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Opening night – double bill

Sung Im Her / HER project
Date
Thu May 14 20:00
Duration
110 min with a short break
Language
Language no problem
Country
Seoul, South Korea
Price
€ 35,- / € 30,-
+ € 0,25 per transaction
Themes
Body Talks, Opening night
Edition
SPRING 2026

Sung Im Her – Everything Falls Dramatic &TomorrowisNowTodayisYesterday
SPRING opens with a special double bill by renowned choreographer Sung 
Im Her. Bringing together two distinct groups of collaborators, this evening offers a unique opportunity to dive into her visceral world across the big stage of Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.

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Double bill

Everything Falls Dramatic draws you into an intense, physical experience of loss, vulnerability and connection. Slow, repetitive movements make tangible what it means to hold on and to let go. After the interval, the atmosphere shifts in TomorrowisNowTodayisYesterday. The energy accelerates: sharp movements and a relentless flow of stimuli embody how information and social media impact society. Together, the two performances form an evening that makes you feel what it is to be human in a time of disappearance and overload.

Everything Falls Dramatic

TomorrowisNowTodayisYesterday

This opening night brings together two performances that each open up their own world, but fully come into their own when experienced back to back. With a single ticket, you see Everything Falls Dramatic and TomorrowisNowTodayisYesterday, separated by an interval, as two parts of one continuous experience.

In Everything Falls Dramatic, time slows down. Through physical, repetitive choreography, an intimate exploration of impermanence, farewell and connection unfolds. The dance moves between calm and tension, between being alone and carrying things together. Without explaining anything, the work makes you feel how loss and change pass through the body, and how this very vulnerability intensifies life.

After the interval, the focus shifts to a different kind of unrest. TomorrowisNowTodayisYesterday places the body at the centre of a world of information, opinions and digital noise. On a bare stage, driven by club-like soundscapes, the dancers move between recognisable and exaggerated gestures. What appears light and playful takes on a darker undertone: the constant pressure to be visible, to keep up and to stay in motion.

Together, these two works form an opening night that does not explain, but lets you experience. An evening about living in the present, balancing between silence and stimulus, between disappearance and overload, and about how we relate to each other and to ourselves within that tension.

Press

Everything Falls Dramatic

“Mesmerisingly evoked” – Stage  

At one point, the dancers all rise together ….. and it’s like tuning violin strings when you hit a perfect fifth and all of a sudden it sings.” – The Guardian 

TomorrowisNowTodayisYesterday

“A demanding piece that succinctly pinpoints the pitfalls of social media.” – The Stage

“Vastly energetic… incredibly thoughtful examples of Korean choreography.” ★★★★ – The Reviews Hub

“An awe-inspiring degree of stamina… an enthusiastic audience clearly hopes for more.” – The Herald

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Credits

Credits Everything Falls Dramatic

Premiere: Korea National Contemporary Dance Company (2022)
Choreography: SungIm Her
Music Composition: Husk Husk
Light designer: YoungUk Lee
Dramaturgy: YoonHee Yang
Costume: Sun Yeol Im
Dancers: SungIm Her, JaeSung Yu, SeJoon Lee, JunHong Cho, HyeonTaek Oh, JiHye Ha
Production: KNCDC Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, HER project
Distribution: Project DARI
Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea / KOFICE / K-arts on the GO

 

Credits TomorrowisNowTodayisYesterday

Choreograph en performer: Sung Im Her
Performers: Martha Passakopoulou & Sejoon Lee
Light desing: Hyung Sun Tak
Composition: Husk Husk
Production: Uprise Rebel & Ji Soo Gook
Co-commisioned by: Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) (KR) & The Place (UK)
Additional support of: FABRIC (UK), New Italian Dance Platform (IT), Duncan Center (Greece) Horizon Showcase Created in England (UK), TEN (IT), Fuorimagine(IT) S’ala (IT), Zeit (IT).
 

These performances are a part of AECFest, a multidisciplinary public arts festival that alternates annually between Asia and Europe. In 2026, it will be presented as a festival-in-a-festival within SPRING, taking place from May 14 to 23. This edition marks the third consecutive year that AECFest is hosted within a major international festival platform, following editions in Italy (2024) and China (2025). 
 
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (AECFest) is organized by Asia Europe Foundation with the financial support of the People’s Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. 

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