Bodybox / Dusk to Dawn
Baptized in a Public Bathhouse 목욕탕에서 세례받는 몸들
Jang Huddle
About the work
Cindy Yunha 윤하’s performance engages with the rituals of South Korea’s public bathhouses, exploring cleansing as both care and ceremony. She examines how knowledge is passed across generations, how the body is attended to, and how repetitive acts of scrubbing and bathing create intimate connections between water, skin, and self. The work unfolds as a meditative bathing ritual, where the body expands, softens, and opens before being “baptized” by streams of water from shower, bath, and bucket. Participants can experience this ritual directly, learning to scrub themselves or being gently scrubbed by the artist, while hearing about the cultural significance of these everyday acts. Through this immersive practice, the performance reflects on ritual, repetition, and the profound intimacy of care, creating a shared, contemplative space where body, water, and self converge.
About the artist
Jang Huddle
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Cindy Yunha 윤하 is a 1.5-generation Korean–Aotearoa (New Zealand) choreographer and community arts advocate based in Auckland. She creates immersive, multidisciplinary works that blend contemporary movement with various mediums, often centering diasporic narratives.
Cindy Yunha works across both professional and community settings, welcoming trained dancers as well as those new to movement. Her choreographic practice is shaped by lived experience, community engagement, and experimentation across forms.