https://dancetotheedge.com dancetotheedge Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:26:56 +0000 https://dancetotheedge.com en https://dancetotheedge.com/Homepage Sat, 14 Mar 2020 02:15:17 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/Homepage https://dancetotheedge.com/dancing-being-in-time-1 Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:26:56 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/dancing-being-in-time-1 dancing-being-in-time post/butoh dance + vocals by Min Yoon tr. “Citizen Truth” @dancetotheedge performed at Links Hall, Chicago 2025 90mil Festival, Berlin 2025 Tanzmit Festival, Berlin 2024 [full documentation available on request] dancing-being-in-time is a post/butoh performance of movement and voice by Min Yoon—a ritual of endurance, dismantling, and re-shaping pain patterns post-brutality. “Not for the attention-seeking economy”, a slow evolution over the span of years is compressed into this single hour. It enters the body as a living archive of pain: How is pain danced in the same body that’s been strengthened, calloused by holding the pain relentlessly across years, across lifetimes? Min Yoon creates live emotional sculptures across body and sound in space, loops of experimental durations for the audience to feel &amp; process. The sounds are at times an end-result of physical impulses, looped and processed. Sounds enter the loop back into the body searching for new patterns. The voice and the body chase the origins of the present. The time fractures distort the inner worlds of memory and what happened. Where the body is trapped, the voice presses through. When we can’t go anywhere else when we can’t escape external compression go within. beyond. fantasies of pain travel ((())) time travel. Body as an archive. as a passage. of pain. /// This dance research and performance is supported by DIS-TANZ SOLO Funding – Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Germany. The Chicago performance is generously held and supported by Butoh Curious Chicago &amp; Sara "Sharkey" Zalek / with tech + lights by Giau Trong / filmed by JI YAng &amp; Helen Lee “As pure aesthetic experience it was so visually magnetic, with sound and movement giving rise to each other. On one hand, there seems to be a kernel of persistence with each loop, an immovable principle dictating a history, a trajectory. On the other, every instance of "rewind" brought with it a rupture, a glitch to the algorithmic iteration. This was witnessed by your approaching the audience, the sand clock threatening us with exhausting itself, the sound-music becoming more and more dislocated. Speaking of sound, I so enjoyed the way you designed it. It was a constant reminder of the exertion you put yourself through, the physicality. And it was a tricky rhythmic trap, because it kept breaking it's own symmetry, the skin clashing with the panting clashing with vocalization clashing with movement. The process of intensive repetition made me think of … wars and oppressive systems. As these systems endeavor to perpetuate themselves, there is always a virus of rebellion that sneaks into history, the heavy breathing of one body becoming the resistance of one nation. In the same way you fought fatigue over and over while sustaining the structure of repetition, I wonder if there is a singularity point in history, where it can't contain its own repetition anymore and collapses, or breaks away.” - Words from Mover Efrén Cruz <img width="3600" height="2700" width_o="3600" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d77438856996eec6d627f755601bb9fa2e0f6f4f4e1b238eda1c747c58a5d9ac/2025-05-31MinYoon_9853.jpg" data-mid="235570887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d77438856996eec6d627f755601bb9fa2e0f6f4f4e1b238eda1c747c58a5d9ac/2025-05-31MinYoon_9853.jpg" /><img width="3600" height="2700" width_o="3600" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62c39587a79e836bf81235778ffab4ff52b0dd9ed2b2ddeb82140ca2d63d793d/2025-05-31MinYoon_9967.jpg" data-mid="235570888" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62c39587a79e836bf81235778ffab4ff52b0dd9ed2b2ddeb82140ca2d63d793d/2025-05-31MinYoon_9967.jpg" /><img width="3600" height="2700" width_o="3600" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/703e6bfb531001c4b770095d4d76af0dcf3a9f18738089085958230ed225d093/2025-05-31MinYoon_10093.jpg" data-mid="235570889" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/703e6bfb531001c4b770095d4d76af0dcf3a9f18738089085958230ed225d093/2025-05-31MinYoon_10093.jpg" /><img width="3600" height="2700" width_o="3600" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e3baf17abc6fda4deb6e3967be5bf325ecdd9179e071282c90c1f372663c0a7/2025-05-31MinYoon_9276.jpg" data-mid="235571738" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e3baf17abc6fda4deb6e3967be5bf325ecdd9179e071282c90c1f372663c0a7/2025-05-31MinYoon_9276.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2700" width_o="3600" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a49ccd8ec5c0ac72fdea4987197075dbf41e76863b83c38de556ae95d68f5ad2/2025-05-31MinYoon_9330.jpg" data-mid="235570886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a49ccd8ec5c0ac72fdea4987197075dbf41e76863b83c38de556ae95d68f5ad2/2025-05-31MinYoon_9330.jpg" /> photography by Phillip Tawanchaya ___ https://dancetotheedge.com/post-origins-of-a-woman Tue, 07 May 2024 15:09:51 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/post-origins-of-a-woman post/origins of a woman&nbsp; Performed at Oyoun, Berlin March 24 2024 &amp; April&nbsp; 21 2024 supported by and commissioned for GADAG exhibition also performed at Highways Gallery, LA, CA &amp; Headwaters Theater, Portland, ORfull documentation available on request dance / vocals / choreography by Min Yoon tr. “Citizen Truth” @dancetotheedgedrums / electronics by Wieland Möller "post/origins of a woman" is a dance of healing history and confronting the present violence