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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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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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BAKS conference report: looking forward / looking back

12 September 2008 BAKS
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The 2008 BAKS conference at Clare College Cambridge started and finished with talks with a distinctly global flavour. People came from the four corners of the globe, with presenters from New Zealand, Singapore, Hawaii, Germany and the US. And we were also fortunate to have the support of the ROK ambassador, Chun Young-woo, plus the [...]

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Sun, percussion, and yang energy

11 June 2008 Dano 2008
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Jennifer Barclay celebrates her first anniversary with LKL with her report from the second Dano Korean Summer Festival
The sound of percussion crept around Trafalgar Square as a strange vehicle circled the fountains and wheeled into view: a tall Mad Max-style contraption with coloured flags waving from poles, people dressed in black and orange hanging off [...]

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