About the Project

Choreography disappears.
Choreography remains.
Body / Archive / Present
40 years of moments, reanimated.
Mondays, when the theater sleeps,
we awaken dance and dialogue.
Choreography evolves.

As a pre-production research project for the new work Moment Edit premiering in 2027, Ahn Aesoon Company presents an immersive performance that visualizes how choreography is transmitted and transformed across time.

Performance materializes on stage and vanishes. Yet choreography does not disappear. Past works remain inscribed in dancers' bodies, persist in archives, and mutate through new generations. Set in ARKO Arts Theater—a space that has co-created Korean contemporary dance history—this project proposes the continuity of creation flowing from past to present to future.

Audiences wander through the entire theater as a single journey, traversing layers of time. Moment Edit demonstrates how each moment becomes the foundation for the next generation's creation, and how artistic language is endlessly renewed and expanded.

Choreography continues to evolve.

Program
Immersive Performance
7:00–7:30 PM | Lobby (1F & 2F) 

Showcase
7:40–8:10 PM / 8:20–8:50 PM / 9:00–9:30 PM | Studio Darak

Club Talk with Live DJ & Wine
7:40–9:00 PM | Lobby

Experience by Space

Lobby / 1F — Choreography Remains
Current dancers and choreographers re-perform Ahn Aesoon's past choreography through their present bodies.
Amid projected archive footage, past documentation and present bodies overlap.
Performers: Kang Ho-jung, Kim Ho-yeon, Jung Yoon-jung, Choi Min-sun, Choi Hye-kyung, Han Sang-ryul

Lobby / 2F — Archive & Dialogue
Archive footage of past works, interview videos with choreographers who shared the same artistic era, and highlights from the Moment Edit roundtable are screened alongside excerpts from the sourcebook. A space where past records converse with the present.

Studio Darak — Choreography Evolves
Seven dancers unfold new experiments, using Ahn Aesoon's choreography as material to research and develop movement.
Past choreography is deconstructed, reassembled, and varied. Dance from the archive passes through present bodies to generate new language, becoming the foundation for the 2027 premiere.
Performers: Kim Na-eui, Kim Ju-young, Kim Ji-hyung, Seo Jung-bin, Lee Hyun-woo, Lim You-jeong, Cho Hyeon-do

Lobby — Club Talk with Live DJ
Between showcases, the lobby becomes a salon for a "dance party" with wine and live DJ music.
The "dance party" from The Right to Happiness (2003) unfolds again across more than 20 years.
A time when dance and dialogue flow freely, inviting the theater into everyday life, viewing into conversation, and art into living.

Roundtable
On November 25, 2025, artists and theorists who have co-created Korean dance history gathered at Daehakro Arts Theater Square. Passing through past art-historical moments, they freely shared thoughts about the present creative scene and future possibilities. This conversation is both part of the research process for Moment Edit and a field of inquiry exploring creative methodologies in contemporary performing arts.
Moderator: Cho Hyung-bin (dance critic)
Speakers: Hwang Soo-hyun (choreographer), Kim Jong-seok (stage designer), Heo Myung-jin (dance critic), Kim Min-kwan (dance critic), Kwon Tae-hyun (curator)