[CHOA's Short-terview 12-2] "We make every possible mistake in advance" — how a top-tier show gets made! Nirvana Ssun short-terview (2) @ssunstyle

“You keep tweaking and tweaking, and in the end it comes right back to the same thing.”

CONTEXTOn how she keeps reworking a performance's structure only to land back on the original

“In rehearsal, every mistake that could possibly happen — we make all of them on purpose. We're the type to live through all of those mistakes and only then perform. At least when there's acrobatics involved.”

On how they rehearse for performances with acrobatic elements.

“To the people watching it looks easy, but building that took so many injuries, so many failures, so much work.”

Talking about finishing the moves through injuries to wrists, elbows, shoulders, back and more.

“The picture we have in our heads is a move way harder than it looks. Try it and you'll see — it's genuinely hard.”

CONTEXTExplaining that the finished moves in a performance are harder than anyone imagines.

“The person doing it can be sweating bullets the whole time, but the people watching have to feel completely at ease.”

On the performance philosophy of making a genuinely hard move look effortless to the audience.

“If the audience is watching on edge, the artistic value of it drops.”

Stressing that a performance only holds its artistic value when the audience feels safe.

“The motto of the show is to move people. Even the faintest tremor — I want the audience to feel some small movement inside.”

Talking about the core value they chase when making a performance.

“A time you loved someone, a time your heart broke, a time you were happy — I want to make shows that give you that little stir in your chest, the one that brings the moment back for a second.”

On the emotional echo they want a performance to leave with the audience.

“I want to do performances where you can see the music just by watching.”

Summing up her ideal of what a performance should be, in one sentence

“These days I'm taking heels choreo and waacking, working on making bachata lady even more magnetic — more lethal.”

Explaining how she's been folding other genres into her training to grow her expressive range as a bachata lady