A leading choreographer on the contemporary Asian and global scene, rooted in shamanic rituals and trained in both Korea and the United States, Eun-Me Ahn has developed a choreographic language that blends East and West, tradition and transformation. Her new creation, Post-Orientalist Express, brings together theatre, dance, contemporary circus, ancestral traditions, and pop culture to explore the richness of Asian heritage while questioning its representations.
Legends, costumes, music, movement, and references to pop culture become tools to confront clichés and stereotypes, bending them to the point of absurdity in order to reveal their contradictions.
Ahn gathers fragments of movement from everyday life and from different corners of Asia—from crowded markets to the beaches of Okinawa, from the rhythms of the Philippines to the spiritual vibrations of Indonesia—to reassemble them on stage and shape a colourful, vibrant, eccentric, absurd, playful, poetic, and ultimately timeless universe.
