acts 2021 // DIE AUSSTELLUNG // Mihyun Ko

if © Mihyun Ko

A heavy wave is striking.

2020, an unexpected and difficult situation came to me. Covid-19. I did not imagine what was going to come. Regardless of my will, I had to stay at home for such a long time. It felt like there is nothing that I could change about it. I had to accept the bad news…

I realized that one by one all my plans got cancelled. The situation has gotten more serious.

Without work, how can I find a balance for one year in a foreign
country?

How can I find a new artistic routine?

It was very hard to accept all kinds of changes at the same time. I was not ready for this. I believe for many people it was like this.

Nervosity, Fear, Instability, Confusion, Scariness, Disappointment,
Loneliness, Lack of Motivation, Depression …

Spending time in my imagination was a way to escape from the situation.

I imagined teleporting to other spaces.

I imagined working with my colleagues. I imagined having a holiday …

So I was becoming a dreamer.

If…

If…

If…

I never used this word so frequently in my life.

If…

If…

What is my normal daily life?

So in this portrait-task I started to develop from the word “if“.

Mihyun Ko was born 1987 in Daejeon, Southkorea. She studied at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where she graduated in 2018 as Dancer, Choreographer, Dance teacher. Since then she worked with various Choreographers and artists in Europe, such as Felix Landerer Company (internship), Coperativa Maura Morales, Kaiser-Antonino Dance Ensemble, K21 Düsseldorf, Glauconar Yue, Sita Ostheimer, Lihito Kamiya, Cocoon Dance, Vera Sander, Bouchra Ouizguen, Alexandra Waierstall. Since 2016 she is working as a dancer with Emanuele Soavi incompany. Frequently she is creating her own choreographies.

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