A one-hour solo performance both scripted and improvised, goo is an offering to you: an attempt to engage with family archives hilariously plays out as Yun Lee fails to connect to the contents of a book written by their grandmother Yeon-Ok Kim. goo channels tangential affective and linguistic impulses that spiral out of oral histories, incomplete memories, sensations both felt, imagined, and made up. It brings out the vulnerable side of family history of migration, separation, and alienation. There’s plenty of longing, feeling of loss, explosion of anger, reaching through incomprehension. There’s love, excavated in the process of making the work, the kind that permeates three generations despite the trauma and forgetting—

Yun Lee (she/they) is a performer and choreographer from Seoul. Since training and dancing with Trust Dance Theatre, Lee has been making performances that interweave fragments of family history, cultural heritage, and archival text, processing and reimagining the material with feeling bodies through a postcolonial, queer, feminist lens. Lee’s work in dance, physical theater, and video led them to work with Young-Cool Park and Jang Sumi upon graduating from Yonsei University with a degree in Comparative Literature. In 2023, Lee received a scholarship to participate in danceWEB in the frame of ImpulsTanz Festival. Since then, they have relocated to the US as an MFA candidate and teaching fellow at Smith College. In 2025, they will present work at Movement Research at Judson Church, School of Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, and What’s a Dancework in Seoul.