Suddenly Dance Theatre presents
GREEN DANCE
A Workshop with South Korea's HOYEON KIM
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Venue: TBA
Time: 9am - 12:30pm
Duration: 3.5 hrs
Open to all ages
Free!
Hoyeon Kim's workshop starts in the dance studio and moves outside, combining improvisation and 'plogging' - through fun exercises designed to pick up trash while on-the-move.
"I'm not sure if I can change the world with dancing yet, but I can change wherever I dance." - Hoyeon Kim
GREEN DANCE is a 'instant dance' originally conceived and achieved in the mountains near Seoul. With a small belief that 'we all can do something for the earth' this workshop involves a spirit of volunteerism and environmentalism through embodied cleanup activities to explore social values with dance.
The workshop is inspired by the Swedish Plogging which is a combination of jogging with picking up litter, merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog).
FREE - (sign up required)
Photo of Hoyeon Kim
Biography:
HOYEON KIM is a dance artist living in Seoul, South Korea. He has collaborated with Suddenly Dance Theatre for 9 years, showing his own works with Dab Dance Project in Victoria and Vancouver, as well as creating dance-films LUCKY MAYBE (Episodes 1-6) and We Are Diamonds with director David Ferguson. Hoyeon is a dancer and choreographer educated at Yongin University and Korea National University. He performed in Aakash Odedra Company in England and ‘Theatre of Operations' choreographed by Pierre Rigal from compagnie dernière minute in France. His work has been performed at Bulgaria One Dance Week Festival, Bulgaria Atom Theater and Seoul International Choreography Festival. In 2016, he formed Dab Dance Project with Jungha Lim to tour their original works. This has led to collaboration with international artists such as Hwa Wei-An (Malaysia) and David Ferguson (Canada). He is an associate artist of Canada’s Suddenly Dance Theatre exploring dance-on-film.
Since 2020 our Fountain of Youth Program has been recharged with the support of the CRD Arts Development, the Victoria Foundation; special donor Mauricio A. Garcia Barrera; and program donors Maleea Acker, Samuel Binette, Marion Ehrenberg, Ken Flett, Jodie Gawryluk, Janine Hannis, Valerie Lannon, Bonnie Leadbeater, Dr. Stephen Lindsay, Shea Lowry, Drew Mildon, Robert Milne, Theone Paterson, Michael Shamata, Jeany Shipley, Carolina Stratievsky, Jennifer Wise. In 2023/2024 further support from Maleea Acker, Eric Grace, Janine Hannis, Drew Mildon and Jennifer Wise has allowed us to continue.
Our current 2024 program has been generously supported by
the ROSHAN VICKERY FUND
through the Victoria Foundation.
THE HARWEG FOUNDATION
