Photo by Halline Overby for the LA Phil

GYOPO x LA Phil Insight

Diasporic Refractions

June 8th 2025 at Walt Disney Concert Hall Garden

Composition, Performance and Costume by Sharon Chohi Kim

Diasporic Refractions is a site-responsive performance that investigates the concert hall as site and symbol, and questions what it means to belong and perform within an institutional space. Drawing on themes of cultural dissonance and fractured musical identity, the piece enacts a physical and sonic deconstruction of Walt Disney Concert Hall’s architecture.