This is your Life
Universal Ballet Premiere | Universal Arts Center on June 9, 2011 |
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Choreography | Youngsoon Hue |
Music | Gabe and Piazolla |
Costume Design | Bohwa Song |
Lighting Design | Kyungwon Seo |
Running Time | 20 minutes |
A recollection of the common experiences of human life in the flavor of a 1960’s television show.
This is Your Life is reminiscent of the 1950’s and the US television talk show with the same title. The host of the show introduces each of the contestants and invites them to share their experiences with us. Through Youngsoon Hue’s storytelling choreography, each of them, in turn tells us about their lives: the perfect suburban couple, the overworked businessman trying to live up to his parents’ expectations, the hairdresser who says he can make any woman beautiful, the lovers struggling with their relationship, the girl who worries about her boyfriend being too popular and too handsome… This is Your Life was created in 2008 for Tulsa Ballet. The love pas de deux has been performed in many ballet galas in Europe. Youngsoon Hue received the Korean Dance Critic Prize in 2009 for This is Your Life. The work has been performed by Tulsa Ballet (USA), Aalto Theatre Essen (Germany), and Ankara National Ballet (Turkey), making Universal Ballet the fourth company to perform it. Universal Ballet performed This is Your Life in 2009 as part of the Seoul International Theater Festival. Universal Ballet performs this ballet in 2011 as its regular season repertory.