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Yi Chuljin at Roehampton

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by Paul O'Kane on 21 December, 2009

in Dance, Event reports and reviews

After seeing Yi Chuljin’s Seung Mu & Salpuri Dance. Michaelis Theatre, Roehampton University, 2nd Dec. 2009. By Paul O’Kane.

To see Yi is to be freed, from the chair in which one is sitting, becoming somewhat elevated, and thereby rescued, both from this moment and from whatsoever culture we reluctantly and temporarily inhabit.
In his strangely [...]

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Photo Essay: Yin and Yang in Korean Dance

12 December 2009 Dance
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Jo Seong-hee captures Yi Chuljin and Nam Youngho in rehearsal with some stunning images. Text by the editor.
In a carefully-planned and stimulating collaboration at Roehampton, Yi Chuljin and Nam Youngho presented an evening of balances and contrasts, explicitly referencing Yin and Yang on several layers.
Most obviously, we had a male and a female performer, [...]

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Yi Chuljin returns

26 November 2009 Dance
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Yi (Lee) Chuljin is an exceptional Korean dancer who has perfected his Buddhist and Shaman-inspired repertories, including Seungmu (Korean Monk dance) and Salpuri (Korean Exorcism dance), which are generally regarded as the most highly accomplished and most aesthetic folk/stage dance forms in Korea. He is particularly known for emotion and aesthetic understanding that is incredibly [...]

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An evening with the Korean Artists Association – event report

24 October 2009 Dance
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Last summer, the Korean Artists Association put on an evening of performances at the Korean cultural centre. The evening was well attended and popular, but somehow you felt that they could do better. They came back 15 months later and did just that.
Recognising that the visual artists did not get much of a look-in last [...]

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A Love in Dream: Edinburgh’s must-see production

13 August 2009 Dance
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Every year Colin Bartlett goes to Edinburgh to sample the various productions at the Fringe, and makes a point of seeing the Korean talent. Each year I hope he’s going to write a survey of the various shows for LKL. This year, I’ve managed to intercept an email he wrote to a friend recommending Modl [...]

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Qi Masters in Broadgate Circle and the Scoop

14 July 2009 Dance
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Details of two upcoming outdoor events in the City, sponsored by the Innersound Foundation
Sunday 19th July 2009 – 1:00pm-2:00pm at “The Scoop” Riverside – Near Tower Bridge
Monday 20th July 2009 – 12:30pm & 5.45pm at The Broadgate Circle – Nearest Tube: Liverpool St
AN ANCIENT ENERGY DANCE
Qi Masters from South Korea are coming to London to [...]

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Contemporary Dance at Dulwich Picture Gallery

22 June 2009 Dance
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Dulwich Picture Gallery is hosting four performances of a contemporary dance production over two weekends in celebration of its new exhibition, The Polish Connection. The dance performance has been developed in relation to an installation by Antoni Malinowski. Working from the 18th Century portraits of King Stanislaw the vectors of the Polish King’s gaze are [...]

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Yi Chul Jin at Durham and SOAS

16 November 2008 Buddhism
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Details of two performances by one of Korea’s leading traditional dancers

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Dance Theatre ON and The True Story of Ah Q

5 November 2008 Dance
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A review of the dance event at Greenwich – visually impressive, but rather puzzling.

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Ah Q: Korean modern dance, Chinese story, Greenwich theatre

26 October 2008 Dance
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Hong Sungyop’s Dance Theatre ON presents
The Story of Ah Q
Dance Theatre ON’s UK premiere
Date: Tuesday 04 November 2008
Time: 7:30pm (70min without intermission)
Venue: LABAN, Creekside, London SE8 3DZ
Tickets: £15 / £10 (concessions)
Box Office 0208 469 9500 (via Greenwich Theatre)
Book online www.purchase-tickets-online.co.uk/peo22430/ (follow links to Laban Theatre)
Produced by Dance Theatre ON (co-production with LG Arts Center)
Supported by [...]

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Korean Artists at the Edinburgh Fringe

25 June 2008 B-boys
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I spotted that the Cho-in Theatre Company are putting on a performance at the KCC this coming Monday (30 June). A still from their production The Angel and the Woodcutter is shown on the right.
This notice got me thinking about the Edinburgh Fringe, which was choc-full of Korean talent last year. Same again this year, [...]

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Kayagum and dance at SOAS

6 November 2007 Dance

As part of the SOAS autumn concert series there’s a kayagum recital, with traditional and contemporary dance, on 19 November at 7pm.
Choi Jin (최진) : Evocative Korean Kayagum and Dance
Choi Jin is one of the most brilliant kayagum players in the Korean music world. As a well-known performer, she has given many concerts around the [...]

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Weekend events: modern dance and the Thames Festival

14 September 2007 Dance

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, [...]

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More Korean performances at Edinburgh Fringe

31 July 2007 B-boys

My recent post on Korean events at the Edinburgh Fringe seriously undersold the Korean involvement there. I was simply reproducing the publicity of one particular organisation – Korea@fringe. But that organisation is only responsible for the six acts I mentioned in my previous post. Thanks to Colin Bartlett for pointing this out. So here is, [...]

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Korean traditional dance at Asia House

25 July 2007 Dance
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Peter Corbishley reports on last week’s dance event at Asia House
Thanks to some unusual traffic your reviewer arrived late enough to get a front row seat for this unique performance of seven of eleven traditional Korean dances. ‘Exciting’, ‘beautiful’, ‘unexplored but most interesting’ were some of the words and phrases used to introduce this [...]

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