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‘When I was six or seven years old, my mom gave me a silver knife for self-protection. Should I bear my desire by stabbing my own thigh with it? Then who knows? It could make me feel very high like I’m flying in the sky.

 

<Silver Knife> is inspired by the silver knife that Korean widows had to wear historically to attack someone or commit suicide to protect her chastity. The dancers show various aspects of human beings on stage not only by dancing, but also by singing, rapping, cursing, and resting by doing nothing on stage. The imaginary island of Silver Knife is where only women are living, and their sharp repressed emotions are portrayed through movements. This piece shows the contradictory feelings of women who are bashful yet filled with anger. The piece tries to lead us beyond the idea of ‘women’ and reminds the emotions of those who need to keep concealing something in life.

Tour Information

Direction Proposers : Jinho Lim, Kyungmin Ji
Co-creatiors & dancers : Sungeun Lim, Kyunggu Lee, Hyunmin Ahn, Yeonju Lee
Tour size : 8 people ( 2 choreographers + 4 dancers + 2 staffs )
Duration : 1 hour, 20 mins 

International Tour History & Awards

2019 Invited by INFANT Festival, Cultural Center of NOVISAD in Serbia
2019 Invited by Inequilio Festival, ARMUNIA in Italy
2019 Invited by Cross Festival, Teatro ll Maggiore in Italy
2019 Invited by INTER PLAY, Lavanderia a Vapore in Italy
2019 Invited by FABBRICA EUROPA, Teatro Cantiere Florida in Italy
2019 Invited by Flora Theatre Festival, Divadle K3 in Czech Republic
2019 Invited by Japan Society in New York
2019 Invited by AEROWAVES-Spring Forward, Youth Theatre ‘Nikolay Binev’ in Bulgaria

2019 Won ‘Award for the most Successful Experiment’ at INFANT Festival in Serbia
2019 Won ‘Dance Act Award’ at Korean Association of Dance Critics and Researchers
2019 Won ‘Choreography Award’ at Changmu Arts Center
2017 Won ‘Choreography Award’ at Daegu International Dance Festival 

What People Say

There is a rebellious atmosphere in Silver Knife that reaches out from the edge of the stage and grabs you.. A ‘dead’ woman propelled around the stage by her companions arose our interest with piqued.
                                                               -Kelly Apter, Scotland-based Dance Critic, Springback Magazine, 2018

"They pointed out a distorted image of females through song and dance admiring essential beauty and liberty they craved in the ‘Silver Knife’ which is an island where four females live together."

                                                                                                  -Yerim Kim, Critic of Dance & People Webzine


It was a piece that gives sympathy to all people who can think with the accuracy of Asia meeting sensitive fantasy world. They had a talk with movements, danced with music.
                                                                                         - Audience comment by Kristina from Divadelní Flora

<Silver Knife> made the audience recognize that dance is not about having a linguistic understanding. It’s like a form and an air that stimulate audience improvisatorial and subjectively. For me, it was felt like a hope which sometimes loose my identity for everyone. It was felt like a world that they should hold with one another as a woman, like the loneliness and like alienation in a group.” 
                                                                                                    - Ema ŠLECHTOV, Webzine Divadeln noviny

Dancers of GOBLIN PARTY showed the emotion of women who are shy but at the same time full of anger with dance, song, rap, unconstrained language, shaking and stop.
                                                                                                                              - Webzine Global Firenze


As a result, <Silver Knife> is enough attraction to satisfy the audience desire in the K-style. The surprising quality and clear concept are the best example of the transformation from a specific cultural image to universal pop.
                                                                                                                 - Di David Della Scala, Quasiradio

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