Wham Bam at Bagnolet

February 11, 2017 / No Comments

WHAM BAM !

You are invited to an special event of corporeal improvisation directed by Won Kim of the company Pas de Dieux, in collaboration with the association Angle d’Art directed by Francis Leonesi. Around twenty actors and musicians will play on

Theme : « Enfance, des ires capitales »

ALL AGES WELCOME

A corporeal improvisation show
at 4pm

Sunday, February 26

Maison de quartier de la Dhuys
8 impasse des Loriettes
in front of 100 avenue Gambetta et de l’école Joliot-Curie
93170 Bagnolet M° Gallieni
10mins by walking or Bus 318 (Exit at Marie-Anne Colombier, 4th stop).

FREE

Organization : Le Lézard sur le Trampoline, Angle d’Art, and company Pas de Dieux

Credit Photos : Jemina Boraccino

Champong at Centre Culturel Pouya 2

January 11, 2017 / No Comments

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CHAMPONG

On Saturday January 28, Champong is back by popular demand!

CHAMPONG! January 28, 7pm at Centre Culturel Pouya, 48 quai de Jemmapes, Paris 10th arrondissement.

For this special event, we are celebrating the launch of Cho Mi Jin’s latest book From France, I see Korea. Living in France for 16 years and married to a French national, whom she met at Sydney, she opens a door between Korea and France. Through her writing, she shares with her Korean compatriots, the daily life in Paris that she has witnessed and has experienced. The comparisons between the two cultures provide a critical view of the political situation in Korea… without ever betraying her profound affection for her native country.

In her book, she objectively interrogates the quality of the daily life in Korea, as a result of its political decision-making, by offering specific comparisons with France.

The evening will serve up a one-time only performance Champong, which means a spicy mix of cultures in a soup in Korean, where we will start with invited musicians who will then be joined by Abbas Bakhtiari, and Iranian Daf master, as well as other surprise musical guests. To add to the mix, we will have dancers and mimes including Won Kim, Adèle Frantz, Charly Labourier, Hanako Danjo, Thilina Pietro and Janice Zadrozynski.

As you might have surmised by now, the evening promises plenty of surprises.

We hope that you will join us in this boiling hot experience of artistic encounter in search of euphoria through experimentation.

After the show, we hope you will join us for diner of delicious Iranian cuisine prepared by the Centre Culturel Pouya, and to continue the exchange.

Rendez-vous on January 28 at 7pm at Centre Culturel Pouya!

Centre Culturel Pouya

48 bis Quai de Jemmapes, 75010 Paris

January 28, 2017

7pm

15 € general admissions / 10€ students

Reservations : 01 42 08 38 47

After the show:

Iranian Dinner Menu

From 8€ to 15€ per person

Mime/Dancers

Won Kim
Adèle Frantz
Charly Labourier
Hanako Danjo
Thilina Pietro
Janice Zadrozynski

Musicians

Alexis Hamon
Josephine Viger
Robinson Senpaurouca
Sarah Dupont
Antoine Cirou

Photo / Video
Chengji Lee

CHO Mi Jin born 1968 near Nonsan, South Korea. She grew up in a small village in a natural environment which serves as a grand inspiration for her life. At the age of 10 years, the family ensemble moved to Seoul.

In 1987, she started a professional career but decided to continue her studies in literature at the Myongji University in Seoul.

In 2000, after obtaining her undergraduate degree, she went abroad to Sydney to study English in a language school. There, she encountered her current French husband with whom she has 2 children, Namou and Oudjou. In parallel, she writes articles for the journal Eurocorée (Euro Korea).

She has received an undergraduate degree in French literature at the Paris 8 University and works for the Korean Journal, Paris Han Weekly since 2013.

In 2016, she has published her first book “From France, I see Korea” and has organized her first photo exposition in Seoul.

Passioned by travel, writing and photography, she wants to traverse the world in search of new inspirations.

1968년 9월 2일 한국 논산시의 한 작은 마을에서 출생.

1978년 가족들과 서울로 이주.

1987년부터 고등학교 졸업 후 사회생활을 시작해 일을 함

1998년 명지전문대학 문예창작과 입학

2000년 2월 명지전문대학 문예창작과 졸업

2000년1-9월 호주시드니 어학원에서 영어공부

2000년 10월 프랑스에서 결혼.

2001과 2003년 나무와 우주 출생.

2005년-2008년 파리교민신문 유로꼬레 기자로 활동

2009년 파리 8대학 불문학과 입학

2012년 파리 8대학 불문학 졸업

2013년부터 파리교민신문 한위클리 객원기자로 활동 중

2016년 6월 첫 책 ‘프랑스에서 한국을 바라보다’출간하며 첫 개인전을 서울에서 개최. 여행을 좋아하며 사진을 찍고 글을 쓰며 세상을 사랑하며 살고 있다.

