Performances that combine both popularity and artistry with its identity as a street arts festival
|Arts|The performance was made with the motif of Sisyphus who is forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill endlessly only for it to roll back down Inspired by Sisyphus’ boulder falling, free fall is applied to various body parts. They try various new things to overcome the limits of motions in extreme conditions. They find the meaning of life from acts which seem meaningless and find themselves in such a process.|Artist|This contemporary dance company creates works of art which can be empathized by different types of audiences, looking at the world as art itself. Under the theme of the lives of human beings, they deliver insightful messages about human affairs and phenomena, changing speed, rhythms, and the feeling of weight.
|Arts|The performance shows human beings who constantly resist frustration and pain and their desire to reach an “ideal” state in a humorous way. In this process, they shed light on the beauty of people challenging to something new and the concern and worry of modern people between dream and reality.|Artist|The performance group is studying how to bring dance closer to the public in enjoyable ways. They are now seeking out ways to explain art and philosophy structurally on the stage and to meet the audience through dance in public spaces.
|Arts|The artist reproduces a traditional circus performance which used to alleviate people’s suffering in a tent theater in traditional markets all over the country. The old-fashioned circus evokes past memories to older people and shows the history to younger people. |Artist|An Jae-geun is a story circus performer and one of the most popular acrobats in Korea. He was born in a tent theater and learned various skills from his parents. He continues the tradition of the now-vanished traditional circus.
|Arts|Let a sonic sphere take you on a journey to a secret location, guiding you by sound alone. Seemingly possessed of its own mind it guides you through familiar and unfamiliar terrain. Can you keep the sphere ‘happy’ by going in the right direction? In return the sphere will lead you on a sonic voyage to the mysterious final destination where you will encounter a meeting of the spheres, a chiming, pulsing web of electronic sound.|Artist|Ray Lee is a Professor of Sound Art at Oxford Brookes University and a multi-award-winning composer and artist. He won a BASCA Composer of the Year award for the highly inventive music theatre project The Ethometric Museum.As an artist he explores his fascinations with the world. He is fascinated by themes that include the emergence of the scientific method, the development of technology, and the way science represents our view of the universe. |Sponsor|
|Arts|Croquiky Brothers present their own unique show by adding an eye-catching circus performance to drawing. You can see the process of drawing, instead of looking at the finished paintings. You will laugh thanks to their comedy during the drawing process and see an unexpected twist when the drawing is finished.|Artist|Croquiky Brothers is a drawing circus team armed with various brilliant ideas. The brothers show the pleasant drawing process. They present their own content both in the streets and theaters. They are putting forth the efforts to develop various content as well as drawing-based performances.
|Arts|Croute is a body language and juggling style created to withstand logistical challenges and adverse weather conditions. Is a site specific performance with multiple bodies, unpredictable juggling, and a ridiculous virtuosity.|Artist|Compagnie Defracto was founded with the ambition of creating a juggling body language. Today, the company aims to invent a structure that will bring together, unite and enhance their three areas of creation (juggling, visual art, and photography) to develop the company's body language and juggling.|Sponsor|
|Arts|This omnibus play was created by The GWANGDAE with An Dae-cheon, one of the best raconteurs, as the center. The Four Dae-cheons "Large Dae-cheon, Small Dae-cheon, Skinny Dae-cheon, and Real Dae-cheon" present this traditional omnibus play.|Artist|The GWANGDAE is a theater company consisting of theater actors and actresses who majored in Korean folk art such as pungmul, talchum, and namsadang nori. They present contemporary creative plays by adding our stories to traditional plays. They are putting forth the efforts to widely promote the enjoyment and charms of Korean traditional plays both at home and abroad.
|Arts|It is about the Asiatic black bear Osami (KM-53) who continuously wandered around to find a desirable place to live. Walking through the forest and following the traces of Osami, the four seasons of Osami are recorded as paintings and in writing. You can complete your own Asiatic black bear book at the end.|Artist|They create performances in which stories pop up outside the theater with pop-up books. They record things that are repetitively spread and folded around us, such as the vanishing memories, urban redevelopment, and the inhabitation and extinction of organisms.
|Arts|This comedy circus is presented by two clowns. Everyone can enjoy the show consisting of skilled juggling, mime, and participatory improv.|Artist|Team Funniest present non-verbal performances encompassing circus, mime, and music. Their team name was formed from the words “funny” and “artist,” referring to humorous artists. Starting with a street performance in 2003, they have been performing mainly in a variety of domestic and overseas performing arts festivals.
|Arts|The performance suggests a peaceful and quiet life through connection between the land, trees, forests, city, and people. The performance is presented at the eye level of the audience, using the trees and forests in the city. They focus on delicate poetic messages and the artistic completion of their motions. They share the beauty of the land, trees, winds, and all living things with the audience. |Artist|Project NALDA is an aerial performance group who ponders over street arts presented in public spaces such as the external walls of buildings, plazas, and streets. They are operating NALDA Studio specializing in vertical dance and flying performances. They are developing their competences in aerial performances through international exchange and cultivation of relevant experts.Compagnie In Vivo is a French vertical dance group. They create performances through personal and poetic study into the relation between the structure and the body of the dancer hanging on a rope, aerial spaces, verticality, etc. They cooperate with Project NADA for Green Intelligence and participate in the performance as dancers and performers.