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PAMS Choice

Introducing outstanding contemporary performing arts
from Korea to the global stage curated by PAMS.

  • Showcase
  • Dance
SHIMMERING LEEYANGHEE
  • 10-15(Wed) 16:20 ~ 17:00
  • Haneul Round Theater, National Theater of Korea
At the pinnacle of total art, where the fluid elegance of Korean traditional dance meets the transcendent state of a dancer lost in movement and music, lies an invitation to the ‘ecstatic joy of dance.’
  • #Yangheelee #koreantraditionaldance #clubdance #rave #edm
Introduction to the work

<Shimmering>, by choreographer Lee Yanghee, is the final work in her <Trilogy of the Pleasure of Dance>, following <Gesamtkunstwerk> (2019) and <Hail> (2020). This piece represents the pinnacle of the choreographer’s total art experience, inviting everyone to the “pleasure of dance” by integrating the traditional Korean dance style (shin-muyong), which Lee Yanghee has long mastered, with rave culture, painting, fashion, and club music. Centering on Korean traditional dance and electronic music as its two main pillars, Shimmering unfolds through themes, structures, and variations—following a format reminiscent of a classical symphony. The title Shimmering (meaning flickering and shining) refers both to the defining characteristics and advanced techniques Lee Yanghee discovered within traditional Korean dance movements, as well as to the radiant state of a dancer who, through intense and rigorous training, has fully realized the form and mastery of the dance. Shimmering celebrates the condensed history of time and the body embedded in each dancer’s unique movement, shaped through long and rigorous training. Based on the foundational style of Lee Yanghee—formed through her embodied experience of traditional Korean dance (Shin-muyong) and 1990s club dance culture—the piece requires each dancer to demonstrate advanced technique, personal interpretation, and spontaneous decision-making in real time. Born from a deep respect for all those who have encountered the world through dance, Shimmering invites both dancers and audiences into a radiant state of shared pleasure.

LEEYANGHEE

Lee Yanghee Lee is an artist who engages with the language of performance art, creating temporary theatre environments and presenting her works in exhibition formats. She began her career as a (new) traditional Korean dancer and actively took part in the underground club culture that thrived in Korea during the 1990s. Through her practice, Lee navigates the hybrid and unexplored realms between ‘tradition and contemporary art.’ channeling the history of her own body as a living archive. Her work delves into the essential qualities of Korean dance gestures and her own archetypal movements, addressing everything that constitutes dance itself: the body, pleasure, and form as central themes. Lee critically examines the conventions and hierarchies of ""tradition,"" that were shaped through the modernization process led by the West and Japan, and envisions a new kind of total art, a gathering through dance.
She was an artist-in-residence at New York Live Arts (2011) and Movement Research (2014–2016), and received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council in 2016. Her notable works include Shimmering, Aficionado, Twixt, Twig, Hedonist, Hail, Gesamtkunstwerk, Dusk, and Unlearn: Form and Cliché. Her major solo exhibitions include Axis and Feet (The Page Gallery, 2024), IN (Whistle, 2024), and Hail (d/p, 2020). Selected group exhibitions include Seeing in the Dark (Busan Biennale, 2024), Big Brother Blockchain (Nam June Paik Art Center, 2024), Theater: Post Media and Site (Busan Museum of Art, 2023), Landscape of Life: Hello Again Today (Ulsan Art Museum, 2023), Play, Pause, Repeat (Boan Inn, 2023), Flesh Stone Oil (WESS, 2022), and The Golden Age of the Gold Rush (Ilmin Museum of Art, 2020)

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.
Concept, choreography, Orchestration Lee Yanghee Associated choreography Choi Seung-yoon
Performance Kang Hanna, Kim Seunghyun, Park Sohee, Song Yoonju, Lee Yanghee, Lee Jaea, Jung Hanbyul, Jo Yoenhee, Choi Seung-yoon, Mang Esilo Art Park Minha
Music Mag Esilo Costume Jaden cho
Stage Management Lee Yool Lighting Noh Myoung Joon
Duration(Full-length) 60 minutes Tour Size 17 (13 performers, 4 staff members)
Contact Lee Yanghee limbo97@gmail.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/leeyanghee_choreographic/
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