Eun-Me Ahn

The famous custard pie that is the confrontation “between tradition and  modernity”… How many creators have struggled to find the way to  describe what is finally the lot of every artist : one the one hand to  know, understand, integrate what the ancients did; on the other to  forgot them, overcome them and hope to find something new. Quite a vast  program…

On this level, Eun-Me Ahn has found new, unexpected  and exciting ways. This first comes from her itinerary, marked as much  by the learning and exploration of shamanistic tradition as by the many  years spent in New York or a profound friendship with the missed Pina  Bausch (who invited her many times in Wuppertal). Korean and  cosmopolitan, figure of the avant-garde but also choreographer of the  very official 2002 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Daegu and  presented in the most important international festivals, she knows  how to improve the beauties of contrast, mow polka dots, stripes and  flower, how to play with the most pop colors before switching to the  most solemn austerity, how to play with the most subtle shades  of androgyny or une slowness to make trance rhythm burst… 

Educated  at the school of rigor, precise, demanding and of a all Korean  discipline, Eun-Me Ahn is also a daredevil performer, ready for all kind  of piracies. One have seen her jump from the top of a crane to attack a  piano with axe and scissors, rip off herself her fairy dress made of  white ties to distribute the pieces to the audience while performing a  teddybear dance, bury herself with a clown costumes under a rain of  baloons, locked up behind bars in a duet with a chicken, or dressed up  as a mushroom…  But one would be wrong thinking it is provocation. It  is rather the affirmation of a curiosity and a freedom held by work and  style pushed to their most unexpected limits. 

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