DAF International Artists – Subin Cho

A new young artist within the DAF International Program, Subin Cho arrives at her first commission within the international program after the recent recognition she received at the 28th International Solo-Dance-Theater Festival Stuttgart, where she was awarded the 1st Prize Choreography, the Residency Prize “Bridges over the Waves,” and the DAF International Award for her work “Fragile”. We have had the chance to encounter her work progressively, recognizing in her an artist with an entirely individual and personal perception of movement: a precise, sensitive, and unconventional gaze, capable of transforming the body into a living matter of observation, listening, and poetic construction. This first original creation now brings her into the studio with the dancers of the international program, opening a new space of research within the DAF season.

DAF’s choreographic residencies take shape as true cognitive laboratories, where dance moves beyond the dimension of physical practice to become a field of inquiry, a tool of observation, and a device for constructing thought. The creative process unfolds as a system of research, capable of generating original mechanisms and activating a real dialogue between artist and dancers, where the experience is never linear, but constantly renegotiated. Each season presents itself as a perceptual experiment: an interweaving of trajectories that meet, transform, and rewrite themselves, continuously opening new fields of possibility. In this space, dance takes on the value of a language of knowledge, resonating with the deepest tensions of contemporary culture.