dancing-being-in-time, Min Yoon’s SOLO Performance
Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 7 PM
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“Not for the attention-seeking economy”, a slow evolution over the span of years is compressed into this single hour. It enters the body as a living archive of pain: What impulses have been inherited, imposed, or reclaimed? How is pain danced in the same body across time?

The voice amplifies and permeates the silent screams of the body into sonic spells, into an opening. Like looking into the eyes of someone who understands, across memories, across invisible barriers of the body, beneath the skin — where impulses will not remain silent.

Motion stretches and fractures, tracing the invisible weight of memory, the tension between forgetting and remembering. Between presence and absence, between what is seen and what is felt, Dancing-Being-in-Time invites the audience into a space where movement and sound reveal what words cannot—where experience unfolds not in narrative, but in the textures of time itself.

This dance research and performance is supported by Tanzmit Festival, DIS-TANZ SOLO Funding – Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Germany.

ABOUT MIN YOON
With post/butoh dance, vocals, and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic performances and experimental moments to create moments of heightened complex / relational emotions, permission to go there, go deep, and look for what is emerging now. Min explores difficult truths beyond language, and against inherited social knowledge, through researching and dancing with unintentional/subconscious movements within impulsive improvisation, physicality, and stillness.

“Not for the attention-seeking economy,” Min’s butoh+ experimental dance and vocal works process what feels more subconscious and unknown in being human such as around pain and violence, to grieve, reveal nuanced truths around the depths of emotions, experiences, and perspectives, and look for new expressions. Recent works switch between researching violence with their own body and the bodies of others. Their current solo work dancing-being-in-time depicts loops of movements, vocal tremors, and memories, with the body as an archive of pain, states, and transformation. In dancing with violence, they researched the bodily memories of violence of another dancer to create an auditory theater piece that invites the listeners to move and lightly embody the experiences poetically. In choreographic experiments, they question what are the images, imaginations, and group archetypes we need for our times, how bodies respond and move together unintentionally in groups, and how we may find instinctual ways to move together beyond how our bodies were trained.

Min describes their method as Butoh / post/butoh / Butoh, as they bring together methods of butoh dance with somatics and conflict studies, and social questions. Min continues to dance with the question of whether butoh dance is mimicking patterns of oppression (+ what attracts us to certain art and media), and… what is the dance needed today.

Min’s performances and social artworks have been funded by NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (npn) in Germany, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, The City of Oakland, The Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, with other artist residencies and grants. Min has also been a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U Berlin) and an artcorps scholar at the Tamalpa Institute founded by Daria and Anna Halprin.

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