on the femme and marginalized bodies and perspectives. The dance re-members the history of the wianbu, comfort women, and processes deep pains and fantasies of healing in the body that remains, beyond words. This performance depicts violence, affect, tremors, and strength in the femme body. In a fantastical storybook of memories that span history &gt;&gt;&gt; Chapter 1: riding, being ridden … Chapter 2: a toilet to receive … Chapter 3: pain as a garment … Chapter 4: healing in waves … Chapter 5: to forget or forgive … … … Outtro with audience A satirical butoh dance piece of rebellion of the body … reminiscent of divisions, war, bodies, memories slipping&nbsp;through, holding on to a quiet power within attacks, waiting to start a new movement between two scores, trapped in an&nbsp;infinite loop, breaths in a chokehold, typhoons, desert, a hand longing, millions of lives, dissociating beyond&nbsp;//&nbsp;For Your&nbsp;Comfort&nbsp;... ... ...In the images of war that flood our consciousness, searching to reprocess and reroute in the present irreconcilable loops. In honor of, reclamation for 위안부 “comfort woman” i.e. victims of sexual violence by the Japanese Imperial Army, a history in process of healing.&nbsp;* This piece is a revival of a dance premiered at the Headwaters Theater, with music by Institute for Creative Dying.* In the April 21 show, music was improvised by DAN SU. <img width="5168" height="3448" width_o="5168" height_o="3448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f353829c4dc4ea5bfc14f60eeab6174ca7ea3221a491eaec7f5097e3d4d5d00/16E0AF27-7719-4C04-AC0B-64E32C3707FA_1_201_a.jpeg" data-mid="210449934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f353829c4dc4ea5bfc14f60eeab6174ca7ea3221a491eaec7f5097e3d4d5d00/16E0AF27-7719-4C04-AC0B-64E32C3707FA_1_201_a.jpeg" /> <img width="1086" height="725" width_o="1086" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7f87e2ade96d7a5796ab936dee43864f4ea9ff8a2d13859341a6b9a211a0372/1_Min-Yoon-by-Thuong-Dang.jpeg" data-mid="210449589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7f87e2ade96d7a5796ab936dee43864f4ea9ff8a2d13859341a6b9a211a0372/1_Min-Yoon-by-Thuong-Dang.jpeg" /> <img width="5168" height="3448" width_o="5168" height_o="3448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0d31c82180e1d84849236f1f089dc1bf5f5ad173701261e50816bc90b910f6a/2_Min-Yoon-by-Thuong-Dang.jpeg" data-mid="210449590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0d31c82180e1d84849236f1f089dc1bf5f5ad173701261e50816bc90b910f6a/2_Min-Yoon-by-Thuong-Dang.jpeg" /> <img width="5168" height="3448" width_o="5168" height_o="3448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea0b12c1a87cd60f29e6cf1d06690d71696b1acba25254a6466c942353dbc4c2/22704A6A-D22A-4435-89E3-EA108EE75809_1_201_a.jpeg" data-mid="210449594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea0b12c1a87cd60f29e6cf1d06690d71696b1acba25254a6466c942353dbc4c2/22704A6A-D22A-4435-89E3-EA108EE75809_1_201_a.jpeg" /> <img width="8192" height="5464" width_o="8192" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b699e5cfd82bf50380f08099e60648a6f31a3190fbab0b5ebc9a648c0f662548/Min-by-Schirin-Moaiyeri.JPG" data-mid="235571866" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b699e5cfd82bf50380f08099e60648a6f31a3190fbab0b5ebc9a648c0f662548/Min-by-Schirin-Moaiyeri.JPG" /> photography by Thuong Dang ___ https://dancetotheedge.com/Dancing-with-Violence Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:32:43 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/Dancing-with-Violence Dancing with Violence&nbsp;&nbsp; a participatory audio dance performance November 12 2022 :: Live Performance at Hošek Contemporary, Berlin Two Showings at 3:30pm and 6:30pm experience was also available online wwwDecember 2022 - May 2024 Preview:&nbsp;https://soundcloud.com/dancetotheedge/fe6c3bca-44cf-4869-8de3-7862acf9be26(feel free to reach out to listen to full) generously supported by // Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ - STEPPING OUT, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen der Initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.<img width="848" height="192" width_o="848" height_o="192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/860ac2e22c393a7614aa1beb18e44439cdf3ed83482c85f129e1edefc032fc40/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-8.53.00-AM.png" data-mid="155517170" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/848/i/860ac2e22c393a7614aa1beb18e44439cdf3ed83482c85f129e1edefc032fc40/Screen-Shot-2022-08-11-at-8.53.00-AM.png" /> Dancing with Violence is a participatory audio dance performance, inspired by the somatic memories and transformation of violence of Anonymous One… a psychosomatic experience… a meditation… a fictional memoir set in landscapes of perspectives… an immersive performance in the dark with heightened auditory senses and movement of the audience... with inspirations from Anonymous One // Artistic Direction, Dance Research, and Words by Min Yoon tr. “Citizen Truth” // Music, Composition and Sonic Landscapes by Wieland Möller // Words and Production by Rodrigo Zorzanelli // Movement Research by Nicola Bullock // Dramaturgical Advice: Jan Maihorn (sound / theater), Jessica Gaynor (dance / choreography), Tom Foskett-Barnes (sound / theater) you are invited to dance with the personal and trans-personal exploration of violence. in darkness, the participants will be invited to dance with the memories, sensations, and imaginations of One dancer’s experience of violence, inspired by butoh-fu, movement instructions using imaginative and poetic language and evocative sounds...Min Yoon · dancing with violence (Preview / a participatory audio dance performance)... to evolve the perpetrator and victim archetypes ... to express and transform impulses in all of us… dancing with the different tendencies may they be called anger, fear, angst, justice, collisions, some existential