• Standing in between

    Union Theatre, London, UK/ Feb. 2025

    Photography by. Michaele Walsh

  • Standing in between

    Union Theatre, London, UK/ Feb. 2025

    Photography by. Michaele Walsh

  • Standing in between

    Standing in between

    Union Theatre, London, UK/ Feb. 2025

    Photography by. Michaele Walsh

  • Standing in between

    Union Theatre, London, UK/ Feb. 2025

    Photography by. Michaele Walsh

  • Standing in between

    Union Theatre, London, UK/ Feb. 2025

    Photography by. Michaele Walsh

  • Standing in between

    Union Theatre, London, UK/ Feb. 2025

    Photography by. Michaele Walsh

  • Standing in between

    Union Theatre, London, UK/ Feb. 2025

    Photography by. Michaele Walsh

  • Standing in Between_Heterogeneous Aesthetics

    Kingston Museum, London, UK/ Mar. 2025

  • Standing in between_Heterogeneous Aesthetics

    Kingston Museum/ London, UK/ Mar. 2025

  • Standing in Between_Heterogeneous Aesthetics

    Kingston Museum, London, UK/ Mar. 2025

  • Standing in between_Heterogeneous Aesthetics

    Kingston Museum, London, UK/ Mar. 2025

Standing in between

  • Key words: Body Politics, Liminality, Female Artists, Cultural stereotypes, K-pop, 1988 Olympics, Modern dance, performance, diaspora, female artists, cultural colonialism, identity

  • Union Theatre, Itch That Scratch, Feb. 2025

  • Kingston Museum, Mar.2025

  • Theatre Deli, Dec.2025

synopsis

This is KASSNA KOLLETIV's investigation of East Asian   artists' identity in the contemporary British landscape. Crossing genres amongst ballet, modern dance, K-pop and Korean traditional dance, KASSNA shows the struggle of redefining ourselves in the new context as migrant artists.
Directed by Namoo Chae Lee
Choreography by Suyoung Park
Dramaturg by Minhee Yeo
Performed by Suyoung Park and Minhee Yeo

Coming Up!

Users Manual for a Failed Machine

  • Key words: Body Politics, Liminality, Female Artists, Cultural stereotypes, K-pop, 1988 Olympics, Modern dance, performance, diaspora, female artists, cultural colonialism, identity

  • Union Theatre, Itch That Scratch, Feb. 2025

  • Kingston Museum, Mar.2025

  • Theatre Deli, Dec.2025

synopsis

User’s Manual for a Failed Machine is an interdisciplinary devised performance that transforms an appliance instruction manual into a theatrical score. Starting from the breakdown of a Daewoo vacuum cleaner, the work explores failure, labour, memory, and the fragile relationship between bodies and machines through text, movement, and sound.
Directed by Namoo Chae Lee
Choreography by Suyoung Park
Music by Seayool Kim

  • K-Jangnyeo

    Union Theatre, London/ Apr. 2025

    image design by Nari

  • K-Jangnyeo

    Union Theatre, London/ Apr. 2025

    photo by Ben Bull @ben_bull

  • K-Jangnyeo

    Union Theatre, London/ Apr. 2025

    photo by Ben Bull @ben_bull

  • K-Jangnyeo

    Union Theatre, London/ Apr. 2025

    photo by Ben Bull @ben_bull

  • K-Jangnyeo

    Union Theatre, London/ Apr. 2025

    photo by Ben Bull @ben_bull

  • K-Jangnyeo

    Union Theatre, London/ Apr. 2025

    photo by Ben Bull @ben_bull

  • K-Jangnyeo

    Union Theatre, London/ Apr. 2025

    photo by Ben Bull @ben_bull

synopsis

K-Jangnyeo, meaning the first daughter in the family in Korea, explores the rivalry and the friendship amongst sisterhoods. In the high pressure societies like Korea, the expectations fall upon the first child, and the first daughters are often asked to fulfil the role of a son and a daughter. The piece explores the ways to deal with societal expectation through mutual understanding and love. 
Directed by Namoo Chae Lee
Choreography by Suyoung Park
Dramaturg by Minhee Yeo
Performed by Suyoung Park and Martha Crow

K-Jangnyeo

  • Key words: Sisterhood, Social Expectations, Body Politics, Liminality, Female Artists, Cultural stereotypes

  • Union Theatre, Itch That Scratch, Apr. 2025

  • Origin of Goot

    Bold Elephant, London, UK/ Jan. 2025

    photo by Minhee Yeo

  • Origin of Goot

    Bold Elephant, London, UK/ Jan. 2025

    photo by Minhee Yeo

  • Origin of Goot

    Bold Elephant, London, UK/ Jan. 2025

    photo by Minhee Yeo

  • photo by Minhee Yeo

    Origin of Goot

    Bold Elephant, London, UK/ Jan. 2025

    photo by Minhee Yeo

  • Origin of Goot

    Designed by Nari

Origin of Goot

-modernising traditions and rituals

  • Key words: ritual, diaspora, female artists, cultural colonialism, Goot, shaman, folk culture and modernity.

Development in Progress

  • BOLD Scratch, R&D - Origins of Goot, 2025

  • Kingston Museum - Upcoming Full Production in March, 2025

synopsis

In search of Korean ritual series, this show draws inspiration from Choi Seunghee, an international superstar in 1920 under Japanese colonisation, who navigated the complexities of being stuck in tradition and westernisation.  
Delving into Korean shamanistic ritual Goot, we find the origins of our rituals. 

Directed by Namoo Chae Lee
Choreography by Suyoung Park
Performed by Suyoung Park and Namoo Chae Lee
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