Interwoven

Interwoven begins with a moment of pause, when I become more aware of nature, culture, and the distance between myself and others.
Through movement and thread, I explore the visible and invisible connections linking me to the past, present, and future. Nature, sound, and human relationships meet within my body, shaping how I move, respond, and exist.

Rather than seeking to resolve these connections, Interwoven explores what it means to simply exist within them.

How are you and I connected?

There are moments when I want everything to stop. In those moments, I begin to notice what surrounds me: nature, culture, and the distance between myself and others. I become aware of the countless threads connecting me to the past, present, and future. The environments I inhabit, the people I encounter, and the cultural experiences I carry are not separate from who I am. They meet within my body, influencing how I move, feel, and respond. Interwoven is a solo choreographic work that explores these connections through movement and thread, drawing on three interconnected sources: nature, music, and human relationships. In nature, I encounter different textures, rhythms, and qualities of movement through elements such as earth, wind, sunlight, snow, waves, and leaves. Music offers another space of encounter, where sound, rhythm, and silence can influence my physical responses. Human relationships bring questions of distance, closeness, attachment, and the cultural experiences we carry within ourselves. Thread becomes a physical material through which I can explore these connections. It allows me to investigate how relationships might take shape in space and how encounters with a material can influence my movement. These encounters do not always create harmony. Connections may overlap, resist, shift, or simply coexist. I am interested in how these different relationships become present in my body and how they might be expressed through movement.

Rather than presenting a fixed meaning of connection, Interwoven remains an exploration of what it means to exist among countless visible and invisible relationships.

Jae Eun Jung is a South Korean dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor based in the Netherlands. Trained at Sunhwa Arts School and Ewha Womans University, she has performed with various companies and artists across Korea and Europe. She currently works as a freelance dancer with Ukraine International Ballet in The Hague and is studying in the Master Choreography programme at Codarts and Fontys Academy of the Arts.