Prof. Sitta Sim will give a presentation and demonstration on modern Korean dance fused with traditional elements:
My dance emulates natural instinct of all living beings whom longing for the primordial light of universe. The light of beginning goes beyond time and space and also brings freedom to body and soul. My choreography tries to create natural movements to set every cells of body free. The movements resonate wave and vibration to the life in the universe.
My dance philosophy is to create a positive energy through natural movement to bring peace of all living beings. Although I am heavily indebted to traditional Korean dance, recently, I devote myself to create whole new movements combining various ethno-choreography. My awakening as an artist came few years back and liberated me from presumptuous arrogance. Rather, I embrace the humility to mother-nature and attentively listen the whisper of light.
After years of trial, I now pursue a harmony between insuperable energy and life potentials through my dance. I truly believe the ultimate goal of my choreography should bring happiness to all living forces. Beyond esoteric achievement in pure art, I offer a therapy to body and soul through many movements that I have invented.
Author Bio
Sitta Hyekyung Sim is a faculty member at Seoul Digital University and the head of Sitta Sim & Dance Company. The artistic point of view of Hyekyung Sim as a director and choreographer, pursuing insuperable energy and potential beyond the tradition and the present times through performances at home and abroad is ultimately aimed at pursuing the life with full of true human happiness and love by exhibiting the message for freedom and peace of the humankind through performance.
Her works mainly adapts the humanity and the nature as subjects and have been evaluated as a fresh storm through her attempt at new choreography of 'Raining on the Dried Earth', her first work of 1994. Her principal works include 'Sun-rising Country', 'Early Riser Can See the Sunrise', 'Jeokmyulbogung' and so on. Her artistic material and techniques have been reflected in her works are being realized through teaching students in college and the performance. The dance comes to us as a shamanism at first, the art and now as the therapy; Hyekyung Sim translates the role of dance to mankind as the therapy becomes a part of human life then brings us the true happiness through both physical and spiritual health.
She has involved in creative activity at home and taken a main role as the ambassador introducing traditional Korean arts and cultures to the world with touring performances in Hawaii, Russia, Taiwan, EU, Japan, Canada and the United States. v
