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Mo Ji-min, School of Dance, Presents Romeo and Juliet and more

Mo Ji-min, an alumnus of the School of Dance and one of the most famous drag artists in the country of the contemporary time, staged a special performance, Romeo and Juliet and more, at the LG Arts Center from 20 to 23 September. For the performance, Mo, as neither a woman nor a man, wore toe shoes with shaved hair and called More’s Juliet to the stage.

The work is one of the outcomes of the Creator’s Box project by the LG Arts Center which aimed to collaborate with creators from different fields. It is a theatrical dance piece that twists William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. For the 70-minute running time, the performance portrays a tragic love story of two lovers with ballet and modern dance movements without words. Mo Ji-min played Juliet in the show. In the production process, he also took charge of planning and directing choreography.

In 2019, Mo Ji-min played the main character in the musical, “13 Fruitcakes,” which commemorated the 50^th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York. In 2020, for the first time for a drag artist, he performed at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. More (2021), a documentary film starring him, won a documentary award at the Grand Bell Awards.