Ballerina Who Loved a B-Boy

Ethereal. Otherworldly. Out of this world.  

Words can't do justice to this mix of ballet and break dance-hip hop performance from Korea.  

Playwright and director Choi Yunyeop did an amazing job of presenting this modern dance form to the ever-classical ballet audience in a captivating and jaw-dropping way.

it's basically a hand-stand pirouette!

Talk about aerial position, height and stamina.

This is 90 minutes no-intermission show where all dancers present almost all the time. And it's a totally different level of effort for all  these moves.

As you get washed away with awe, suddenly ballerina gets haunted by her demons for maybe to stop her falling for b-boy. 

While you were thinking this show can't get any better, they haunt you too. 

The eccentric moves send shivers just like when Kafka's Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. 

Samsa must have felt and looked this way. 

 Definitely a masterpiece even only for this act. 

 

However, it totally destroys the aura build by the whole show seeing enormously sexualized presentation of female break dancers, or as they put it, b-girls. 

 With their half-naked outfits, performance suddenly switches to a K-pop music video, where young girls in high heels do some repetitive dance. 

Maybe it's korean showbiz, maybe the director. I wanna believe it is the former.