The Many Facets of Korean Dance

The Many Facets of Korean Dance

            The performance at Munye theatre of twelfth Seoul Dance Festival Korean aristocrats (yang-ban) dance related to me because of understanding of how Korean gestures of dancer’s emotions and movements. The meaning behind the meandering stopped as the dancer placed both feet together, torso tilted forward a bit and knees slightly bent and dancer straiten one knee and lifted the other forward, an ankle bent and toes turn up, etc.  As I am reading I could hear the Koran music and vision the how dancer dancing. It stirs my emotion and making my body move in Korean dancing techniques (Zile 178).

South Korea has been practicing many styles of dance: traditional, ballet, modern dance, experimental choreography, hip-hop, disco, improvisational dancing. I really would like to see how majority of North Korans are dancing and the what students are being taught in school. IN South Korean danced for royal court dance, and entertainment, simple pleasure of locals, and visiting dignitaries (Zile 178). Koreans holds pride in grand spectacles of how much wealth and power they have by how well they present in entertainment. Formally they were more male dancers than the women dancers (Zile 179).

Korean art of dance became substantively different during 618-935 period. Political movement brought interchange of Chinese and Korean. For an example, Chinese formal procession by individuals holding various kinds of standards precedes ad follows the dance, the name be announced, and the dance is interrupted for a brief song sung. On the other hand, Korean dance begin with a bow to the king and brief song in Korean praying for happiness, and end with a bow to the king, but there are standard bearers or processions (Zile 179).

Among many other dances, there are royal court dance, Confucianism dance, farmer dance, monk dance, festival dance, warrior dance and generally the costume is colorful. Dances of slow shoulders movements, expression of sorrow, happiness, change of economic and political movements are in the dance.  Korean dance is practice in solo and group (Zile 180-184).

In 1963, Ewha Women’s University became the first university to successfully establish the four-year independent dance department in Korea. They have taught to motivated young modern dancers to develop the skills to carry out the dance. The support from the governments, non-governments have pay for the costumes and rehearsal places for dancers. The powerful dance of Korean is fourth contributor and is the National Treasure System (Zile 182-188). 

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코아트 koart 국악감상 한국무용 여명의빛국수호 , 국립무용단

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRaOFU8ARRg

Taepyeongmu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzk0RzztC60

SALPURI (KOREAN SHAMANIC DANCE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRo6V4aUc8