joke or symphony… we hope that this piece will contribute toward more spaces for more people to experience the multitude of perspectives toward healing and reconciliation or possibly a deeper understanding beyond words without resolve. &amp; In a moment of coming out of isolation and possibly more attuned to our inner feelings, we hope that audio can bring together the inner, outer, and collective experiences in moving together… in moments of continuing to search for answers to the atrocities happening all around us… . . . This project started with the question of sharing somatic memories and dance scores beyond the body of one dancer in performance, to the audience through experiencing the memories through movement. With one Anonymous dancer, I researched where and how memories and stories of violence is stored in the body. Then with another writer and musician, we translated this dance research into an auditory and participatory dance piece that is offered online currently. The experience was also shared live to dancers and unprofessional movers in the audience. &nbsp; . . .Thank you to the Anonymous One who was open to sharing their story for the possible openings in others. They were identified in an open call workshop exploring the victim and perpetrator archetypes. Thanks to Brukmuk and Michiel Renger for generously allowing us to use their driving Technobeats in the soundscape. We would also like to thank the European Academy of the Healing Arts, Klein Jasedow for sound inspirations, as well as Hošek Contemporary Gallery, Theaterhaus Mitte, and Laborgras Studios for support throughout the research and premiere. The piece also has many inspirations and connections to Anna and Daria Halprin’s Life/Art Process, Process Work, butoh dance, and Laurie Anderson. . . . Richard Pettifer with Berlin’s Tanzschreiber also joined us and provoked more questions in his review: https://tanzschreiber.de/en/in-the-dark-dark-ship/&nbsp; <img width="750" height="784" width_o="750" height_o="784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc0c9c3fd78dc86f658d6e6bd3409467f2aa222ce000bdd5a83c1cf9d1f34e7d/IMG_4370.jpg" data-mid="237972531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/fc0c9c3fd78dc86f658d6e6bd3409467f2aa222ce000bdd5a83c1cf9d1f34e7d/IMG_4370.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="767" width_o="750" height_o="767" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/302ab2d7324f71a683b0dcc56e34c35f5c78e73745dcd6dc1506801fb13cb49e/IMG_4371.jpg" data-mid="237972530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/302ab2d7324f71a683b0dcc56e34c35f5c78e73745dcd6dc1506801fb13cb49e/IMG_4371.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="934" width_o="750" height_o="934" 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width="750" height="936" width_o="750" height_o="936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98ff41dd31e78bad49c724474b2015cebebd1142fa5e9ae9c3b023fbf9c7eba7/IMG_4367.jpg" data-mid="237972533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/98ff41dd31e78bad49c724474b2015cebebd1142fa5e9ae9c3b023fbf9c7eba7/IMG_4367.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="933" width_o="750" height_o="933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7db247dc4abe62a5ca87831ad9b4f865bf7e4d24502b51c6f9c0b66017c4f47b/IMG_4366.jpg" data-mid="237972534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/7db247dc4abe62a5ca87831ad9b4f865bf7e4d24502b51c6f9c0b66017c4f47b/IMG_4366.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="926" width_o="750" height_o="926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e59d726efa67e3d5e8ab1fc84e97502c74930ae7ffe930cf7aa071070e5ed799/IMG_4364.jpg" data-mid="237972536" border="0" 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data-mid="237972542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/e889d4930e1bbdbd20f8bbb1ec59a7668f38571128b3f361c62a7fb51497b004/IMG_4358.jpg" /> Dancing with Violenceat Tanzmit Festival in Berlin photography by Uta Kargel, Palo y Piedra about Movement workshop and collaboration We hosted an Open Call for one Mover Collaborator to collaborate with us in exploring themes of violence and evolving the perpetrator and victim archetypes.Timeline Workshop Offerings: August 6th, 14 - 19h :: Perpetrator Archetype August 7th, 14 - 19h :: Victim Archetypeat Studio laborgras | Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44A, Berlin | 2nd backyard, groundfloor Week of August 8 :: research with Mover Collaborator If you are potentially interested to be the Mover Collaborator in this collaboration...&nbsp;... you’re invited to join a 1 day of workshop offering to explore and evolve the archetypes of perpetrator and victim. The workshop methods are inspired by Anna &amp; Daria Halprin’s Life/Art Process and butoh dance. *** The workshop will be limited to 15 people per day and you will receive a confirmation within the week of your signing-up. *** This workshop will be a free and open workshop as the facilitation is funded by NPN. *** We are looking for folx with experience with movement and an openness to sharing their story. *** We recognize the fluidity and multitude of experiences between the perpetrator and victim archetypes. Although each day has a primary focus, both days will explore both to an extent. Please choose the experience that you resonate more deeply with, in connection to one particular story that is meaningful for you.&nbsp; *** This will be a way of seeing whether we would like to work with one another more deeply as the main Mover Collaborator.&nbsp; *** Then the one main Mover Collaborator will receive compensation for five days of their time, as well as 1:1 somatic facilitation during this research period.