break a shell …Project Art Dog Reveals New Modern Dance Under the Shell
Oct 01, 2025
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The modern dance group Project Art Dog (CEO Jeon Ye-hwa) will perform its new work 'Under the Shell' at the Seongsu Art Hall on October 18. This work was produced with the support of the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Cultural Foundation, and is an experimental dance play with the theme of "Digital Existentialism".
Inspired by Franz Kafka's novel 「Transformation」, the work captures human anxiety, cracks, and existential desires living in the digital age in body language. In a modern society that is constantly evaluated and classified, it conveys the message that human nature's truth is revealed in errors and imperfections.
The stage unfolds in the tension of groups and individuals, discipline and deviance, oppression and regeneration. The dissonance of the group dance and the combination of video, lighting, and costumes provide an unfamiliar but intense sense to the audience.
The foreshadow choreographer says "under the shell" is a resistance to the gaze of seeing humans as perfectly as machines, and the power of humans to prove themselves as imperfect beings", he explained.
The former choreographer is a former Dankook University dance doctor who won the 2024 Korean Dance Awards Presidential Award, and is actively working, including being selected as a choreographer for MODAFE this year.
Tickets are 30,000 won for all seats and can be booked by searching 'under the shell' on Naver.
Project Art Dog is an organization that explores contemporary social phenomena and human instincts with the language of dance, and in November, it will also present the 46th Seoul Dance Festival Competition category contestant 'Wonder, Woman-Wonder'.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
