With post/butoh dance, vocals, and philosophy, Min Yoon makes intimate, surreal, and psychophysical performances and experimental moments of heightened complex / relational emotions. Min’s dance collages intense imagery, physicality, stillness, and ritual. Min researches unintentional / subconscious movements with impulsive improvisation – to explore difficult truths beyond language and inherited social knowledge.
Min describes their method as Butoh / post/butoh / Butoh, expanding butoh dance with social questions, conflict studies, and embodied inquiries. Min dances with the question of whether butoh dance is mimicking patterns of oppression, and… what is the dance needed today.
“Not for the attention-seeking economy”, Min’s butoh+ experimental dance and vocal works process what feels more subconscious /unknown in being human such as around pain and violence, to grieve, reveal nuanced truths around the depths of emotions, experiences, and perspectives, and look for new expressions.
Min’s art works have been funded by NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (npn) in Germany, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Musikfonds, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, The City of Oakland, The Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, with other artist residencies and grants. Min has also been a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U Berlin) and an artcorps scholar at the Tamalpa Institute founded by Daria and Anna Halprin.