, Hyoin Jun, Tulsi Shah
Norri is produced with and managed by Los Angeles Performance Practice.
WATCH: In Conversation: LAUNCH:LA Resident DaEun Jung
Video created by L.A. Dance Project
About DaEun Jung
DaEun Jung is a Los Angeles-based choreographer and dancer whose work invites practices and cultures across time and place. Jung’s work has been supported by REDCAT, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Pieter Performance Space, Highways, Electric Lodge, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Korea Foundation. She has received residency support from LA Dance Project, Brockus Project Dance, the City of Santa Monica’s Camera Obscura Art Lab, Dance Resource Center, and Show Box LA, as well as the Forward Dialogues 2019 at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). Her new collaborative project with Daniel Corral and Alexander Gedeon will be developed with a 2022 Loghaven Artist Residency. A master artist of the 2019 Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and 2019-2020 Cultural Trailblazer of City of Los Angeles Department Cultural Affairs, Jung redefines the principle, form, and structure of Korean dance in inter/multi-cultural settings as a continuation of her MFA in choreography at UCLA (2018) where she was also a Westfield Emerging Artist. She was a full-time dancer of Gyeonggido Dance Company which is internationally renowned for its traditional and contemporary Korean dance repertoire. Having six years of specialized training in dance through the National Gugak School as a recipient of the National Theater of Korea Award, she obtained a BA in dance from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea.
