The brand new dance survival program “Stage Fighter” is ready to dazzle viewers not solely with performances from a few of Korea’s most celebrated dancers, but in addition with appearances by auteur Park Chan-wook, this system’s producer mentioned Tuesday.
“Stage Fighter” is the newest installment in Mnet’s profitable dance survival sequence, following the hit reveals “Road Girl Fighter” and “Road Man Fighter.”
The brand new sequence will characteristic 64 male dancers specializing in Korean conventional dance, up to date dance, and ballet, competing in a sequence of challenges.
Introduced by singer Kang Daniel, who additionally hosted “Road Girl Fighter” and “Road Man Fighter,” this system will characteristic prime coaches together with former ballerina Kim Joo-won, Korean dance professionals Jung Bo-kyung and Kim Jae-seung, up to date dance professionals Choi Soo-jin and Seong Chang-yong, and ballerinos Ryu Hoi-woong and Han Seong-woo.
Producer Choi Jeong-nam mentioned {that a} main concern throughout the manufacturing of “Stage Fighter” was the notion that these sorts of dance, as classical artwork varieties, could be difficult for the viewers to understand.
To deal with this situation, Choi defined that he designed the primary missions to show elementary methods which might be simply comprehensible for everybody.
“For the primary mission, we centered on the key phrase ‘bodily approach audition,'” mentioned Choi, throughout a press convention in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Tuesday.
“As an alternative of specializing in (presenting) glamorous performances, we believed that emphasizing primary expertise and the methods derived from these fundamentals would make the present extra approachable,” he mentioned.
The present boasts a number of the most outstanding figures in Korea’s dance scene, together with Kim Joo-won, the previous principal dancer on the Korean Nationwide Ballet and the fourth Korean to win the celebrated Benois de la Danse prize.
Choi mentioned movie director Park Chan-wook, identified for his award-winning movies like “Choice to Go away,” “Outdated Boy,” and “The Handmaiden,” would seem within the sequence.
“There’s a mission by which the dancers will bodily interpret director Park’s works by their actions. That’s why he’s making an look. I hope the viewers will tune in to see it throughout the broadcast,” he mentioned.
The primary episode of “Stage Fighter” is scheduled to broadcast on Mnet on Tuesday, 10 p.m.
