Subverted Anatomical Landscape
SAL (Subverted Anatomical Landscape) is an interdisciplinary arts company founded in Seoul in 2021 by choreographer and director Jinho Bae.
SAL (Subverted Anatomical Landscape) is an interdisciplinary arts company founded in Seoul in 2021 by choreographer and director Jinho Bae.
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5—6 Dec 2026 NOS DESIRS FONT DESORDRE
(Our desires make disorder)His work explores the darkness embedded within human experience and the radiance that can emerge through confronting it. Drawing from personal memories, loss, anxiety, anger, and longing, he creates
TICKETSHaeoreum Grand Theater
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19—28 Sep 2025 Bad Spicy Sauce
His work explores the darkness embedded within human experience and the radiance that can emerge through confronting it. Drawing from personal memories, loss, anxiety, anger, and longing, he creates
TICKETSDaehangno Arts Theater
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19—28 Sep 2025 Bad Spicy Sauce
His work explores the darkness embedded within human experience and the radiance that can emerge through confronting it. Drawing from personal memories, loss, anxiety, anger, and longing, he creates
TICKETSDaehangno Arts Theater
Artistic Director
JINHO BAE
Jinho Bae is a South Korean choreographer, director, and founder of SAL (Subverted Anatomical Landscape), an interdisciplinary arts company founded in 2021.His work explores the darkness embedded within human experience and the radiance that can emerge through confronting it. Drawing from personal memories, loss, anxiety, anger, and longing, he creates performances that transform intimate experiences into physical landscapes. At the core of his artistic practice is the philosophy of “The Radiance of Liberated Humanity.”
Bae is the creator of MAGI, an original movement methodology that prioritises sensation, impulse, and the body’s autonomous responses over prescribed form. Through MAGI, he investigates the relationship between subconscious experience and physical expression.
He studied Korean Dance at the Korea National University of Arts, trained at The Ailey School in New York through its Scholarship Program (2014-2015), and completed coursework at NYU Steinhardt in 2014. He later earned both his BFA and MFA from the Korea National University of Arts.
His works have been presented at festivals including SIDance, MODAFE, Festival International de Danse SOUM Paris, SAI Dance Festival Tokyo, and X Realm Festival Hong Kong. As a performer, he appeared in Silicone Valley (2019) by Shahar Binyamini and Animal In (2024) by Andrea Costanzo Martini.
Bae received the Critics’ Choice Dance Festival Best Choreographer Award (2022), the Korean Dance Arts Award for Performance (2024), and the Korean Dance Critics Association Best Work Award (2025). In 2025, he became the youngest choreographer selected for ARKO Arts Creation: New Work, a major commissioning program supported by Arts Council Korea (ARKO). In 2026, he was commissioned as the youngest choreographer to create a new work for the National Dance Company of Korea.
About SAL
SAL (Subverted Anatomical Landscape) is an interdisciplinary arts company founded in Seoul in 2021 by choreographer and director Jinho Bae.
SAL approaches the body as a living landscape. Beneath the skin lie organs, neurological impulses, memories, emotions, and unconscious drives that surface in movement before thought can name them. The company’s work begins by bringing these invisible movements to the surface.
The name SAL combines the Korean word for “flesh” with the idea of a Subverted Anatomical Landscape. Rather than viewing the body as a fixed structure, SAL understands it as a shifting terrain where sensation, memory, desire, and instinct are constantly in motion.
For SAL, choreography is not the arrangement of movement but a way of revealing what is embedded within the body. Through movement, the company explores the relationship between physicality, memory, emotion, and human vulnerability. Its works confront darkness not as an end point, but as a passage toward the radiance that can only be found beyond it.
This pursuit is guided by SAL’s central philosophy: The Radiance of Liberated Humanity.
The company’s creative process is informed by MAGI, an original movement methodology developed by Jinho Bae. MAGI prioritises the body’s autonomous responses, investigating movement through heightened sensation, liberated impulse, and subconscious awareness.
SAL creates works that invite audiences into an encounter with the body’s hidden landscapes, awakening sensations, memories, and forces that exist beyond language.
Productions
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To acknowledge the enduring space in which desire is continuously displaced, distorted, and transformed; to investigate the mechanisms that govern such desire; and, ultimately, to move toward the liberation of the subject.
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Bad Spicy Sauce
The moment we meet and touch another person, the body becomes more than a sensory instrument, it turns into a field of exchange, releasing its own substances while absorbing those of another.
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KILL
<KILL> unfolds these dark, complex emotions and impulses hidden deep within us, examining how we confront one another, search for coexistence, and continue to live together.
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To acknowledge the enduring space in which desire is continuously displaced, distorted, and transformed; to investigate the mechanisms that govern such desire; and, ultimately, to move toward the liberation of the subject.
Workshop
Subverted Anatomical Landscape
SAL (Subverted Anatomical Landscape) is an interdisciplinary arts company founded in Seoul in 2021 by choreographer and director Jinho Bae.
Subverted Anatomical Landscape
SAL (Subverted Anatomical Landscape) is an interdisciplinary arts company founded in Seoul in 2021 by choreographer and director Jinho Bae.
Subverted Anatomical Landscape
SAL (Subverted Anatomical Landscape) is an interdisciplinary arts company founded in Seoul in 2021 by choreographer and director Jinho Bae.
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There are many ways to become a partner in SAL's journey, vision, and realization. Regardless of the size of your contribution, every act of support makes it possible for us to continue exploring, creating, and moving.
Since its founding in 2021, SAL has established a distinctive artistic presence within Korea's contemporary dance landscape through selections for major national creative support programs and a sustained commitment to original creation. Engaging audiences each season, SAL continues to explore the landscape of the body and transform unconscious impulses into a language of movement. This work is sustained through ongoing research, experimentation, and the support that makes such artistic inquiry possible.