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
Book Design & Editorial Design