If you’re keen on exploring the intersection of martial arts and dance, you’re in luck. It’s coming to NYUAD from the 28-29 November.
Appeal to both fans of sport and dance at the fascinating presentation in NYUAD’s Red Theater Judo and Balance & Imbalance. The back to back performances will be presented by the critically acclaimed, martial arts influenced Bereishit Dance Company, and promise a presentation that explores Korean culture and grace through rhythm.
Judo examines pattern and variables that are inspired by the movements of judo. Aggression, the human instinct, stays inside of us and continuously needs an exit. Sports have been developed as an outlet to help humans eliminate violent urges. This performance embodies symbolic meaning of sports using the harmoniousvehicles of rhythm, movements, and space. Judo’s choreography, which is performed on an actual stadium mat, uses various movements of sport to draw in the audience, and bring them closer to the tension, catharsis, and immersive feeling of the sport.
Balance & Imbalance examines primal body movements and sounds that are the oldest and most basic tools for communication between human beings. Focused on such body movements and sounds, Bereishit dance opens channels of communication with others. In this work, accompanied by a live pansori (Korean shamanistic music) ensemble, Bereishit examines both the sound made by the body, and the movements made from the sound. Our bodies, which perceives us and others, make sounds, and in so doing a relationship with others is expanded by repeating balance and imbalance. In the moment, there is excitement created by the body movements and sounds.
28-29 November 2018 at 8pm, The Red Theater, The Arts Center, at NYU Abu Dhabi
