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Nanta, or Cookin', is a non-verbal performance of reckless rhythms that dramatize customary Korean percussion in a strikingly comedic stage show. Integrating uniquely Korean traditional tempos with a western performance style, Nanta storms onto stage with a huge kitchen where four capricious cooks are preparing a wedding banquet. For more information, please visit the Web site.
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The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts (NCKTPA) held 5 pm every Saturday is the longest running regular program in Korea. The repertoise includes about 95 works of diverse genres, from court music & dance, folk music & dance, pansori samulnori to creative music. The NCKTPA's music ensembles and dance troupes perform 8 works during each performance. An English version of the program is available.
Place Ye-ak Dang, NCKTPA
Tickets A-10,000 won / B-8,000 won
(50% discount with student ID card)
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The Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles offers a Korean language learning program. The focus of the program is given not only to the language but also history, customs, and cultures of Korea. There are six classes according to different levels. Class hours are 7 to 9 pm, every Tuesday. The program continues from Jan. 9 till Dec. 18, 2007 For more information, please visit the Web site.
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Located near Korean Folk Village, Gyeonggi Korean Traditional Music Center regularly hosts Korean traditional artists and offers the local people peculiar flavor of Korean traditional music and dance. From a part, for the year of 2007, it presents the regular performance entitled, “Saturday Concerts for Korean Music and Dance” at 3:30 p.m. every Saturday with a wide variety of repertoires which are different from week to week. The venue can be reached by bus 5500-1 from Gwanghwamun Station, 1560 and 5001-1 from Gangnam Station, 1116 from Jamsil Station. For more info, contact (www.ggad.or.kr or 031-289-6421~4).
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With the preparatory period of 3 years and 7 months, the musical JUMP is a non –verbal performance based on Taekwondo, a traditional Korean martial art. The musical JUMP that will make the audience laugh and applaud through out the performance was given a favorable reception as it earned the top box office award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005.
Its popularity was also reflected in tickets sales: In February, its tickets were sold out almost everyday at the Peacock Theater (1,000 seats). The musical will show advanced movements, used from Taekwondo, acrobatic, and Taekkyeon (Korean traditional martial art) along with non-verbal music in a harmonious way.
This musical tells about an eccentric family who brags about their amazing martial art skills. It begins with a man who’s in love with the daughter of this family and visits their home in which the lady’s grandfather, father, mother and uncle, all live together and are all masters of martial arts. Since her grandfather loved to practice martial arts with all the family members every day, the man had no choice but to join them.
However, contrary to his weak appearance, he discovers that he is actually good at martial arts and the daughter begins to fall in love with him. One day, two thieves, not knowing anything about the family, broke into the house, but there was nothing for them to steal. All they could do was just run away before they got caught.
As JUMP continues to present endless comic episodes, you definitely won’t feel bored. Instead you may feel like you’re watching a real live TV sitcom drama. The non-verbal musical is also open to audiences of all ages from various countries.
The musical starts its opening scene in the audience seats by selecting a master of martial arts among the audience. Since going without any prior expectations, each performance will give a whole new feeling. The audiences can double their enjoyment during the performance, hoping to be selected as a master of martial arts.
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"Wedding" is held everyday at 4 p.m. at Gyeonggi Korean Traditional Music Center. "Wedding" is a traditional Korean music and dance performance combining "tradition" with "fun." Programs are divided into two sections. Part 1 is a combination of traditional Korean music and dance performance including Hamryoengjigok (music for wind instruments, used as court dance accompaniment and military music during the Joseon dynasty), Ogomu (dance and drumming of 5 drums), Samulnori (Korean percussion quartet) and Fan dance (diverse and very feminine choreography). In the interlude between Part 1 and 2, a comical magic show will be performed. Part 2 is a dramatization of a traditional wedding entitled, "A Wedding in the Snow." It is a comic drama in the form of a non-verbal performance featuring authentic Korean music and traditional dance movements with modern dance and acrobatics. Designed to introduce Korean traditional culture to foreigners, many ceremonies of traditional Korean wedding procedure are faithfully reconstructed within the drama.
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The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts provides classes of Korean traditional music and dance for foreigners living in Korea to help them better understand traditional culture through experience. The entire program will be conducted mostly in Korean by professional performers of NCKTPA but English will also be used for those do not understand Korean. The instruments necessary for the lesson will be leased during the class except for those need to be used privately (bamboo flute and dance shoes). On the last day of this 12-week program, participants will have a chance to give a presentation on the stage of NCKTPA and see congratulatory performance by performers of NCKTPA.
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The 28-year old and one of the longest regular performance titled "A Performance of Pansori Master Singers" is scheduled to be held at 3 p.m. on every last saturday in each month in 2007. The performance organized by the National Changgeuk Company of Korea is done at the National Theater of Korea's Daloreum Hall. Tickets price from 10,000 won to 20,000 won. For more information, contact the organizer (2274-1172). |
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Gallery Korea, located at the Korean Cultural Service in New York City, has extended its hours. The new hours of the gallery are from 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. It is also open from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on weekdays and from 10:00am to 4:00pm on Saturdays while exhibitions are on display only for those who made reservations.
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"A rock musical that rewrote the history of Korean theater"
- Berliner Morgenpost
"At the end of the show, one feels completely overwhelmed. A riveting story, beautiful music, and outstanding performance, everything is still so vivid."
- Beijing Times
"The Korean musical Line 1 gave us pleasure beyond imagination"
- People’s Daily
"The lives of people in Seoul today, struggling to survive in a society full of contradictions, are unfolded on stage before our very eyes. I think I am beginning to understand the secret behind the success of this musical."
- Asahi Shimbun |
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