Beyond the DMZ

In Beyond the DMZ, director Eu-Hee Kim and choreographer Natasa Trifan have created a powerful dance drama about Korean history, the separation of North and South, the Korean War, the Demilitarized Zone, and its impact fifty years later on families who were separated. Well-conceived and artistically well executed, DMZ shows off the supple,well-trained bodies of agile dancers in the company, using Modern Dance form to clearly communicate the pain, the joy, the lives of these people. Beyond the DMZ is quite moving as, through graceful, energetic movement by the nine dancers, sound (by Hyun JoonYoon), music, costumes (by Tae S. Kim), and lighting (by Daniel Green) it tells its powerful story of love, separation and search.