WORKSHOP
The Poem of Listening
Being contemplative, grounded, physically active and expressive can exist at the same time. For two days, the practice of deep listening with our whole body will be made focusing on dance as a listening state and as an exploration of our body as a poem.
Contact, dance and improvisation are the keys for us to listen transparently and develop our own technique of delicate physical dialogue.
We will dive into the fluid body, breathing-spatial-spiral body, embodied relationship between inner and outer spaces, silence and dynamics, listening and expressing, curiosity about boundaries.
Movement, voice and writing will be included in our listening practice. Music, dance, touch, somatic approach, Body-Mind Centering, Poong-gyung, GAMU will be researched and played as solo work, partnering and group work.
Body-poem as the natural state of all living beings will welcome you and we will dance together to celebrate our meeting.
Let’s meet and dance!
ABOUT ME
Bari Kim is a dance artist, improviser, choreographer based in Jeju, Seoul in South Korea and travels various places. She performs/creates from a state of improvisation, exploring the vitality of time and space, the relationship between dance and music, the transparent body, modernity based on traditionality, movement as embodied nature.
Her focus in dance is listening. She believes that through listening, dance becomes dance itself, music becomes music itself, which allows all the possibilities for the very moment to arise, resonate and express itself. And poems in space begin to be written and read.
Her artistic theme/root is Poong-gyung and GAMU which is “Every being dances and sings by itself”. She keeps learning dance and music from nature, East Asian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy and Korean traditional medical research.
She has been actively sharing her dance in various ways and performing solo, as well as collaborating with various dancers and musicians across different spaces in Korea, Europe and Asia such as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Hungary, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, India, Japan, Ireland and Canada.
She founded the improvisational performance group in 2008, experimenting with genre fusion and improvisation. Also, she has been working as a member of the interdisciplinary duo BARINAMO, the experimental music duo SHINBI BAND and the improvisation music/dance quartet Windstone. She also performs as a musician, a.k.a. CrystalEar, especially with her voice. She has participated in various international residencies, including Research into the Unknown, and has toured with various projects. Recently, she completed a European tour for the improvisational performance project INTERSOUNDANCE in four countries.
She received the Best Dance award 2020 from the Korean Dance Critics Association. For 25 years, she has been experimenting, enjoying, learning from, growing with/by, living and performing improvisation dance.
Contact Improvisation is one of her passions and loves. She has been teaching Contact Improvisation since 2005 in various places/workshops and festivals, such as Seoul International Improvisation Dance Festival, AIAE (Asia Improvisation Art Exchange), Towards (Thailand Contact Improvisation Conference), Samdal Contact Festival, Seoul Contact Improvisation Dance Festival, AOI (Goa, India), Portugal New Year Festival.
She studied French literature (B.A.) at the Konkuk University and choreography (M.F.A.) at the Korean National University of Arts. She is also certified Somatic Movement Educator (SME) of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) and completed Practitioner courses of BMC while in the process of graduation.
She has studied with beautiful dance-movement artist/teachers Nancy Stark Smith, Mike Vargas, Kurt Koegel, Katie Duck, Thomas Kampe, Ted Stoffer, Gizegorz Ziolkowisky, Sinja Hong, Jeongho Nam, Heekyung Blanz Kim, Eunsuk Jo, Joerg Hassmann, Stephanie Maher, Peter Pleyer, Eszter Gal, Jess Curtis, Keith Hennesy, Andrew Morrish, Rosalind Crisp, Daniel Lepkoff, Julyen Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Nina Martin, Walburga Glatz, Maryska Bigos, Bob Lehnberg, Jens Johannsen, Friederike Troscher and Bonnie Bainbridge.
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