In the final presentation of her residency, Mami Kang will share the outcome of her research.
Mami Kang is a choreographer and artist born in Japan and currently based in Amsterdam. Her performances often embody hybrid, quasi-fictional figures emerging from Korean diasporic experience. Navigating states of visibility, ambiguity, and cultural memory, she conjures transformative presences that resist fixed narratives, giving riseto uncanny sensations and hauntological traces of identity.A graduate of the SNDO - School for New Dance Development (2019), where she now teaches movement research, Kang has presented her work internationally in theater, gallery, and site-responsive contexts.
Research
After immersive study in Noh theatre in Kyoto, Mami Kang begins a long-term research project into spectral embodiment, focusing on how the body appears and disappears, shifting between the tangible and the imagined, memory and illusion.Attuned to Noh’s poetic language of revelation and concealment, Kang engages with it as a resonant form for her ongoing research into fragmented identity. Inspired by mugen Noh’s phantasmic dramaturgy, she explores how ghostly figures, together with its embodied vocabulary, echo through choreographic practice today. Embracing opacity, living pauses, and disidentification, the research listens for what remains unspoken, inviting choreography to hold space for suspension, reverie, and disappearance.
