What happens to a ritual when it leaves home?

An inherited gesture. A remembered rhythm. A tradition searching for a new context.

Origin of Goot draws on Korean shamanic ritual to explore how cultural practices can be rediscovered and reimagined through performance.

Inspired by dancer Choi Seung-hee, the research places tradition and Westernisation in dialogue. Through movement and ritual, it asks how migrant artists can work with what they inherit while making space for artistic reinvention.

What do we preserve, what do we transform, and who gets to decide where a tradition belongs?