Dancers and musicians create 'Killing Hierarchy' with no set choreography

A groundbreaking dance performance, 'Killing Hierarchy,' is set to challenge audience and performer boundaries at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul. Choreographer Kim Gwan-ji aims to create an experience that subverts hierarchy and order. The performance's defining characteristic is its complete lack of a predetermined script. For 70 minutes, eight dancers and nine musicians will create the performance through improvisation, ensuring that each showing is entirely unique.

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I wanted to create an experience that subverts hierarchy and order.

The audience becomes an integral part of the performance. Dancers will approach the audience, making eye contact, speaking, and even directing movement with calls like "Go over there!" Lasers will cut across the seating area, and foil distributed to the audience will reflect light, merging the stage and the audience space into a single environment.

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There is no 'right answer' in the performance.

Kim Gwan-ji noted the contrast with today's content-saturated world, where repetition is common on platforms like YouTube and Netflix. He suggested that the unpredictable nature of real-life events, like a chance street fight, holds more inherent interest. 'Killing Hierarchy' seeks to capture that spontaneous engagement, offering a live, unrepeatable artistic encounter.

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In an era overflowing with content that is repeatedly played, like YouTube or Netflix, watching a street fight that happens by chance on the street is more interesting because it is...