South Korea’s Melancholy Dance Company to bring two performances to Bengaluru on January 25

12th Attakalari India Biennial to present your symptomsAnd flight, By Melancholy Dance Company of South Korea as part of BLR Habba and Attakkalari India Biennial 2025-26. The double bill, which marks the conclusion of the festival, is being presented in India for the first time.

talking to The HinduJeong Cheol In, founder and director of the South Korean Melancholy Dance Company, says that even though some of the team’s dancers have performed in India before, this will be the first time flight And your symptoms Being presented to the Indian audience. Jeong spoke with the help of Jin, a freelance producer and translator who traveled to India from Seoul.

Speaking over the phone from Indira Gandhi International Airport, before boarding a connecting flight to Bengaluru, Jeong says his choreography expresses the impulse to rise beyond physical and psychological limits.

According to him, flight Sees exhaustion, degradation, and the gradual act of moving toward one’s aspirations. He says that through leaps and suspended gestures, the two dancer-pieces explore human emotions beyond countries and borders. “One can achieve success only when there have been failures. flight This idea was born and I have illustrated it with rising and falling movements.

Jeong, who began choreographing choreography in 2014, is based on an intense investigation of physicality. He is the chief choreographer and a performer in both the dance productions. Through the subtle vocabulary of movement, he says, he examines the emotional and psychological layers of the human condition, which moves the audience.

Jeong Cheol In, Founder and Director of the South Korean Melancholy Dance Company Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

your symptomsAddresses identity crisis and social issues faced by modern individuals. Jeong says, “This work complexly expresses the loneliness and emotional restlessness of modern individuals and through a deep exploration of universal human emotions, it proposes a new mode of contemporary stage expression.” With seven dancers, all human emotions are embraced and reflected on stage.