The Echo Chamber of Noa Baak

December 31, 2015 / 1 Comment

Dear Daniel aka Noa Baak,

What a surprise to see a box arrive from New York with your name on it. The book inside is a treasure and a most cherished gift.

It uncovers the life and the adventures of a poet who dares to explore Paris in face of all of its clichés. You are a comrade artist in arms, a warrior poet in search for the beautiful gesture that could be residing in a gutter of a hidden alley or in front of the most iconic tourist locations. We see through you, the world afresh.

I will never forget our first encounter in front of Georges Pompidou when we were just throwing ourselves onto the streets as we had no idea at the time how to produce a company. Us, three Asian foreigners and a 19 year-old French student, were driven by a passion to just continue to work together. Still in school, we were as passionate as we were naïve. And if it weren’t for this primal necessity to create art and to live creating, proving our freedom, we would not have met.

Your photos are more than just memories. They reveal a vital force that transcends survival and awakens us to be more aware of our surroundings. You have succeeded in capturing the ineffable atmosphere through the vibrations of black and white. And the extraordinary is born out of the ordinary.

I am sorry to hear that Noa Baak is no more. On one hand, I understand very well. Your work, being true poetry, rests non-economic, and on the outer marges of material value. But please remember, that is exactly why it is so rich. The work does not care about it’s relation to the currents of contemporary art, nor to an art critique’s point of view. It is a very intimate and heartfelt experience of seeing through you, and beyond you. And your search for the yonder is ever so present. I thank you for this. Because it is a truly honest work and thus, quite rare.

I write this blog in hopes of keeping aflame the poet within. Your work gives me courage to continue. And when I feel that queasy sensation that no one cares, I remind myself that the world does not need my art, but rather it is myself who need it.

I want to thank you for not selling out your art and maintaining the love that keeps this book so poetically singular. I can imagine the sacrifice that it took to create such a work and how much you had to sell yourself in other ways. The fact that you can maintain your dignity and compassion in the face of financial ruin is a very trying ethical test. And the proof that you have made it this far, is already inspiring.

You are a person of multiple talents, and thus can dance in between the lines of order and chaos, between paying the bills and spending it all. And while Noa Baak might be gone, there is still the wonderful Mice Grey who is guided by a good friend Daniel Seo.

You are a true friend,

Won

Champong at Centre Culturel Pouya

November 16, 2015 / No Comments

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CHAMPONG

12월 18일 금요일 저녁 19시 !!!!

Centre Culturel Pouya에서 한국-프랑스의 해를 기념하여, 한국과 프랑스, 음악과 움직임의 특별한 만남에 여러분을 초대합니다.

‘즉흥음악의 마술사’라 불리우는 대금연주자 이아람과, 음악 프로젝트 W & S 로 이아람과 호흡을 맞추고 있는 프랑스 재즈 플루티스트 Jocelyn Mienniel 의 환상적인 듀오로 막을 열 이번 콘서트는, 이란의 타악기 Daf 연주자 Abbas Baktiari가 음악적 풍부함을 더하고, 마임가 Won KIM 과 그의 동료들이 움직임으로 무대를 채우면서 흥미롭고 신나는 금요일 밤의 파티가 될 것 입니다. 다양한 장르의 예술가들과 즐거운 대화을 가지실 수 있도록 콘서트 후에 간단한 다과와 식사를 즐기실 수 있습니다.

12월 18일 19시 Centre Culturel Pouya, 48 quai de Jemmapes, 75010, Paris.

No need to search further for the evening of December 18, there is Champong

CHAMPONG! December 18, 7pm at Centre Culturel Pouya, 48 quai de Jemmapes, Paris 10th arrondissement. For this special event, a shout out to Year of France-Korea, we have the pleasure to host Aram Lee, flutist, magician of musical improvisation and former member of Baramgot and leader of NAMU. Before his European and American tour, he will stop by Paris for a special evening where he will play side by side with his French doppelganger, Jocelyn Miennel, flutist, saxophonist, compositor and producer. Together, they have launched the project “Wood & Steel”, based on the musical improvisation of flutes. It has been programmed at the National Theater of Korea last July.

The evening will serve up a performance Champong, which means a spicy mix of cultures in a soup in Korean, where we will start with the Korean-French duo who will then be joined by Abbas Bakhtiari, and Iranian Daf master, as well as other surprise musical guests. To add to the mix, we will have dancers and mimes including Won Kim.

As you might have surmised by now, the evening promises plenty of surprises.

We hope that you will join us in this boiling hot experience of artistic encounter in search of euphoria through experimentation.

After the show, we hope you will join us for diner of delicious Iranian cuisine prepared by the Centre Culturel Pouya, and to continue the exchange.

Rendez-vous on December 18 at 7pm at Centre Culturel Pouya!