&nbsp; The format for this piece and creation process values experimenting across the personal, universal, and abstractions toward sharing somatic experiences beyond the stage and in the collective somatic experience. &nbsp;A new experiment for this performance will be that - the audience will be on stage as well dancing to this audio theater piece - with the intention to create more spaces for more people to experience the multitude of perspectives toward themes of healing and reconciliation or possibly a deeper understanding beyond words without resolve.&nbsp; In a moment of coming out of isolation and possibly more attuned to our inner feelings, we hope that audio can bring together the inner, outer, and collective experiences in moving together. *** To register for the workshop, send an Email to&nbsp;dancetotheedge@gmail.com with: a few sentences about your interest in project &amp; theme of violence a few sentences about your experience with movement your choice of August 6 (exploration of the Perpetrator archetype) or August 7 (Victim archetype)portfolio, questions, or anything else you’d like to share (optional) <img width="1024" height="1024" width_o="1024" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b45a0aa0e310035aea8204a57f6064f77d004d18eb271750a826741103c113f/DALLE-2022-09-29-17.25.11---abstract-dancer-in-the-darkness-in-tensegrity-becoming-digital-art-in-style-of-salvador-dali-and-m.c.-escher.png" data-mid="154422688" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b45a0aa0e310035aea8204a57f6064f77d004d18eb271750a826741103c113f/DALLE-2022-09-29-17.25.11---abstract-dancer-in-the-darkness-in-tensegrity-becoming-digital-art-in-style-of-salvador-dali-and-m.c.-escher.png" /> “dancer in the darkness in tesengrity” created with Dall-E2 ___ https://dancetotheedge.com/POLLUX Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:32:25 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/POLLUX <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63e54c2a689fb4e25694aa83e207cf48b8f06193c97aa94adb1138beb874e309/IMG_0359.JPG" data-mid="228823960" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63e54c2a689fb4e25694aa83e207cf48b8f06193c97aa94adb1138beb874e309/IMG_0359.JPG" /> POLLUX Nick Dunston + Min Yoon duo based in Germany and USA [post][not][between][with] improvised and neue music banjo + feeedback contemporary and butoh dance performance experience POLLUX, the duo of Min Yoon and Nick Dunston uses structured improvisations within interdisciplinary contexts. Dunston plays with various forms of feedback, Yoon with butoh dance and improvisation. Notions of physicality, communication between bodies, and performativity are central to the duo. They continue where discontinuation happens, forming sutures and scars to explore relational dynamics between the bodies, instruments, the inner and outer experience, audience, and space. Together they make rogue interplays between Nick’s arm, leg, banjo, feedback loops, and Min’s interactions with the inner emotions and impulses, outer, and shared and broken spaces. They experiment with ways of communicating underneath known disciplines and improvisation forms, at the edges of formal and folk expressions. “It scatters pulses of meaning and sends them on a collision course with other pulses.”&nbsp; <img width="746" height="490" width_o="746" height_o="490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/329d9333b32a6122502aee0cc10e4ca774dd92ffd0b9b161486d194282355f95/nick-by-arnis-kalnis.jpg" data-mid="228823953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/746/i/329d9333b32a6122502aee0cc10e4ca774dd92ffd0b9b161486d194282355f95/nick-by-arnis-kalnis.jpg" />Nick Dunston by Arnis Kalņiš <img width="4080" height="2679" width_o="4080" height_o="2679" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7029d551cac40b434849e2d8e03545ad4d343169a090999ae593b843bf5dd980/Min-by-Thuong-Dang-copy.jpg" data-mid="228823959" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7029d551cac40b434849e2d8e03545ad4d343169a090999ae593b843bf5dd980/Min-by-Thuong-Dang-copy.jpg" /> Min Yoon by&nbsp;thương đặng /// butoh + banjo + feedback at Richten25, Berlin (Full) /// improvisation at Trauma Tanz, Berlin, excerpts 0:00 part 1: repetitions of slow crossings 3:02 part 2: in whiplash, being struck, finding agency against the rhythm 5:55 part 3: center positive, codependency in relational physicality with Nick+[banjo]+Min Trauma Bar Tanz Studio, Berlin 2024 /// sessions at ZK/U artist residency / Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik /// <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3fb8dbc7e04c4f23073bd9ba611cf926aeac9bc43ae5660755df780a23d7eb3/IMG_0283.JPG" data-mid="228823962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3fb8dbc7e04c4f23073bd9ba611cf926aeac9bc43ae5660755df780a23d7eb3/IMG_0283.JPG" /> <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09f8de5ac3a11b89b34ebc3c185f4babb76aa9077ef4b0d5b44a20bddde22fe0/IMG_0175.JPG" data-mid="228823961" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09f8de5ac3a11b89b34ebc3c185f4babb76aa9077ef4b0d5b44a20bddde22fe0/IMG_0175.JPG" /> <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/501adb94325ffa6020931bca624d6f8ffc151346b8468f8a572a58cf8e967711/xx_IMG_0126.JPG" data-mid="228823963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/501adb94325ffa6020931bca624d6f8ffc151346b8468f8a572a58cf8e967711/xx_IMG_0126.JPG" /> <img width="2768" height="1848" width_o="2768" height_o="1848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d540cd50833aaaa01b67ff77abfb6238fc5f6bf9470492b5de9275b0ce9a948f/xx_DSC01356.JPG" data-mid="228823964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d540cd50833aaaa01b67ff77abfb6238fc5f6bf9470492b5de9275b0ce9a948f/xx_DSC01356.JPG" /> photography by Theo Ilichenko https://dancetotheedge.com/joker-s-remorse Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:23:26 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/joker-s-remorse Joker’s Remorse, Butoh Ritual Performance March 17 &amp; 18, 2022 | Headwaters Theater | Portland, Oregondance by Min Yoon tr. "Citizen Truth" // music by Wieland Möller // lighting by Dug Martell // filming by Anda Arroway Joker’s Remorse distorts and plays with the defeated, uprising, power, righteousness, exhaustion, chaos, and remorse. The body dances to edges and extremes to see what emerges.This Joker dances for collective failures, remorse, grief, rage, and new turns,&nbsp;with the uncontrollable, allowing the inner tremors of anguish to rise and fall. The Joker questions performing oppressive patterns as a rebellion, in this post-butoh attempt to queer emotionality. This butoh dance choreography was developed as part of the two-week Movement Residency with Trauma Bar und Kino in Berlin, Germany. Its premiere is at the Headwaters Theater in Portland, Oregon.