Dance, Dance, Dance

Dance, Dance, Dance is a 342-print drypoint master set composed into stop-motion animation, making it the longest of Lee's animations from the early 2010s. The title borrows the threefold repetition common to dance and music titles—possibly nodding to Haruki Murakami's 1988 novel of the same name—and signals an interest in repetition itself as form, reinforced by the sheer accumulation of frames. Each plate is scratched with a drypoint needle, raising a burr whose velvet line softens with each impression; across 342 sequential prints, the cumulative wear becomes an embedded chronology of the work's own making. The piece extends a method Lee was developing across Walk 2010 and Hana's Ride: discrete print frames composed into continuous movement, with the labor of printmaking made visible rather than hidden. Dance is well suited to this method because it is itself a sequence of repeated, slightly varied gestures—a structural rhyme between the moving body and the moving printed image.