This is an Audio Described Introduction to Becoming-dancer: Trio A Revisited, part 1 a short dance film of just over 7 minutes. Becoming-dancer is created and directed by Sinae Rha and Kisub Choi.
My name is Emma-Jane McHenry and I will be voicing the Audio Description, this introduction will take a few minutes to listen to.
Becoming-dancer
If dance is open to all movement, is all movement open to every bodies? When every movement became dance, how did we imagine the body dancing it? Now it is not the movement but the body that has to be questioned in or-der to examine the notion of dance.
Wonyoung and Kisub revisit Yvonne Rainer's Trio A. Trio A is a piece by American choreographer Yvonne Rainer and it premiered in 1966 at the Judson ChurchTheater in New York. Trio A consists of neutral movements from daily life such as spinning the arm or shaking the feet. These movements neither mean nor express anything but manifest the equality of the movement that anyall movement can become a dance. In this piece, Yvonne Rainer's original choreography is interpreted into a duet between a dancer with wheelchair and a dancer without. Becoming-dancer was premiered in 2020 in Seoul, and this is a film version of some part of the piece.
About Wonyoung Kim X Project YYIN
Wonyoung Kim is a lawyer, author of bestselling books and actor who made a number of stage appearances in his wheelchair. As a lawyer he acknowledges the institution of juridical enforcement, the apparatus that makes the actual difference in the world and secure the life of the disabled more livable. As an artist, however, he has been deeply concerned with the fact that there is a certain crucial aspect of being which defies any kind of regulation: the body.
Wonyoung Kim is a male performer, who performs in his wheelchair.
Project YYIN is an artist collective based in Seoul, South Korea consisting of choreographer and theatre director Sinae Rha and choreographer/dancer Kisub Choi.They have been working on the relationship between dance and choreography, especially on the paradox that the “possibility” of contemporary choreography exists as the impossibility of the choreography.
The two dancers Wonyoung Kim and Kisub Choi are of a similar age, both are male. Wonyoung has short black hair and is a dancer who performs in his wheelchair. Kisub also has black hair slightly longer than Wonyoung’s and tied in a short loose bun at the nape of his neck, he has a facial hair. They both wear pale grey long sleeved tops with the sleeves rolled up revealing black tops underneath, black soft trousers, clack socks and black and white trainers.
To begin with, Wonyoung Kim, Kisub Choi are both in the white space, one behind the other. They look like they are on a flat surface, no definite floor and back wall. Both are still, Wonyang in his wheel chair on the right, Kisub standing on the left.