Yaras

■Award

PRIZE of AWARD "Best Dance of Work" for the entire year of 2024 from 'The Korean Association of Dance Critics and Researchers'.

■Critics

"Strong freshness, perfect movement implementation and choreography, Artificial intelligence and future anthropological discourse": (SeongEun Jang - Goodstage, Feb. 2024)

"Posthumans depicted by bodies out of control": (Song Jun-ho - Dance Post Korea, Feb. 2024)

"Future Race Noir, The stunning display of 10 Performers's ability to throw themselves Into Cultural Taboos": (jihyun Lee - dance critic, Feb. 2024)

"A roaring gesture that broke through oppression... The audience became an observer": (Seung-hee Ko - Herald Economy Reporter, Feb. 2024)

"A Brilliant Mise-en-scène Production": (Jeongmin Sim - dance forum Magazine, Jan. 2025)

"The work clearly reveals its thematic consciousness through a sensory production that contrasts controllable technological devices with uncontrolled subjective human images. It is a masterpiece that stimulates the audience's gaze and thoughts through an experimental format and evokes the meaning of apocalyptic humanism in the age of artificial intelligence.": (The Korean Association of Dance Critics and Researchers, The preview article, Jan. 2025)

■Credit

Artistic Director: Hunmok Jung

Performer: Dajeong Yoo, Seungkwan Yang, Mijeong Kwon, Somi Bae, Myungin Yoon, Minuk Choi, Ji-yoon Lee, Jin wook Han, Jeong Bin Seo

Stage Designer&Props: Il kyoung Jo

Stage Manager: In-sung Kim

Light Designer: Jaeeok Kim

Costume: Kyung-sul BaeVideo

projection Design: VRUNCHPoster Design: Hyeonjeong Yeo

Photographer: Sang Hoon Ok

Sound Editing: Joo-won Seo

Sound Manager: Young-mo Nam

Producer: Sin Ae Park

Project Manager: Heeji Seo

Presented by Arts Council KoreaSponsored by Arko Selection

Organized by JUMOK Dance Theater

Trailer Editing: Kenneth Rawlinson

The work <Yaras> was selected as the New Work (Dance) of the Year category by the Arts Council of Korea and was performed in February 2024. <Yara> is a group of dancers with different body defects, deformations, advanced bodies, and objects that have not been tried on stage based on transhumanism, presenting the ultimate purpose of humans and a humanistic direction for the future. It is a modern dance piece with a ‘convergence’ tendency. <Yaras> questions the direction of humanities in the coming future. The piece introduces a new paradigm by utilizing future-oriented objects, creating a visually powerful and unique worldview on stage. This work represented the possibility of developing a new audience, and expand the base and scope of its activities by creating opportunities for continuous international distribution as well as domestically through choreography utilizing international sensibilities and the dancers' high artistic skills.