Hello

North Korea appears to many as an impalpable country, inhumane and completely closed off. Based on research and interviews, the interactive performance Hello questions superficial and one-sided assumptions about North Koreans.

In three differently designed rooms at Sophiensæle, visitors work in small groups to learn about the situation of various people whose mobile autonomy has been or continues to be restricted by the state. Using a specially developed system, the audiences find blind dates that tell semi-fictional stories aside from grand state acts, propaganda, parades and other showcase measures and give insights into everyday North Korean culture. Through music, movement, customs, games and food, Hello invites you to make encounters beyond political dividing lines, to rethink prejudices and to imagine the lives of North Koreans in more personal and complex ways.

How do political borders shape identities, and how are authoritarian regimes subverted? Between official narrative and personal experience, between the known and the underground, the performance also reveals invisible migration stories and hybrid biographies that connect North and South Korea and even extend to Europe.

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◎ Place & Date:

https://sophiensaele.com/en/stueck/hello

▶ Worldpremiere , Sophiensæle Berlin, 8th of October at 20:30 with German Sign Language Interpretation

▶ Further Shows at Sophiensæle Berlin, 9th of October at 20:30 with German Sign Language Interpretation

▶ 10th of October at 17:30 and 20:00 with German Sign Language Interpretation

▶ 11th of October at 15:30 and 18:00 with German Sign Language Interpretation

▶ 12th of October at 15:30 and 18:00 with German Sign Language Interpretation

+ For accessibility questions, please contact 030 27 89 00 30 or barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com.

◎ Credit

▶ ARTISTIC DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE: Olivia Hyunsin Kim

▶ ARTISTIC DIRECTION, LIGHT VIDEO: Jones Seitz

▶ DANCE, PERFORMANCE: Hyemi Jolee, Ji Sun Hagen, Jungsun Kim

▶ STAGES, COSTUME:Luca Plaumann

▶ SOUND ART: Tatiana Heuman

▶ DRAMATURGY: Maria Rößler

▶ STAGE, COSTUME COLLABORATION: Susi

▶TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Gilda Coustier – Gefährliche Arbeit

▶ DRAMATURGY: Maria Rößler

▶ OUTSIDE EYE: Marielle Schavan

▶ APP PROGRAMMING: bleeptrack and Leo G. Alonso

▶ ACCESS CONSULTING: Hyemi Jolee

▶ GUEST PERFORMANCE: Olivia Hyunsin Kim, Ji Sun Hagen

▶ PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Christo Schleiff

▶  ARTISTIC COLLABORATION: Somi Dubuque

▶ GRAPHIC DESIGN: Christian Cattelan

▶ GERMAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION (DGS): Aniella Tiedje, Mille Jepsen

▶  THANKS TO: JINBEOM, Kim Okin, Liana Kang, Mira Schmitz, Oh Eun Jeong, Robert R. Grund/ ZUSAMMEN-Hamhung e.V., Sun Mu, Yeom Haryong, Alma Arnoul, Leo Nagel, Aktion Mensch, Gefährliche Arbeit, Saram e.V., ehrliche Arbeit – freies Kulturbüro

▶ A production by Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and with funds from the Capital Cultural Fund. Thanks to Uferstudios, PSR Kollektiv and Theaterhaus Berlin. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.