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Dano 2007

Dano Festival – Trafalgar Square

by Philip Gowman on 8 May, 2008

in Dano 2007, Dano 2008, LKL.tv

The scheduled Dano Festival 2008 in Trafalgar Square is one month away: Sunday 8 June.
To whet the appetite, here’s the official video (10 minutes) from last year’s event:

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Some spectacular photos from Dano 2007

6 July 2007 Dano 2007

I just got an email from Samuel Cho telling me about the photos he took at the Trafalgar Square Dano festival a couple of weeks ago. His site is well worth a visit. Some great photos of the b-boys and the taekwondo display, as well as some colourful pics of the procession. And of a [...]

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More pictures from the Dano festival

23 June 2007 Dano 2007

Many thanks to Katie, Mark and Sung-min for letting me use their pictures of the Dano festival last Sunday. Mark has uploaded a full set of his photos over at the Korean Language Meetup site. Go visit the gallery – there are some other good photos over there too. I’ll also be asking people to [...]

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Please send in your Dano photos – particularly b-boy action shots

19 June 2007 Dano 2007

As you may have gathered, I didn’t make it to the Dano event in Trafalgar Square on Sunday. But it would be great to get a flavour of what it all looked like. Jennifer’s great post yesterday helped, but it would be fun if you could send in any photos you have. I’ll decorate yesterday’s [...]

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Rivers dance for Dano

18 June 2007 B-boys
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A roving reporter’s account of yesterday’s Trafalgar Square Dano festivities
by Jennifer Barclay
with photos mostly by Jeon Sung-min (photo of the b-boys by Katie)

It was a grey day on Sunday 17 June; but I donned a slightly sparkling T-shirt and set out for Trafalgar Square for the first ‘Korea, Sparkling’ Dano festival to be held there. [...]

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Some videos to persuade you to come to Trafalgar Square on Sunday

14 June 2007 B-boys

Korean open-air Dano (early summer) Festival, Trafalgar Square, Sunday 17 June, 12-6pm
First, here’s Team Kroniculs, aka the Jaguar Demo, who will be participating in the Taekwondo display. It’s not just martial arts they do:
Next, here’s the Korean b-boy crew Rivers:
They’ll be battling against the UK’s Bad Taste Cru. Here’s b-boyTime:
There will be some Samulnori percussion [...]

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From Fan dance to Breakdance for Dano festival

27 May 2007 B-boys

For those who missed the Korean breakdancers when they came to London earlier this year, the Rivers crew from Korea (left) will be battling it out with the Bad Taste Cru from the UK in Trafalgar Square on June 17.
It’s all part of a unique event to celebrate Dano, the Korean early summer festival. Over [...]

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