The Breath of Sinawi places two branches of salpuri-chum, the dance of release passed down through the Honam region, on one stage. Honam Salpuri-chum, carrying the lineage of the Choi Seon school designated as Jeonbuk State Intangible Cultural Heritage, meets Min-salpuri-chum of the Jang Geum-do tradition, Kim Kyung-ran school, which descends from the Sohwa Gwonbeon of Gunsan. One dance fills space with the composed line of a silk scarf; the other reveals emptiness through the restraint of bare hands. Two lineages transmitted differently within the same Jeonbuk salpuri flow side by side in contrast. At the center is Yoo In-sang's sinawi - music made new in every moment, as the players listen and answer one another within a fixed jangdan. As music steps out of the accompanist's place it has long kept, music and dance meet as equals and continue as one flow, each shaping the other.

Kim Mi-seon, Seo Jung-sook, and Yoo In-sang are masters of Korean traditional dance and music who have breathed together for many years at the heart of Seoul Gyobang. Kim Mi-seon builds emotional density out of restraint and empty space. Seo Jung-sook inhabits the interior of tradition, choosing depth over display. Yoo In-sang leads the music with jangdan - the rhythmic cycles - that read the breath of the dance most closely. In The Breath of Sinawi, the three build a single stage together for the first time.