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Jungwoong Kim
Dance, Interdisciplinary, Immersive, Music, Solo Show
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When we shut out seeing and hearing, what does the body begin to sense, feel and express?
Soseul Dawon, meaning solitude in a quiet garden in Korean, is a movement laboratory that interrogates the paradox of sensory deprivation. When sight and sound are shut out, how does the body respond? Does the body, bereft of those navigational tools, feel diminished, or lose it way? Does it compensate through heightened senses elsewhere? Is somatic sensitivity amplified as a result of quieting distractions channeled through eyes and ears? What can we learn from this investigation about the capacities of our skin, facia, muscles and bones to sense and engage with their environment, and stimulate imagination and expression? What lessons can we derive about communicating with other-abled people?
Through five experimental dialogs stretched over two weekends, a movement researcher and a musician will challenge themselves and one another to retreat from the familiarity of sightedness and hearing, and probe their bodies’ inherent sensory capacity. How does music vibrate the environment for someone who can’t hear it? Might they find sensory availability that sight and sound disrupt? Might they locate a level of exquisite feeling that would make them choose to go blind or deaf for a week, or even a single day?
Studio 34 is a mixed-use yoga/healing/arts spot in West Philly named for the trolley that stops
out front. All year long we host art, comedy, dance, music, poetry and theatre in our gallery,
lounge, and studio spaces, as well as healing services, 30 weekly yoga classes. And a wide array of workshops.
September 18, 2026 8.30pm
4522 Baltimore Ave
General Admission: $25
September 19, 2026 7.30pm
4522 Baltimore Ave
General Admission: $25
September 20, 2026 5.00pm
4522 Baltimore Ave
General Admission: $25
September 25, 2026 8.00pm
4522 Baltimore Ave
General Admission: $25
September 26, 2026 6.30pm
4522 Baltimore Ave
General Admission: $25
About the Artist
Jungwoong Kim is a choreographer, performer, and master educator whose 25-year practice integrates Korean shamanic ritual and Sunmudo martial arts with Western Contact Improvisation. A multi-time Pew Fellowship nominee extensively supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Knight Foundation, and Mid Atlantic Arts, Kim has directed movement for the Philadelphia Theatre Company (CAESAR), InterACT Theatre Company (Seng's Hair Salon), and the Wilma Theater. Highly regarded across international platforms, he frequently leads master workshops and showcases acclaimed solo work at major global festivals.
Juan Castrillón is a multimodal cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker and musician with regional expertise in Türkiye and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His multimodal work and performances dialogue with contemporary debates about decoloniality, heterogenesis, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology.
- Jungwoong Kim Performance and Concept
- Juan Castrillón Sound Design
- Maiko Matsushima Costume and Scenic Consultant
- Morgan Andrews
- David Brick
- Germaine IngramIn Conversation with Co-creators
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This event is appropriate for all ages
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This event does not require masks to be worn
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