Dragons
Eun Me Ahn

She has long been seen as the enfant terrible of the dance and performance scene, was involved with shamanistic practices, studied dance in Seoul and New York and was good friends with Pina Bausch. The Korean choreographer extraordinaire Eun-Me Ahn transforms the stage into a fantastical world in Dragons.

All 14 dancers – six of whom are present as flickering holograms – were born in 2000, the year of the dragon. Eun-Me Ahn shows the dragon as an ambivalent creature, in its East Asian significance as commanding and touching. This dragon drifts through the space as silver tubing. It comes as the symbol of transformation and continual change. Just right for the generation of Millennials, born into a globalized digital world that never stands still.

And these 14 dancers dance, dance and dance, mixing traditional forms, acrobatics and contemporary dance, sparkling with energy and beauty – like dragons wanting a good future together.