99 Art Company 'Je ver.3 Burning Life' Seoul Arts Award Grand Prize

The grand prize of the '2nd Seoul Arts Awards' was awarded to 99 Art Company’s 'Je ver3. Burning Life,' the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture announced on the 28th.

At the awards ceremony held at 3 p.m. at the National Theater’s Haneul Theater, 99 Art Company received the Best Award in the dance category for 'Je ver3. Burning Life,' which was presented last year. Subsequently, it was also selected as the grand prize winner among the six genre best award recipients, receiving a prize of 20 million KRW.

The judging panel stated, "Based on solid research on the rhythms of Korean dance’s Seungmu and labor, the work expanded the scope of Korean contemporary dance through multifaceted expressions using objects, lighting, costumes, and music, as well as intensive collaboration with domestic and international dancers. Choreographer Jang Hyerim, who leads 99 Art Company, gives us hope for the future of Korean contemporary dance," explaining the reason for selecting the grand prize winner.

Performance scene of 99 Art Company’s "Je ver3. Burning Life," winner of the Grand Prize at the 2nd Seoul Arts Awards
[Photo provided by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture]

The Best Awards were given to ▲ Our Classroom (Theater · Cheongchun Owol-dang) ▲ Collegium Vocale Seoul’s Bach St. Matthew Passion (Music · Collegium Vocale Seoul) ▲ 2023 Traditional Creative Music Group 4inNori 10th Anniversary Concert 'X' (Traditional · 4inNori) ▲ Time/Matter: The Living Museum (Visual · Shin Mikyung), each receiving 15 million KRW.

The Porsche Frontier Awards were given to ▲ Different Booyoung (Theater · Playwright Collective Gwalho) ▲ Earthing (Dance · Sinabro Gaseume) ▲ Recycling Concerto (Music · Lee Moonhee) ▲ Mujo (巫祖): From Circulation (Traditional · Bang Ji-won) ▲ HALL2 (Visual · Kim Donghee) ▲ Blind Mouth (Multidisciplinary · Lee Yeon-seok). Each received 10 million KRW.

The Jury Special Awards in the work category were given to ▲ The Art of Fighting 'Jol' (Theater · Jakdangmoi) ▲ Les Mis?rables (Dance · Dance Theater Shahar) ▲ Dialogues X Punto Blu II 'Beethoven: Waldstein ? Repetition' (Music · Bae Seunghye) ▲ All Things (Visual · Kim Jungwook). The Jury Special Award for Disabled Artists was given to ▲ visually impaired gayageum player Kim Bokyung. Each Jury Special Award received 5 million KRW.

Hosted by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, the Seoul Arts Awards is a pure arts award system that selects competitive and excellent works from those selected for the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture’s art support projects and artworks presented in Seoul throughout the year. The categories were expanded from five to six genres, conducting evaluations in theater, dance, music, traditional arts, visual arts, and multidisciplinary fields. In addition to works selected for the Seoul Foundation’s support projects, works presented in Seoul last year and actively working disabled artists were newly eligible for the Jury Special Awards. Among the six selected works for the Porsche Frontier Awards, funded by Porsche Korea’s donations, one work will receive support for re-performance or re-exhibition. Detailed information about the Seoul Arts Awards can be found on the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture’s website.

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