THE 2008 KOREA EXPERIMENTAL ARTS FESTIVAL
The purpose of Korea Experimental Arts Festival is to build a communication between audiences and experimental arts. This festival happens every year since 2002 under the art director of Kim Baek Ki who is a performance artist and chief of KoPAS. 

Select performers were invited to showcase materials of their performance at the Expression Gallery YOGIGA. Forward Motion Theater’s collaboration with Eseohe Arhebamen, Fire Butoh 3, was on display. The festival was carried by South Korea’s major broadcasters.

In this work, I am possessed by the spirits of Fire in a dance of internal transformation. Through the mask of Ankoku-butoh, I make visible, aspects of Afrikan spiritual possession present in the multimedias of Afrikan Theater. Fire has many forms. It is healing, cauterizing, destructive, holy, clarifying and also gives warmth. This is the third installment in the FIRE BUTOH Series. The traditional Nigerian dances performed are Swange, Atilogun, and Ekombi.”

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