South Korea’s Melancholy Dance Company to bring two performances to Bengaluru on January 25

The 12th Attakkalari India Biennial volition contiguous Your Symptoms, and Flight, by Melancholy Dance Company from South Korea arsenic portion of BLR Hubba and Attakkalari India Biennial 2025-26. The treble bill, which marks the finale of the festival, is being presented successful India for the archetypal time.

Speaking to The Hindu, Jeong Cheol In, laminitis and manager of South Korean Melancholy Dance Company, says adjacent though immoderate of the dancers from the squad person performed successful India before, it volition beryllium the archetypal clip Flight and Your Symptoms are being presented to an Indian audience. Jeong spoke with the assistance of an autarkic shaper and translator Jin who travelled to India from Seoul.

Speaking connected the telephone from the Indira Gandhi International Airport, earlier boarding the connecting formation to Bengaluru, Jeong says his choreography articulates the impulse to emergence beyond carnal and intelligence limitations.

According to him, Flight looks astatine moments of exhaustion, illness and a gradual enactment of moving towards one’s aspirations. He says done leaps and suspended gestures, the 2 dancer-piece explores quality emotions that transcend countries and borders. “One tin lone execute occurrence erstwhile determination person been failures. Flight was calved from this thought and I person portrayed it with movements of rising and falling.”

Jeong, who made his choreographic debut successful 2014 has an attack rooted successful a heavy probe of physicality. He is the main choreographer and 1 of the performers successful some the creation pieces. Through a nuanced vocabulary of movement, helium says, helium examines the affectional and intelligence layers of the quality condition, that resonate with audiences.

Your Symptomsaddresses individuality situation and societal issues faced by modern individuals. Jeong says, “This enactment intricately expresses the loneliness and affectional unease of modern individuals and, done a heavy exploration of cosmopolitan quality sentiments, it proposes a caller mode of modern signifier expression.” With 7 dancers, each quality emotions are embraced and reflected connected stage.

Jeong founded Melancholy Dance Company successful 2016 arsenic a root of creator inspiration. Through Melancholy, Jeong explores affectional extent and existential themes. He says Attakkalari India Biennial 2025-26 identifies with what helium does astatine Melancholy, since Attakkalari emphasises re-connection, reflection and innovation done dance.

Your Symptoms and Flight volition beryllium presented astatine Prestige Centre for Performing Arts, Bengaluru connected January 25, astatine 7.30 pm. Register for the lawsuit here.