In Becoming-Dancer, KIM Wonyoung and CHOI Kisub revisit Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A (1978), re-enacting the performance through different bodies on stage. The performance questions the notion of the body itself rather than focusing on the movement, thereby radicalising what dance is and expanding the imagination of what dance can be. To Kim and Project YYIN, every movement can become dance; dance is open to all kinds of movement, even to non-movement. The artists pose question “if dance is open to all movement, is all movement open to all bodies? When every movement became dance, how were we to imagine the body dancing?”.
KIM Wonyoung x Project YYIN’s performance takes place at Frieze Seoul 2024 on Thursday September 5, 12pm and 4pm.
Frieze LIVE 2024 is presented in partnership with DYAD, a private members’ club launching in the heart of Cheongdam in 2025.
Credits
Choreography: RHA Sinae, CHOI Kisub
Performers: KIM Wonyung, CHOI Kisub
Dramaturgy: HA Eunbin
Costume Design: JEONG Hojin
Sound Design: NA Onyoo
Producer: JANG Soohye
Film Director: LEE Juho
Director of Photography: LEE Kunsol
Focus Puller: KIM Seungjoo
Trio A (1978) Original Choreography: Yvonne Rainer
About the artists
KIM Wonyoung is a writer, researcher, and performer who explores the intersections between law, performance, and disability. His choreographic works include Reality Principle (2023), Stationary Orbit (2019). As a performer, he has participated in You Only Live Twice (2022), Becoming-dancer (2020), Love and Friendship Equality Act (2019), and Recognition Struggle; Artist Version (2019, 2024).
Project YYIN is an artist collective based in Seoul, consisting of the theatre director RHA Sinae and the choreographer and dancer CHOI Kisub. Their movement-based performances interrogate the relationship between the linguistic and the bodily, challenging the (im)possibility of writing the unwritable and touching the untouchable. Notable works of Project YYIN feature Quad (2021), Becoming-dancer (2020), and Swim the Abyss (2017).