Shimmering
Yanghee Lee
What is the starting point of this project?
This project finds its origins in a ten-year journey during which I have navigated between rigorous discipline and pure liberation. Trained in Korean traditional dance, I have sought to find my own voice beyond the rigidity of the system, by experimenting with the 1990s rave culture. Shimmering bridges the gap between “learned” and '"felt"' dance, between control and visceral pleasure.
What is its specific feature?
Shimmering blends the disciplined elegance of Shinmuyong, a traditional Korean dance, with the raw pulse of rave club culture. This structural fusion results in an internal transformation within the performers’ own bodies.
Why participate in the Danse élargie competition?
Condensing a 60-minute work into a 10-minute version is not simply a reduction in length, but a choreographic challenge to extract its purest essence. I want to give the audience an intense and striking physical experience.
Yanghee Lee explores the boundary between traditional forms and contemporary archetypes. Shimmering has been selected for the 2025 PAMS Choice, a prestigious award designed to facilitate international touring.
Credits
- CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY
- Yanghee Lee
- MUSIC
- Mang Esilo
- LIGHTNING DESIGN
- Young Jun Kim
- COSTUMES
- Jaden Cho
- REHEARSAL DIRECTOR
- Choi Seung-yoon
ㅤ - WITH
- Yeonhee Cho, Hanna Kang, Seunghyun Kim, Jaeah Lee, Yanghee Lee, Sohee Park
ㅤ - PRODUCTION
- Leeyanghee Studio
- INTERNATIONAL TOURING PRODUCER
- Jiwool YANG
- WITH THE SUPPORT OF
- Centre Culturel Coréen – l’Ambassade de Corée en France
© Kyuho Shim