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Body Dance by CHOLIM

“Just like a quick muscle movement with an invisible signal,
I felt a lively movement in their bond as one.”


I dedicate this book to Hyeonhee and Minsu,
who helped me capture the pure heart within me.



Story of Hyeonhee Cho


GROOVE LIKE NO ONE’S WATCHING

[1] Like Ahn Chihwan’s song, people are more beautiful than flowers, so everything is beautiful. “I hope everyone in the world can live dancing and singing.” It was a childhood wish. Stop dance and sing only in front of the mirror at the shower booth, but let’s just dance on the street.

[2] I think all movements come from emptying. We inevitably and constantly repeat the process of meeting, understanding, and removing a single world. The process is the progress and life of building another unique world. In my life, I have expanded and filled my universe by chewing and digesting all the universe I have met. I prove the words that are considered true through experience, digest them in my way, and empty them. And eventually, when I take out all of my own, my movement is completed. Meeting, life, humanity, dancing, objects, singing, poetry, drawing, life, eating, and drinking are the same in the end. The refreshing feeling is when you empty all the things you tried to understand and digest!


HYEONHEE CHO'S POINT OF VIEW ON MINSU LIM

A long-haired yogi man, his hobby is to travel in very wide clothes and skirt pants, and he can always leave here and there. Minsu is always reluctant to be like others. It seems that he continues to find his only thing while enjoying biased gaze. Minsu, who I know, always goes in his shape and steps that do not resemble anyone.



Story of Minsu Lim


YOGA

[1] Why yoga? I asked. It is a life that does everything with all its strength and sincerity. Yoga is the only act for me during the day when I lifted, wrote, carried, and pushed many things that were not me. I relax my body and mind, turn the lights off for a while in a world outside of me, and focus only on myself on the mat. I follow a repetitive sequence, naturally do so. I gasp and hold out. When I think ‘I hold out, I hold out, I hold out,’ my body is deepening without my awareness.

[2] I feel a great fear of teaching someone. I still feel that there are more parts to fill on my own, so I can’t afford to consider the other person’s shortcomings. Most people probably use something the value as an indicator of their lives and continue to run. But we’re not perfect yet, and we probably can’t be perfect for the rest of our lives, and yet we’ll be thirsty for perfection. I believe it is life in itself to keep moving for a better tomorrow.

[3] Guru means teacher in Hindi. I think moving your body on your own is an entirely different matter. Guru should continue to learn a strict but generous attitude to others through personal training. He also thinks that everyone should always start at zero, and never forget that he is also zero. And he should always try to help those who start walking the same path stay in a safer and warmer world.






Body Dance by CHOLIM (Book Cover)
Softcover, elastic band, envelope containing an original image, 237 × 307 mm.
Self-publishing by Jinwoo Ju
Book Design & Editorial Design





Body Dance
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Body Dance
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Minsu and Hyeonhee
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Body Dance by CHOLIM Book
Self-publishing by Jinwoo Ju
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