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Performing Arts Market in Seoul Showcase
March 8th [Thu] 16:30-17:30 / Tokyo International Forum Hall B7-1
From Performing Arts Market in Seoul, which has been cooperating and exchanging showcases with TPAM since its establishment in 2005, we introduce A-soon Dance Company.
A-soon Dance Company A-soon Dance Company
Founded by choreographer AE-SOON Ahn in 1983. Since then the company has released new productions every year for about twenty years. The company was invited to Yokohama Dance Collection 2002, WDA Europe-Festival Global Dance 2002, Singapore Arts Festival 2004, Festival Internacional Cervantino 2004 etc, also won the grand prize in Recontres Choreographiques Interantioinales de Bagnolet in 1998 and received the Korea Dance Critic's Award of 2000 and the Best Arts Award of the Year of 2004. The company has been receiving critical attention for its distinctive style, whereby they take various themes and meanings from traditional Korean culture and juxtapose them with contemporary dance forms.