Seminar - Choreographic Humour: Korean-British Connections and Divergences
A Festival of Korean Dance 2025
About Seminar - Choreographic Humour: Korean-British Connections and Divergences
How does humour function in contemporary choreography? What comic affinities might there be between Korean and British choreographers, and how do their approaches differ?
This seminar brings together artists featured in A Festival of Korean Dancein recent years with UK-based artists affiliated with The Place, for a discussion around dance's potential to transform the conventions of humour in new and innovative ways. Join us for a cross-cultural analysis hosted by Dr Lise Uytterhoeven, Director of Dance Studies at The Place and featuring Melancholy Dance's Cheol-in Jeong, Min-sun Choi and Jin-an Kang from Choi x Kang Project, and director and choreographer Frauke Requardt.
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About Dr Lise Uytterhoeven
Dr Lise Uytterhoeven is Director of Dance Studies at The Place, London Contemporary Dance School. She holds a BA Dance Education from CODARTS (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and an MA (Distinction) Dance Studies and PhD from University of Surrey, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her monographSidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Dramaturgy and Engaged Spectatorship is published by Palgrave Macmillan in the New World Choreographies series. She has published in Contemporary Theatre Review, Research in Dance Education, The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies (ed. Sherril Dodds), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet (ed. Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel & Jill Nunes Jensen, forthcoming) and The Ethics of Art (ed. Guy Cools & Pascal Gielen).
Her co-authored study guideWhat Moves You? Shaping your dissertation in dance (2017) is published by Routledge.
Lise is the Chair of the Society for Dance Research and a member of the Associate Board of Dance Research.
About Cheol-in Jeong
Choreographer Cheol-in Jeong founded Melancholy Dance Company in 2016. Their works Flight, 0g, Overmensch, Your Sign, Mobility, and Non-Protection take human life as the theme and explore human history and phenomena through variations of speed, rhythm and weight.
About Min-sun Choi and Jin-an Kang
Choreographers Min-sun Choi and Jin-an Kang founded Choi x Kang Project in 2015. The project looks for intuitive ways to generate movement and focus on the process of connecting with the body through multidisciplinary experiments and external devices. They have been expanding their own territory through participation in multidisciplinary projects, not only in the field of dance but also through collaborations with artists from other fields such as literature, visual art and film. Through these collaborations with other genres, the group seeks to find a way out of the gap that occurs when the characteristics of each medium collide, and therefore to escape from traditional methods.
Choi x Kang won the Best Innovation in Performance Award at the 2024 Stockholm Fringe Festival and the Jury Prize at the 18th Yokahama Dance Collection, a choreography competition in Japan.
About Frauke Requardt
Frauke Requardt trained in Germany, New York and London. As well as directing dance and performance, she has also worked as one of Lea Anderson’s Cholmondeleys. Frauke was a Work Place artist at The Place and is now an Affiliate Artist. Previous work includes Jammy Dodgers, a fantastical world, with a rolling line up of bands from the London contemporary Jazz scene; the Lynch-esque Roadkill Cafe; and Pequenas Delicias, an absurdist site-specific piece; Episode premiered at The Place (June 2011); Mothers (2017), an anarchic response to her experience of being a new parent; and Dadderrs(2019 - 2021) with Daniel Oliver. Current projects include The Anatomy of Survival (working title) with writer Vivienne Franzman.