Bari Kim is a dance artist, improviser, choreographer based in Jeju, Seoul in Korea and travels various places.
She is performing/creating in a state of improvisation, exploring the vitality of time and space, the relationship between dance and music, the transparent body, modernity based on traditionality, movement as embodied nature.
Her focus of dance is listening. She believes that through listening, dance becomes dance itself, music becomes music itself which allows all the possibilities for the very moments arises, resonates and expresses. And poems in the space started to be written and read. Her artistic theme/root is Poong-gyung and GAMU which is Every being dances and sings by itself. She keeps learning dance and music from nature, Buddhism philosophy, Asian philosophy and Korean traditional medical philosophy. She has been performing solo, as well as collaborating with various dancers and musicians across different spaces in Korea, Europe and Asia such as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Hungary, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Ireland and Canada. She has participated in various international residencies, including Research into the Unknown, and has toured with various projects-Recently, she completed a European tour for the improvisational performance project INTERSOUNDANCE in
four countries. She received Best Dance award 2020 from Korean dance critics association.
She studied French literature(B.A.) in Konkuk Univ. and choreography(M.F.A.) in Korean National University of Arts. She is also certified somatic movement educator(SME) of Body-Mind Centering®(BMC) and completed Practitioner of BMC.
She studied with beautiful dance-movement artist/teachers, Nancy stark smith, Mike Vargas, Kurt koegel, Katie duck, Thomas Kampe, Ted stoffer, Gizegorz ziolkowisky, Sinja Hong, Jeongho Nam, Heekyung Blanz Kim, Eunsuk Jo, Joerg Hassmann , Stephanie Maher, Peter Pleyer, Eszter Gal, Jess Curtis, Keith Hennesy, Andrew Morrish, Rosalind Crisp, Daniel lepkoff, Julyen Hamilton, LisaNelson, Nina Martin, Walburga Glatz, Maryska Bigos, Bob Lehnberg, Jens Johannsen, Friederike Troscher, Bonnie Bainbridge.
Contact Improvisation Festival - Intensive
DANCE OF INTERBEING
We will experience our body as a continuous transforming-circulating-meeting-communicating process related to inner and outer environment.
Listening will be the door to experience ‘inter-being’ which is the nature of the universe. Contact improvisation is the great tool, map and state to be tuned to discover this inter-related-body which is dance of interbeing. We will dive into the active, physical and subtle listening state together with questions and curiosities.
When we listen fully, everything/every moments around and within us starts to reveal their music, dance and poem. we will discover what is happening and being created as an interconnected momentary body thourgh CI.
“Listening with the Whole Body” into a deeper inquiry of the textures, attitudes, and methodologies of in-betweenness, inter-being and interbody. This workshop explores the dance that arises between things with relationships – between events,landscapes, songs, and poems. It is a dance of contact improvisation where the body becomes the very space between, inviting participants into a process of attentive reading, deep listening, and embodied inquiry.
The human body itself is a living ecology-a dynamic confluence of elements, states, and flows. Within his living system, innumerable dimensions of betweenness emerge. Through Contact Improvisation, participants will engage in a rigorous and experiential investigation of these inter-relational dynamics-between bodies, within bodies, and across space and time.
This workshop invites dancers to immerse themselves in a journey of relational embodiment, where the individual self recedes, allowing the fullness of the in-between to come into presence through movement. We will experience that our dancing bodies are the continuously changing, growing and resonating with past and future supported by the safe fluid environment. Body as forest which embraces all the different living creatures such as all the cells, different systems,
organs will be investigated.
Relationship between inner and outer spaces, silence and dynamics, being filled and being emptied, listening and expressing, boundaries and beyond boundaries, centering and no-centering, rhythmic play through contemplativeness and playfulness will be researched together.
Touch, voice, somatic approach, Body-Mind Centering, Poong-gyung, GAMU, improvisation dance, contact, play, including solo research, partnering, writing, group work will be shared and played duriNg the workshop. Let’s dance together not to forget we are born to dance!
Areas of Inquiry Include:
Connection to the feet, Center-to-center relationship, Integration of head and tail, Relationships within structural axes, Fluid water body, The specificity and reciprocity of touch, The spatial-temporal dynamics of calling and being called, Circulation between form and flow, The interrelationship between dance and music, Dance as poetic writing and reading,
The potential to fully inhabit every moment and space, Sensory interstices, Simultaneity of stillness and dynamism, Spectrum between perception and action, The spatial-temporal dimensions of contact, Rooting and growing.