&nbsp; Thank you to the Headwaters Theater and Water in the Desert for making this performance as well as the butoh community unimaginably possible. Joker's Remorse | Trailer from Citizen Truth on Vimeo. <img width="2560" height="1434" width_o="2560" height_o="1434" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fbfb87c93764e5bd600fb972fcee929e1a5f19ff316de82596706bab0f6b3cc/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-6.13.49-PM.png" data-mid="110618589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fbfb87c93764e5bd600fb972fcee929e1a5f19ff316de82596706bab0f6b3cc/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-6.13.49-PM.png" /><img width="2560" height="1424" width_o="2560" height_o="1424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c958133593b944c0cd7c3df05fd51f5283ea649ef344c400c9a476bd6c65789/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-6.15.02-PM.png" data-mid="110618588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c958133593b944c0cd7c3df05fd51f5283ea649ef344c400c9a476bd6c65789/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-6.15.02-PM.png" /> Images by Yozy Zhang ___ https://dancetotheedge.com/bloom-in-FIRE Mon, 04 Sep 2023 08:32:28 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/bloom-in-FIRE Bloom in FIRE October 2023 at the Headwaters Theater, Portlandresearch and choreography by Min Yoon // movement with Frances Nay, Imani Garnett, Jen Shin, Layna Lewis, Miro Oh, Piper Josephine // music with Firebrand by WICKING GROUND // with mentorship from Rosario Sammartino and Daria Halprin of the Tamalpa Institute Are we watching the same dream, one of trembling sculptures that remember and re-member? In converging inner landscapes of fires, the bodies harden and they crackle. The impulses pattern and re-pattern victimization and perpetration. They search for new directions while being dragged down and dragging down. They become a container, parts of a trap, a door, and a labyrinth in the social architectures. In a call for bodies to research violence internally and relationally, Min Yoon collaborated with movers for four days at the Headwaters Theater in Portland. They shared images from the research in a butoh ritual performance and dialogue with the audience on violence in expressing, watching, and relating in space together, and the current and perpetual devastation, colonization, and atrocities coming through the group body.&nbsp; For bodies that remember violence and dance to integrate the forces that have erupted, damaged, hurtFor the perpetrators, victims, and plurality, polarity, and community within usFor bodies navigating the dance of life with inner | outer violence, relational violence, personal, and political violence ~~~ from the movers~~~ “So as I danced this violence I followed the straight lines of decisiveness and conviction. My strong elbow joints wield protection and throw shade if threatened. The pain body as described by Eckhart Tolle rears upon its hind legs in fiery reactivity. Knees point toward goals and never consider the ruinous practice of how they achieve them- let alone try to change their approach. All bony-hard projection and trajectories, all lazer-focused path-burning assertion. All qualities of ferocious focus and blind determination, strong yet unwilling to compromise or hold opposing truths as valid, let alone empathize with such truthsayers.”“The thing that surprised me about the perpetrator was how akin it felt to the victim. With each, I felt the emotions of helplessness, loneliness, sadness, and immense pain. Each of the archetypes wielded a weapon, something sharp. This sharpness is what I've been thinking/writing about in my work so it was interesting to see it come through in dance. In changing each of these, I found relief, lightness, vulnerability. When I was in the perpetrator role, I heard the phrase, ‘I am so tired,’ which is a mantra that has run through my head many times before. Tired of keeping the anger lit, tired of protecting myself so fiercely that I hurt others. I felt the fatigue, both in my mind and body.”“I zoned in on the sense of violation, being violated in body and mind, from physical and mental and even emotionally manipulative abuse. There is nothing advantageous there. Even camaraderie is a struggle when the first obstacle of the victim is to reveal oneself as victim.”“I wanted to explore this line of violence that runs in my blood. I see violence in the anger that I experience and have enacted upon loved ones.”