* Time: Oct 22(Thu) ~ Oct 23(Fri) 20:00 
   * Venue: Daehangno Arts Theater Small Hall
   * Ticket Price: 5,000won
   * You can buy thickets at a ticket box of the each venue on the day of  a performance.
 
 The Seoul Dance Collection sponsored by SPAF has been organized to provide young dancers with an exciting opportunity to extend their sphere of artistic expression in the world. SPAF2009 celebrates its eighth year from October 13 until November 21, 2009. Since its inception, the festival has provided a program and venue for performance artists from all over the world to meet and exchange creative ideas and endeavors. Based on the success of last year’s inaugural Seoul Dance Collection, The 3rd Seoul Dance Collection will exhibit up and coming dancers from Korea and abroad and promote the many possibilities for greater intercultural collaboration and overseas performances.
 
Among 54 participants – 52 Korean, 2 Overseas -, 10 teams who have passed the initial screening will take part in the Main Event.
The winner of the Grand Prize will be provided with full travel expenses and hotel accommodation at worldwide Performing Arts Festival for one week. Runner-ups will be given the opportunity to participate in SPAF2010.  
Through The Seoul Dance Collection, SPAF hopes to spotlight the potential of the next generation of dancers and to offer a new vision of the world through these young and talented dancers.   
 

Oct 22(Thu) 20:00
#1

   Hyung-Woo Lee, Ji-Hee Kim
   Junkyard
   15min
   Performer_ Hyung-Woo Lee, Ji-Hee Kim
 
‘What the hell do you use this for…’
‘A human being equals a thing’?
‘Anything that has served its end… becomes useless junk’ 

‘Any person with no role to perform equals useless junk’
 .
A role?
 .
A person?
There are two pieces of junk in the junkyard.
There are two persons of no use in the junkyard.

#2

  Young-Sun Kong, Hyo-Seon Heo
  Knocking about the world
  15min
  Performer_ Young-Sun Kong, Seong-Hyeon Park, Hyo-Seon Heo
 
The ant, the black dot that finally gathers something to eat after searching the entire earth. Once it finds food after   much searching, it returns home carrying the heavy load on its back. If you have ever seen how fast an ant can scurry along in search of food, you will also know that the process of searching is nothing in comparison to the delivery of food.

#3

  Sung-Yool Park, Suk-Jung Kim, Jae-Un Choi
  Accompanying
  14min
  Performer_ Sung-Yool Park, Suk-Jung Kim, Jae-Un Choi
 
I tread along my own road.
I go along with someone.
While harboring respective sunflowers in our hearts…
 

#4

  Sang-Hun Lee
  In the Desert
  15min
  Performer_ Sang-Hun Lee, Sang-Yeol Choi, Hae-Young Seo

The desert in this piece is connected to the dry land or desert in our hearts.
Our dry way of looking at the weak and physically disabled… Our endless sense of egotism…
We wish to express a mode of living in such a desert.
In the desert, he is so lonely that
Sometimes, he finds himself walking backwards.
Just so that he can look at his own footprints in front of him.
Run….
Even if the barrenness of the desert is about to engulf you
More than the dryness of the desert, the energy in your heart always remains there.
Even if you are bone dry by thirst and even if an oasis is not there to quench your thirst
All that dryness and all those mountains of sand in the desert are there to receive the tracks you have made. 
 

#5

  Jae-Young Lee
  Babel
  14min
  Performer_ Jae-Young Lee, Ji-Hye kim
 
The story of the Babel Tower that appears in Genesis. In the beginning, all humans shared the same language. But the endless greed of humans ultimately led them to build a tower to reach the skies. In due course, God became angered and decided to break up the human language into several different ones. Humans became distrustful of each other, fought amongst themselves and the discord of language was born. The tower was dismantled and language barriers were established. 
This story attempts to portray the truth behind misunderstanding and actions that cause rifts among humans.
Human languages led to the birth of falseness, though their actions remained sincere. 
I’d rather hold you tight than
Express my mind in the sweetest of all words.

 

Oct 23(Fri) 8:00pm
#1

  Shin, Hye-jin
  The Vision in Motion
  13min
  Performer_ Bo-Ram Kim, Hyang-Choon Kim, Hye-Jin Shin
 
In search of something.
Wishing to find out what makes me move, not how I move.
Eyes dart around, searching the space, and probing every nook and cranny of the body.
Where the eyes rest, something is discovered. We can discuss the findings in this space via the body.
Visions collide, relations are formed and they move together.
They go in search of something for the sake of motion.
If we succeed in finding that, then it is our turn to move.  
 
#2

  Kyung-Hwa Hong
  The Eye of the Other
  15min
  Performer_ Kyung-Hwa Hong, Myung-Hoon Park, Shin-ae Han
 
 Based on the play, “The Human”, by Bernard Werber, this piece is about a man and a woman who are caught inside a glass jail on a planet after the demise of Earth. The crisis of existence after the final destruction of Earth, the lack of self-identity, a sense of emptiness from the loss of living space, uncertainty about the external world, and the lack of love, the ebb and flow of human emotion-all of this is expressed with humor and wit using the languages of the body and drama.
  Human beings have long kept animals and cattle inside confined spaces, fed them when necessary and even tortured and abused them at times- finally, killing them when they were of no further use. In the Earth’s final moments, an alien presence is keeping humans like cattle. They are human guinea pigs. Can they keep the human race alive? Or not? Can they create a new world of Adam and Eve? The trial starts now. 
 
#3

  So-Young Lee
  Bang Bang
  17min
  Performer_ Ho-Kyoung Im, So-Young Lee
 
We tend to take responsibility for almost everything from encountering someone to separating from someone, from what we achieve or not, what we acquire or not.
Individual capability allows you to control what is happening to you. Theoretically speaking, of course. But at times, one is forced to confront powerlessness in the face of one’s life.
Perhaps there is such a thing as a cycle of destiny.
The cycle changes its course over time so that we find ourselves confronted by someone or something to the extent that our courses collide and eventually separate. Changes in the cycles of destiny affect the personal state and that personal state, in turn, affects the cycle of events.
Changes in the state and cycles have a regular cycle and the regularity changes the flow of things.
Such thoughts are embedded in this piece. The point is to materialize the ideas into codes of movement (a circle- cycle, changes of form, to go around- a cycle, changes in state). 
 
#4

  Young-Ho Kwon
  The door
  12min
  Performer_ Min-Kyoung Kim, Young-Hun Kim, Su-Hee Jeon

A woman is walking along the road. The road appears to be wavering as if she is drunk. An array of doors springs up floating along the road.
Everybody says that
The door to employment is narrow.
The door. We run after doors, we are harangued by doors and we are struck by doors. All too often, we look at doors that engulf us.
The door in this piece is not limited to the ordinary door that connects the bedroom and the living area.
An unlimited number of surfaces appear in our space when we go from one place to another.
These surfaces are, for me, invisible doors that separate spaces.
 
#5

  Moa Son
  Dust Elephant
  15min
  Performer_ Moa Son, Dong-Uk Kim
 
Dust particles and elephants coexist in this world full of material and life, and the most elevated ideal of humans is the dust elephant.  Discover the disparity between suppressive reality and the free ideal.