The Emotional Society on Stage

Workers in the area of modern service industry are required to perform not merely physical labor, but also emotional labor. Hyejung Cho and Sookhyun Kim interviewed those who are called emotional laborers and recorded the role-playing performed by dancers representing these labors. In capitalist society, the human nature of emotions and feelings, such as joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure, are reified as ‘service,’ which leads to the distortion of natural feelings and behaviors.