Let Us Dance: 'Still I Rise', Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, 15th September - 15th December 2019 (Every Sunday).

This collection includes a collaborative flash mob performance, <b>Let Us Dance</b>, and a large scale embroidery work, <b>Burning Love </b>inspired by the landmark 2008 candlelit demonstrations in Seoul involving the mass participation of teenage girls. Commissioned for the PLATEAU Museum, Seoul in 2014,<b> Let Us Dance</b> explores the potential of unregulated collective engagement and history as an ongoing act of participation and socio political and cultural challenge in the present.<br><br>This item contains a press release, a video of one of the performances and a collection of archival images from the 2008 demonstration in Seoul, South Korea.<br><br>This item documents the UK premiere of <b>Let Us Dance </b>as part of <i>Still I Rise</i> at the Arnolfini, a 3 month programme of 70 international artists, exploring different approaches to resistance from a gendered perspective. Performed every Sunday for 3 months by a different group of female volunteer dancers, <b>Let Us Dance</b> was re contextualised in Bristol by the dancers' collective, interpretive responses to their own experience in the current societal climate.<br><br><b>Let Us Dance</b> was first performed in PLATEAU, Seoul in 2014. In 2016, <b>Let Us Dance</b> was revived by a different group of participants in Paris as part of South Korea Guest of Honour Rituals programme at Art Paris Art Fair 2016. This is the project’s UK premiere.<br><br>Press release courtesy of the Arnolfini, Bristol.<br><br>Supported by Trinity Centre, Bristol.<br><br><b>Videography by Young In Hong. Used with permission. </b><br><br><b>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.</b>