"gamin’s Metamorphose" New York Premiere in 2013 DUMBO Dance Festival

gamin’s Metamorphose

New York Premiere in 2013 DUMBO Dance Festival

Live Music by gamin

Choreography by Jee Yun Hong

Free Admission!!

Friday, September 27 at 8:00PM

Saturday, September 28 at 6:00PM

John Ryan Theater (WHITE WAVE Dance Company)

25 Jay St. #100, Brooklyn, NY 11201

“If the presence of one thing is conjured up with a completely different look,

is this appearance a mixture of two simple things?” The evolution of the project started from this thought. This work analyzes the structure of music and is transformed by the movements of the human body, giving the piece a completely new look and sound.

Korean-based musician, gamin, will perform Metamorphose, an interdisciplinary artwork that combines sounds and movements, on Friday, September 27 at 8:00pm and Saturday, September 28 at 6:00pm in the 2013 Dumbo Dance Festival. This is a multi-disciplinary and experimental performance that incorporates many different genres such as music, dance, composition, direction, lighting, sounds, and visual arts, without being limited to one genre. In this piece, gamin will play diverse Korean instruments including the piri, a Korean double-reed instrument used in both the folk and classical court music of Korea. This work premiered at Nowon Culture and Art Center in Korea in 2010 with support from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. gamin performed a revitalization in June 2013 in Seoul, Korea and plans to perform a new version of Metamorphose to New York. This reformed version is expected to showcase more variety of dance and music than in the earlier work. gamin is currently developing more changes for future shows around world.

This performance features the music of Ligeti’s Piano Etudes Fem and movement that is made by visual signs interpreting the music. In this piece, the music indicates the movements the dancer makes, creating a synthesis between sound and dance. The nature and form of the music and dance is intact, but this work shows the process by which the performance is transformed. This is like the phenomenon in nature; the caterpillar will gradually transform from a larva and eventually, metamorphose into a butterfly. In the show, the music is analyzed so that the sounds are integrated into the joints and gesture of the body. This performance will show the various appearances of a musician and dancer through a process of communication by featuring the correlation of sound and movement, and then developing and changing sound into gesture.

Metamorphose was originally created and produced by the artist, Hyo Jee Kang. Ms. Kang has been working with the theme of communication and dialogue between oneself and others, while at the same time, has been pushing the boundaries of music and movement, symbols, text, light and visual arts, as well as media.

Tickets & Contact Information

Tickets: Free Admission ( On the basis of first come, first served) Contact: Company manager email:events@kpacnyc.org

Host company: WHITE WAVE Dance Company:

Email: info@whitewavedance.com / Call: (718) 855-8822

Website: http://www.whitewavedance.com