NORRI

NORRI is an evening-length group dance project inspired by the principle, form, and mode of Korean folk dance as a communal performance practice. NORRI, meaning “play” in Korean, creates an inclusive platform to experiment with collaborative pattern compositions while celebrating both collective accomplishments and individual grooves.

Re-stylized Korean dance vocabulary, spontaneous Pansori (Korean traditional folk opera) phrases, and 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.

Collaborators

Choreographer:
DaEun Jung

Sound Composer/Video Counter Creation:
Daniel Corral

Pansori Vocals:
Melody H. Sim (Shim)

Dancers:
Arletta Anderson, Hyoin Jun,
DaEun Jung, and Tulsi Shah

About DaEun Jung

DaEun Jung (She/Her) is a Los Angeles-based choreographer/dancer who interlaces forms, principles, and methods of her ancestral and contemporary performance practices. 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 Loghaven Artist Residency, 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).

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 practice and repertoire of Korean dance in inter/multi-cultural settings as a continuation of her MFA in choreography at UCLA 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.