© Jung Jae Pil  

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Humanity started sending messages into space about 50 years ago—our DNA, Earth’s location, even a Beatles song.

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You are invited to Cosmic Dance to vote for the dance that will be sent into space in 2025.

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As representatives of Earth, we choose a dance. Our choice might even change the future of humanity.

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If we were to tell other life forms in the universe about our existence through dance, what kind of dance should we perform?

Cosmic Dance is a performance where the audience and dancers create a “dance to send into space” together. It begins with one question: “What kind of dance should we send to space?” The answers from the audience become the base for the performance. Through this process, the work explores how the meaning of dance can be shared and understood within a community.

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During the show, the audience takes part in live voting on their phones. Their choices directly shape the Cosmic Dance, so each performance is created in a new way, depending on the audience’s views and decisions. Cosmic Dance experiments with how humans can accept different ideas and stay connected, offering a vision of living together in harmony.

In Cosmic Dance, the performance presents many kinds of dances: historically important dances, dances that anyone might recognize as dance, and even movements that may not usually be called dance. In every scene, the audience uses their mobile phones to vote in real time on questions that create the dance. The results appear instantly on the screen, and through these choices the audience builds one shared “Cosmic Dance.” Because of this, the work never repeats in the same way—it is always created differently together with the audience.

The choreographic intention is not only to “show” dance but to invite the audience as co-creators of the performance rather than passive spectators. By asking questions such as “What is dance to humans, and what makes something a dance?” the work explores the essence of dance while also revealing collective consciousness and the power of shared choices in our time.