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[INTERVIEW] Migrant workers lives explored in dance performance, A Seventh Man
Posted : 2021-06-01 15:22
By Park Ji-won
Choreographer Jung Young-doo / Courtesy of LG Arts Center A Seventh Man, a dance piece by choreographer Jung Young-doo dealing with migrant workers, will be performed again, 11 years following its creation in 2010.
The work, inspired by the book with the same title, A Seventh Man, (1975) a book by John Berger and Jean Mohr about the lives of migrant workers in Europe, explores the movements of people and their emotions working and living in other parts of the world.
Starting with the cleansing process of a gut, a shamanic ritual in Korea, 10 performers aim to show both the struggles and the hopes of people who were forced to leave their homes for various reasons throughout the 80-minute performance.