DANCE

DaEun Jung: BYOUL|NORRI

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday March 22-24, 2024 // 7:30pm on Friday-Saturday & 2:00pm on Sunday

The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

BYOUL|NORRI by Los Angeles-based choreographer DaEun Jung features Pansori song (Korean folk opera), original electronic beats, irregular folk rhythms, Hangul (Korean alphabet system), and chance operation that deconstructs, reinterprets and transforms classical Korean dance. The hour-long concert is performed in two parts, Byoul (별): “star,” a solo performance by the Choreographer herself, and Norri (놀이): “play’, a four part ensemble work.

In her dances, DaEun Jung connects different times and spaces together across cultures and geographies. Her work has redefined the principle, form, structure, and function of Korean classical and folk dance in multicultural settings. DaEun studied at UCLA where she received her MFA in choreography and the Westfield Emerging Artist Award. Previously, she performed in Asia and Europe as a dancer of Gyeonggi Provincial Dance Company, a dance organization renowned for its traditional and contemporary Korean dance repertoire, and also performed as a main actress in Tokebi Storm, a rhythmic physical theater group, presenting Korean-style drumming and dance in more than 1,000 shows to worldwide audiences.