Olivia Hyunsin Kim/
Ddanddarakim
Yellow banana
SAT 7. May 2022
9.00 PM
Schwankhalle, Buntentorsteinweg 112/116, 28201 Bremen
Duration: approx. 60 Minutes
South Korea/Germany
A shared celebration for all present.
tanznetz
The 250-million-year anniversary of the Eurasian continental plate wants to be celebrated. To mark the occasion, Olivia Hyunsin Kim celebrates a ritual of reconciliation between the two continents with small gestures and loud guests. The focus is on a familiar fruit: the banana, originally from Southeast Asia, and thus Olivia Hyunsin Kim herself. The German-Korean calls herself an ‘authentic banana’: yellow on the outside, white on the inside. With feminist and postcolonial references, in YELLOW BANANA she spans an arc from her own origins and identity to a social critique of the present. Included: fog that smells of coconut, a remote-controlled fan choreography, a Eurasian anthem and four drummers with headdresses.
Memory culture, intersectional feminism and identity constructions are the focal points of OLIVIA HYUNSIN KIM‘S artistic work. She completed her Master’s degree in choreography and performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and the HfMDK Frankfurt. She works as a choreographer and curator in Berlin, Frankfurt a.M. and Seoul. In 2019, she won first place in the Amadeu Antonio Arts Prize for Miss Yellow and Me – I wanna be a musical. She gave her production network the Korean name for unserious artistry, ddanddarakim.
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Concept/choreography/performance: Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Live music: Tatiana Heuman
Musical support: DoodulSori
Song: Elisha Kaminer
Lighting: Emile van Gils
Dramaturgical advice: Piet Menu, Jee-Ae Lim
Production: Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ ddanddarakim
Co-production: Het Zuidelijk Toneel
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest performance funding dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the Länder.
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest performance funding dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the Länder.
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