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PAMS

  • Dance
SSIREUM MODEUN COMPANY
  • 10-14(Wed) 20:00 / 10-15(Thu) 20:00
  • Sogang University Mary Hall
Figures burst out of the painting, transforming the theater into a living ssireum arena charged with breath and cheers. Introduction to the work

SSIREUM expands Korea’s traditional wrestling sport into contemporary performance, bringing together movement, video, archival materials, and audience participation. Inspired by Kim Hong-do’s genre painting Ssireum, the work draws the wrestling ring out of the picture and into the present, bringing it to life through dynamic movement and breath.

Drawing on the movements of actual ssireum, the dancers continuously shift the balance of force as they push, resist, pull, and lean into one another. As the performers face one another, the tension of competition gives way to relationships sustained through mutual dependence and a broader portrait of community.

Historical images, archival records, and interviews intersect with the performers in the ring, while live cameras move between the stage and the audience, generating unpredictable moments. As the audience’s breath and cheers enter the performance, the theater ultimately transforms into a living pan—a shared arena of gathering and play.

Beyond victory and defeat, SSIREUM speaks to how we live today: pushed back yet holding our ground, leaning on one another, and rising again.

MODEUN COMPANY MODEUN COMPANY

MODEUN COMPANY is a performing arts company that connects different times and worlds through the infinite potential of the body, developing distinctive genres and theatrical vocabularies. With the body at the center of its creative practice, the company organically brings together movement, music, narrative, stage mise-en-scène, and technology to create performances with a new sensory language.

Its ongoing projects include a sports series that brings fencing, climbing, and ssireum to the stage, as well as the Modeunization of Tradition series, which moves across traditional music, sport, and food. More recently, the company has expanded its creative territory into the cosmos, quantum science, and literature. Each work develops its own performance language through rigorous preliminary research, interviews, and the creation of a movement methodology specific to the subject.

Moving across theater productions, street arts, site-specific performances, dance films, and media-based work, MODEUN COMPANY demonstrates the possibilities of body-centered performance in any form. The company offers audiences new sensory experiences while continually proposing where the body and the performing arts might go next.

Here is a table explaining the program details. It consists of choreography/direction, audience age, schedule, performance venue, audience interaction, performance time, premiere, admission fee, and language.
Choreography & Director KIM Modeun Structure & Research JEON Ganghee
Cast Kang Seongryong, No Eunhee, Park Seohyun, Kim Dohyun, Kim Hyunjin, Lee Jihye, Lee Eorin Music Director CHOI Hyewon
Media Art LEE Root Stage Design JEONG Seungjun
Lighting Design KIM Gyeongho Stage Manager KIM Jisoo
Sound Director KIM Taeyeon Costume Design CHOI Insook
Video System WILL U ENTERTAINMENT Teaser & Video Archive YEONDU PICTURES
Photographer CHOI Geunwoo Graphic Design LEE Hansu
Planning & Management KIM Hyeyeon Project Coordinators KIM Yeeun, KIM Haeun, CHOI Yujin
International Relations LIM Hyunjin Website
Instagram Instagram Duration 70 min.
Photo introduction