THE TWO KOREAS

> THE SINGING MOON DANCE OF THE TWO KOREAS

Rising Moon -a performance advocating for the peace between the two Koreas
Harris Theater George Manson University (4400 University Dr. Fairfax, VA 22030, USA)
Performance October 2, 2019
My Role-working as a Casting Director and Coordinator for a performance
performance, painting images, paintings

 

Rising Moon is a Korean contemporary dance performance performed by Nanuri Dance company based in South Korea. This performance is combined with the Korea Art of South Korea and North Korea which were developed respectively from the Joseon Dynasty(1392~1910) through the Korean war (1950) and the present. I collected lots of Korean paintings including 40 Joseon Dynasty’s artworks, 80 South/North Korean artworks, and 80 Korean children’s arts. The children’s arts displayed in the performance are from 40 Korean-American children in the United States and 40 Korean children in South Korea. Children artworks show to wish for peace on the Korean peninsula and also for world peace. Five dancers and three musicians express the image of Korean art. They showed the movement of children wishes.  

 

 

Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performers perform according to each piece of paintings which is shown as a stage setting through a beam projector.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performers

Seon-mi Kang/  Yea-ran Son/ Ju-hee pack/ Ye-hee pack/  Ye-hee Lee/   Hea-rim Jun/ Soon-pil Jeon/   Paik-Kwang Kim/ Chang-mo Lee

Nanuri Dance Company

Established in 2005, under the motto “Communicate and Share together” the Nanuri Dance Company (NDC) is a professional dance company that performs a diverse repertoire of traditional Korean dances including their own creative contemporary dances. Since 2010, the NDC has been focusing on unique performances and the development of educational programs in collaboration with experts from various genres such as dancers, actors and educators. The NDC aspires to produce and present sustainable and social Community Dance that will reach the local community audiences. 

 

 

Artists

Ki-hwan Son

Hong-Nyun Kim

 

 

Paintings

The artworks of North Korea and South Korea in the past, the present, and the future.

 

Part1 An artistic spirit that was one (Korea in the past)

Joseon Dynasty

 

Part2- Two-sided art of the North and South (Korea in the present)

South Korea

North Korea

 

Part3. -Pictures to meet in the future: Artworks of dreams of children

Future

 

 

Performance 

 

 

1 round. Joseon Dynasty (Korea in the past)

  Fan dance/ Flower dance/ Drum dance

 

2 round. Korea in the present (two-sided of the North and South)

   Developed Lion dance/  Hwangha-do Local Religious Events

 

3 round. Korea in the Future

   Modern dance (Han film)

 

 

 

The Process of Producing Performance

I express my sincere appreciation to all who helped with the performance and production of “Dance of the Two Koreas; Rising Moon