Sung Im Her: 1 Degree Celsius

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Image courtesy of Grec Festival de Barcelona.

This exhilarating and hypnotic dance production invites audiences to consider how art can inspire action in response to the changing environment around us.

With Her’s signature electrifying movement, pulsating music, and dynamic lighting, 1 Degree Celsius explores the individual and collective body, placing humanity at the center of our relationships with the urban and natural world.

The seven dancers of Her’s abstract dance production move with both sharp precision and undulating flow as they hypnotically cross the stage space, revealing how closeness and distance between bodies creates a shared collective identity. In 1 Degree Celsius, bodies in nature, urban bodies, and bodies that calculate, collide and resist come together as embodiments of our struggle to respond to the Earth’s changing state.

Born in South Korea, award-winning artist Sung Im Her earned a master’s degree in contemporary dance from Hansung University and has also studied in Belgium at P.A.R.T.S. Her has worked across Korea and Belgium with many prestigious companies including Ji-Gu Dance Theater, Les ballets C de la B, Needcompany, Abattoir Fermé, and Opéra de Lille and many more. Since settling in the UK, Her has premiered many of her own works, including You Are Okay! (2017), Human Wall (2018), Nutcrusher (2019), W.A.Y (2019), Time in Between Time (2020) and most recently Tomorrowisnowtodayisyesterday (2024). In her work, Her seeks to balance a minimalist, formal aesthetic with a content-rich narrative style. As a choreographer, she explores the essence of movements, unburdened by cultural or personal meaning.

For audiences 8 years old and over.

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