“I dedicate this dance of violence to relationships and taking responsibility for my part in the aid of their evolution, all in good time.” <img width="2560" height="1402" width_o="2560" height_o="1402" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ad7f5769fbd1188e9f608a3ae2b050af1a3a879a0f49e9ed69f961abf70faee/Screen-Shot-2023-11-21-at-10.54.17-PM.png" data-mid="197929180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ad7f5769fbd1188e9f608a3ae2b050af1a3a879a0f49e9ed69f961abf70faee/Screen-Shot-2023-11-21-at-10.54.17-PM.png" /> <img width="2178" height="1212" width_o="2178" height_o="1212" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff7c33fb3fc924d016e8520878ffd940dd4160386d4e8d2228872da3948aa946/Screen-Shot-2023-11-24-at-2.22.49-PM.png" data-mid="197929181" border="0" 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width="2180" height="1224" width_o="2180" height_o="1224" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b934ba3b0dd9994756c921efb61202ce311600e431283317505226e148a7248/Screen-Shot-2023-11-24-at-2.23.48-PM.png" data-mid="197929286" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b934ba3b0dd9994756c921efb61202ce311600e431283317505226e148a7248/Screen-Shot-2023-11-24-at-2.23.48-PM.png" /> https://dancetotheedge.com/BEFORE-WE-RUN-TO-THE-MOON Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:23:30 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/BEFORE-WE-RUN-TO-THE-MOON BEFORE WE RUN TO THE MOON, Butoh Ritual Performance a performance project of conjointed rebellion in habitat for the new <img width="5999" height="3999" width_o="5999" height_o="3999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6940aafaa0cff4b81bbcebe5c3d9f1e5ff651fdc6c036737a6c0996d0957392c/cedric-dhaenens-iLpZof5sFCQ-unsplash.jpg" data-mid="117060354" border="0" 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What would inspire us to stay... here on earth, here in our neighborhoods, here in our bodies? How do we dream of others moving alongside us ... with us … with what is hidden and what is shown? How do we find ourselves again and again in constant movement, in constant relation, in the challenging and the sweet? Do we dream as a collective body? ABOUT THE WORK:What are the last images to flicker before the eyes... of collective conflict into collective care to transmit into the eyes of others? What would inspire us to stay... here on earth, here in our neighborhoods, here in our bodies? How do we dream of others moving alongside us ... with us … with what is hidden and what is shown? How do we find ourselves again and again in constant movement, in constant relation, in the challenging and the sweet? Do we dream as a collective body?In this performance project,~~~ professional and semi-professional movers were invited to reflect on a personal conflict… this may be where there is a strong charge of emotions in their life, difficulties, dreams, deeper life questions, meaning, emotions, relationships.~~~ they were supported and facilitated 1:1 with Process Work’s methods of conflict resolution, dreams analyses, and cultivating a different kind of awareness + Tamalpa’s Life / Art Process of using the expressive arts medium to reach a deeper state + imagery and movements inspired by butoh dance~~~ we then&nbsp; asked together - how are these personal conflicts related to world-level conflicts we face together? What do we see, feel, and dream around conflict and the social care around these conflicts~~~ we explored choreographic and artistic scores of relationality and collective movement, related to the themes and dreams that emerge from our individual needs, using improvisational methods and images inspired by butoh dance and natureOUTCOMES:Based on the individual and group’s explorations of conflict, we came up with the final topic of solidarity to research with different group scores. I developed one group score of images and scenarios, based on our initial research. Then with this group score, we reflected on our impulses, choices, and the choices not made, then tried modifying the score 3 more times. We also researched what a choreography of care would look like, and how this connects to our lives. Butoh dance has a way of working with people’s edges &amp; I loved sharing this with others.The movers reflected that they experimented with inner and outer impulses, such as leaving the group, feeling pressured by the group, feeling ease in supporting one person in the group with others, being able to wait within the network to see whether they have capacity to support, and seeing where their desires are coming from and seeing others mirroring. &nbsp; p.s. In a memory or dream I still fantasize about, I found myself suddenly losing my vision in a group of people I didn’t know. We were being chased. A stranger gently guided me by the waist, to run. I still couldn’t see but I was moved. In movement, I lost sense of where my body started and ended. In this moment of falling, I fell into the collective body. I wondered if this is what trust feels like between bodies in and beyond conflict and motion. I fantasize about our bodies as a dancing organism in a system of care. <img width="1236" height="852" width_o="1236" height_o="852" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04ec5cb55ef78130dfec71afb11545991846d492925fd327d9eee6cdbc8242e8/Screen-Shot-2021-11-11-at-1.48.28-PM.png" data-mid="130197312" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04ec5cb55ef78130dfec71afb11545991846d492925fd327d9eee6cdbc8242e8/Screen-Shot-2021-11-11-at-1.48.28-PM.png" /> <img width="1464" height="890" width_o="1464" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37de0520118bfca0ac26fb931578ca2e0459be6d53aa7a21baa1f289e4f477f7/Screen-Shot-2021-11-11-at-1.48.43-PM.png" data-mid="130197336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37de0520118bfca0ac26fb931578ca2e0459be6d53aa7a21baa1f289e4f477f7/Screen-Shot-2021-11-11-at-1.48.43-PM.png" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" 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width_o="1862" height_o="1210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c45df3deb221f3809bac6e869742ee4cb649eff68069f7d1447b28d62b9e647/Screen-Shot-2021-11-11-at-1.55.46-PM.png" data-mid="130197378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c45df3deb221f3809bac6e869742ee4cb649eff68069f7d1447b28d62b9e647/Screen-Shot-2021-11-11-at-1.55.46-PM.png" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f805bbdfc85b9d0f19cfacdc7ec2579551626d629a8ce5d49232864e937ef365/IMG_4142.JPG" data-mid="130197366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f805bbdfc85b9d0f19cfacdc7ec2579551626d629a8ce5d49232864e937ef365/IMG_4142.