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  • Showcase
  • Multidisciplinary/Others
  • Audience Participatory Performance
Between Glances: A Symphony of the Unsaid Elephants Laugh
  • 10-16(Thu) 18:20 ~ 19:00 / 10-16(Thu) 20:30 ~ 21:10
  • Seoul Namsan Gugakdang
In hopes of the moment when the inexpressible connection between different worlds at last becomes a chorus.
  • #Encounter #Engagement #Connection
Introduction to the work

[*RSVP Required] This performance involves a one-on-one interaction between the performer and the audience and cannot be attended without an advance reservation via Swapcard.

The universe is often described as a vast macrocosm, while humans are likened to corresponding microcosms. Within each person lie all the elements and forces of the cosmos, and we each carry our own unique world within us. <Elephants Laugh> has, through various performances, confronted the invisible boundaries and barriers that exist between strangers, creating moments of connection across those divides. <Between Glances: A Symphony of the Unsaid> brings together the community and performers from previous productions to collaboratively create a new work. It invites both audience members and performers, as representatives of various social issues, to share a moment of authentic encounter and mutual engagement. At the instant when people truly face one another, we discover each other’s “doors.” In that brief eye contact, a connection to another indescribable world begins, awakening senses that have long grown dull. Through themes of gaze, attention, relationship, and connection, <Between Glances: A Symphony of the Unsaid> allows participants to experience these ideas through bodily and visual language. By experimenting together with the possibilities of human connection on stage, both audience and creators artistically propose a way to bridge the growing distance between people in modern society, offering a sensory and thoughtful experience. “To face someone” can sometimes offer simple, warm comfort, while at other times it may bring discomfort and unfamiliarity. Yet in these encounters, we seek to witness moments when different worlds—too complex to be fully expressed in words—gradually come together as one harmonious chorus.

Elephants Laugh

Elephants Laugh is a performance collective that orchestrates profound and dramatic encounters between strangers through its work. Anchored in the core concepts of community, sense of place, and audience participation, the group crafts performances that transcend language, delving into a rich spectrum of sensory experiences. Their practice centers on collaborative creation with audiences, resulting in evocative and immersive works. Notable productions include Bodies in the Dark (2015), Muljil1 Muljil (2016), Muljil2 (2018), 3pm to 3pm, 4pm to 4pm (2019), People from Doksan (2020), Unseen Turmoil (2022), and Chachacha (2023).

Here is a table explaining the program details. It consists of direction, cast, composition, music director, showcase time, composition, tour personnel, original work, contact information, and development support.
Director Lee Jinyeob
Duration(Full-length) 60 minutes Tour Size 5 (2 performers, 3 staff members)
Contact Lee Hoyeon / fromhylee@naver.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/elephants__laugh
Review
  • <Between Glances>, in another sense, does not vanish. By creating a new here-and-now that is neither complete fiction nor everyday life, the work makes us feel that even when apart from the place, we are still ‘us’—connected with those whose hands we once held. (ellipsis) The audience moves toward a large, very large circle. The reason they cannot return to the circle is that they have never left it.
    - Yubin Kwon, <A Great, Tremendously Great Circle>

group photo
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