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Category Archives: Thames Festival 2007

Pictures from the Thames Festival

20-Sep-07
Thanks to Tristan Kinslow for letting me post some of his photos of the Korean Village last weekend's Thames Festival. View the rest of the photos at Tristan's flickr account. And here's one of the lantern procession, from the London SE1 site: Related posts:Weekend events: modern dance and the Thames Festival First, thanks to Colin Bartlett for letting me know...More pictures from the Dano festival Many thanks to Katie, Mark and Sung-min for letting...Some good pictures Firstly, some photos from 1970s Seoul. Commentary on Antti Leppänen’s... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Weekend events: modern dance and the Thames Festival

14-Sep-07
First, thanks to Colin Bartlett for letting me know about Korean dancers from the Robin Howard Dance Theatre performing at The Place, near Euston. We've already missed one of the performances, which was yesterday evening: Jin-Yeob Cha, who has worked with a variety of Korean and international choreographers, including Ismael Ivo, Itzik Galili, Iztok Kovac, Kristine Jomalade, Dominique Porte (Montreal Dance Company), Micha Purucker and Katja Wachter. Saturday night the cast will include Sun-A Lee, whose solo won the French Embassy Young Choreographer's Prize in this year's Yokohama Dance Collection. Performing Dream concerns a dancer's insomnia brought about by the building pressure to perform the following day. To get an idea of the style of dance, watch this clip. You are warned ...

Sarangbang! at the Thames Festival

02-Sep-07
A two-day participation in the Mayor's Thames Festival on the South Bank near Tower Bridge. You can expect the normal Korean food and information tents. But in the Korean Village this time you can turn your hand at making Korean paper lanterns (pre-booking required) or attend a woodblock printing class. There's a grand parade on the Sunday evening where you can show off your lanterns. Korean experimental artists will perform street art on the theme of The River throughout the event. And Dulsori will be performing on Sunday afternoon in the "Scoop" (the pit in front of Red Ken's building), plus at random times on the Saturday. Here's the full agenda: Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September In the "Korean Village" 12pm-9.30pm Korean Cultural ...