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4886ebfebdfce34e94b2bf1a61ca7f78b5fe13445627640a9a38cb4f42ae6d0/IMG_4143.JPG" data-mid="130197367" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0edfb2769b0f1a9b9fec3c484746c9834f5b96611adc52b9a0ecffc62e6faadd/peter-besser-gq4kE8KRP8c-unsplash.jpg" data-mid="117060353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0edfb2769b0f1a9b9fec3c484746c9834f5b96611adc52b9a0ecffc62e6faadd/peter-besser-gq4kE8KRP8c-unsplash.jpg" /> image by&nbsp;peter besser___ https://dancetotheedge.com/dancing-being-in-time-Living-Archive Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:25:05 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/dancing-being-in-time-Living-Archive dancing-being-in-time a living archive | dance research intro: Dancing Being in Time is a living butoh dance archive connecting my previous solo dance works, their most striking moments, and tracing the evolution of choreography and archetypes through years of solo performances, with their political, ancestral, and artistic historicality and backgrounds. Through process documentation in video, blogs and prototype dance instruction audio, I hope to expand what we know about dance and psychosomatic journeys, studying the patterns of impulse in one body over time. As a Dancing Being in Time, I question whether the impulses of my body are traumatic patterns of oppression over the span of centuries of violence, and how my dance integrates with my life over the span of years. While the answers may not literally emerge in dance performance, the deep questions may change the methods, intentions, and possibilities in teaching and choreographing other bodies involving and transforming challenging and possibly traumatic tendencies. The title is inspired by Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time and how we can / cannot separate ourselves from the patterns we have inherited and been thrown into. I ask- Is there a present node of the moment that shifts the patterns? How can the historical lineages and the shifts be visible and understandable? Are the impulses in our bodies connected to the political / ancestral, across multiple projects over years? What are intentional / unintentional transformation in the art and life of a dancer, surrounding one+ piece? How are former choreographies relevant to the body in the present?&nbsp; To share my background, after intense years of training and performing in butoh dance, I wanted to teach the inner senses of dance that deeply moved and changed me and went to study Anna and Daria Halprin’s Method at the Tamalpa Institute. I also worked to integrate butoh dance, psychosomatic therapy, and conflict resolution with a Masters at the Process Work Institute. Image Still by Isabelle Schmitz part I: a butoh living archive [auto-fictional graphic noir film: 11 minutes] This is some kind of auto-fictional graphic noir, on how pain lives in the body over time. Hello, I am a butoh dancer and i wondered about the body as a living archive, how the body changes &amp; specifically, how it would be to dance again performance pieces fro the past that first started in pain. In butoh dance, the body speaks what is hard to say because of the magnitude of emotional / psychological charge, or because of political suppressions. There are other dance forms that codify stories that cannot be spoken due to censorship. This is one account of a dancer’s living archive, which i hope brings people inspiration for transformation in life through dance. The title is inspired by Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time and how we can / cannot separate ourselves from the patterns we have inherited and been thrown into. [This is not necessarily a feat of technique or mastery. Often times archives are for the dead and famous. I’m a professional yet emerging artist that performs with organic movements for authenticity. I am also a deep lover of film yet well, i hope my more diy film cut and paste does not take the viewers out too much.] I started out by watching videos and reviewing notes from my own choreographies from around 5-7 years ago. In the studio this year (2023), I redid these dances, recorded on video, and through video review / writing, attempted to gain enough distance to write about the differences between the performance time and now. I reflected on - what were the influences artistically and in topics and themes? how are my body and being different now? what is new? is there a moment that changes the patterns? what happened in my life since / with the dance? I anchored this video on one piece from 2018 called “Origins of a Woman” performed at the Headwaters Theater in Portland. It was a personal dance about sexual violence and sexuality that I connected to the surrounding #metoo movement and the embodiment of the comfort women, victims from Korea and more Asian countries of sexual violence by the Japanese Imperial Army. As a body from Korea that grew up mostly in the U.S., with related experiences yet not in the same magnitude, i was somewhat far and near to that past, place, and life. The dance piece is poetically “... reminiscent of divisions, war, bodies, breath of memory slipping through, holding on to a quiet power within while being attacked, the moment of waiting to start a new movement in music between two scores, typhoons, desert, a hand longing for a hold at the end of a day, a lifetime, chasing the sun as it is setting, beyond ... ... …” Then back to now in 2023, I researched in a studio in Berlin and shared two variations at Backstein Boot. In one attempt, I redid the “Origins of a Woman” piece trying to be the body from 2018 that first danced this piece. In a second variation, I redid the dance as my body is now. In dance and psychosomatic analyses, the movements that emerge would reveal different themes, archetypes, and patterns. As the movements are similar in redoing a piece, I reflected on the different senses of the way that body moves. This may be challenging to view in detail from the static film shots yet hopefully some nuances can be felt. I also reflected on my inner emotions. For example, looking at 2018, there is a meekness that was both feigned in the character work and real as I had a different meditation and fasting practice. Trying this now in 2023, the meekness was very disgusting to me as I had both a sympathy and a lot more strength in my body. I had a new sense of trickery, righteousness, and possibly less softness. My physicality as well as my relations to gender and sexuality have also been changing over the years. Subservience, vengeance, forgiveness, defense, righteousness, some kind of love for the perpetrator, and relationality are themes in this performance that have been living in my life since. There is no linear trajectory yet there are differences between 2018 and 2023 in the dance and life, as well as a deepening of the possibilities for these qualities in the body. Whew… This is a very, very specific look, a mix of some deep navel-gazing and an attempt to reveal something new for others, possibly just the hints at the value of the past, present, and future dancing together…&nbsp; the connections between the personal, relational, and what happens in the world… the trajectory of art into life, and life into AHHHHHRRRRTTTTT. Special thanks to: Film / music from various projects and moments from studio clips / on gazing / Origins of a Woman / a living archive / Chrysalis by Nanda Agostino / Rooted by Apricot Music by Institute for Creative Dying / Crystal Quartez / Phonoschrank / Summer the Four Seasons Vivaldi / Fonss / Glitchedtones Film by Isabelle Schmitz / TJ Thompson / Jos McKainFilm Photography by Joey Binhammer Rehearsal support at Theaterhaus Mitte, Pionierprobe Prenzlauer Promenade, Backstein Boot part ii: Resources for the Butoh-Curious writing + resources about butoh dance with books, articles,&nbsp; online tutorials, and classes link to blog on Medium part iii: Prototypes for butoh scores through listening Butoh dance uses poetic language and somatic instructions to inspire the body to move.&nbsp;This is from a different project where I researched the somatic memories of another dancer on the theme of [transforming] violence, and with another writer and musician, created this audio experience journey for the listeners to move and listen as well. [1 hour of poetic, musical, and somatic experience]https://soundcloud.com/dancetotheedge/chorus-of-the-oppressed-preview-vocals-for-dancing-being-in-time-performance Min Yoon · dancing with violence (Preview / a participatory audio dance performance) This is an audio experience [/ experiment] of a butoh dance element from an older performance, Origins of a Woman (the piece that the above video is also centered around). I hope it brings a different kind of somatic listening and experiencing than watching. The audio deals with the topic of boundaries. [under 3 minutes]https://soundcloud.com/dancetotheedge/riding-and-being-ridden &nbsp;Min Yoon · riding and being ridden (Preview / experimental dance score) ___ Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. <img width="245" height="100" width_o="245" height_o="100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d97bfe144d697ff8fc7a2133ed05278f28a0425c3990d1f7af532de3c9396a81/BKM_Web_de.gif" data-mid="169058043" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/245/i/d97bfe144d697ff8fc7a2133ed05278f28a0425c3990d1f7af532de3c9396a81/BKM_Web_de.gif" /><img width="1323" height="1295" width_o="1323" height_o="1295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/129c04b26b289338f632dd702451507009d0de726f9fda9b71d31fad762c3e77/BKM_Neustart_Kultur_Wortmarke_pos_RGB_RZ.jpg" data-mid="169058725" border="0" data-scale="14" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/129c04b26b289338f632dd702451507009d0de726f9fda9b71d31fad762c3e77/BKM_Neustart_Kultur_Wortmarke_pos_RGB_RZ.jpg" /><img width="709" height="355" width_o="709" height_o="355" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40bde6635e8131d089e1d3762ffc4cfccf3ba771a53b054beae369d7ad7052ed/dtdlogodrgb.png" data-mid="169058871" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/709/i/40bde6635e8131d089e1d3762ffc4cfccf3ba771a53b054beae369d7ad7052ed/dtdlogodrgb.png" /> ___ https://dancetotheedge.com/everyday-feast Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:31:58 +0000 dancetotheedge https://dancetotheedge.com/everyday-feast Everyday Feast, October 2019, Butoh Ritual Performance with Storytelling “Everyday Feast” is a butoh ritual dance on themes of addiction and love.&nbsp; based on live and recorded stories of addiction from artists and storytellers of SF Bay Area and Moscow. The latter part of the evening opened up to live stories from the audience. Music by Phonoschrank //&nbsp;Stories by Danielle Brandon, Idexa Stern, Justin Ebrahemi, Rick Darnell, &amp; Zen //&nbsp;Dance by Min Yoon &amp; Moris Shakaia How does the body speak what dwells within us, under the control of our addictions? How do we relate to one another through moments of clawing for something, or our lives? Can we find new gestures and spaces in coping? Beyond personal expression, how do our collective stories reflect questions that our experiences, effects, and journeys of addictions raise, and how this may transpose to the social issues, capitalist colonialism, and environmental interconnectedness we live. Socially-accepted addictions are with us everyday from sugar to work, sex, tech, progress, escape… We research where our bodies, words, energy, and relations hold memories, release, habits, instincts, and patterns, and look for something new - between the bodies,&nbsp;between the storyteller and dancer, between performer and audience, and between the selves. clips from solo piece on addictions to love in the era of dystopic porn ___