A festival of Korean performing arts in aid of Kingston Hospital:
Programme
- Opening with 길놀이 ‘Street play with drum parade’
KCA and Oyun dance troupe 태평소 (Taepyeongso) – Seayool Kim - 사물놀이 ‘Samulnori’
Jeunghyun Choi, Minjin Kim, Miran Kim, Hoja Son, Youri Choi, Youny Moon, Yeji Kim - 사회 Youny Moon (사물놀이 복장)
- 궁중의 아침 ‘Morning in the Palace’
Kyung-hwa Lee, Seonhwa Jeong and Little Oyun
* 사회자가 보면서 통역및 해설 - 태평무 ‘Tae Pyung Moo’ Minjin Kim, Hyungsoo Yim
- 가야금 산조 ‘Gayaguem Sanjo’ Jieun Jung
Janggu- Seayool Kim - 사회 Youny Moon
- 설장구 ‘Sul Janggu’ Ingu Jung
- 가야 와 메직 ‘KAYA & MAGIC’ Jieun Jung, Yollin Lee
- 사회 Youny Moon
- 진도북춤 ‘Jindo Drum Dance’ KCA & Oyun
- 강강룰래 ‘Ganggangsullae’ KCA – Audience may join the dance troupe towards the end of final performance.
- Farewell Greeting by Sun Hwa Griffiths
Performers
Kyung-hwa Lee (이경화)
Doctor of Science, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ohyeon Cultural Arts Foundation in Korea. Received the Presidential Award for Myeongmu-Sogochum. Received the Award for Merit for Overseas Publicity Salpuri Dance, National Intangible Cultural Heritage
Hyung Soo YIM (임형수)
Director of Korean Culture and Arts.
Hyung Soo is passionate about his traditional Korean heritage, whether through his culinary artistry or through ancient art form of Music and Dance.
Ji Eun Jung (정지은)
BA in Korean Traditional Music at Ewha Woman’s University. Initiator of Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Asset No.23 Sanjo in the style of Jook Pa Kim. Chairwoman of Korean Artist Association UK. Director of KAYA (Korean Crossover Music Ensemble).
Jeong In-gu (정인구)
Jeong In-gu Seoljanggo is the personal story played by Jang Go-su in the nongak pangut. He is the first master of Nongaksu. ‘Seol’ means ‘the best’, and in Gyeongnam Nongak (Farmers music of south east province of Korea), it is called sujango.
Minjin Kim (김민진)
Minjin has been a member of the Seoul Performing Arts Troupe, under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, for several years. Her dance is in the style of that is light, elegant, long-lasting, refined, and above all, emotionally controlled. Deep understanding of diversity and people, she currently teaches Korean dance at the Korea Arts and Culture Institute in UK.
Jeung-Hyun Choi (최증현)
Jeung-Hyun Choi is a Korean traditional percussion player, Pansori singer and currently working as Samulnori Percussion Instructor in the UK. And she trained by Korean Intangible Asset No. 9, Dong-ok Seon, trained of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No.11 Jin-ju Sam-cheon-po 12th Poong-mul.
Seonhwa Jeong (정선화)
Vice President of Ohyeon Culture and Arts Center Byeongcheon Park, executive director of the jindo Drum Dance Preservation Association Dance Research Institute, Korea Institute of Traditional Culture Inheritor of `Cheoyongmu’, a national intangible cultural asset registered by UNESCO. Former Director of Hwaseong City Cultural Foundation
Hoja Son (손호자)
Leader of Fandance troupe of Korean Culture and Arts UK. Hoja is the owner of Seoul Bakery, a Korean cafe in London. She joined the Korean Arts Centre in 2016 and has been continuously attending Korean dance and music lessons since then.
SeaYool Kim (김시율)
(Piri player-guest musician)
A composer, music director, and innovative piri (Korean Traditional Bamboo Instrument) performer, SEAYOOL creates sensory compositions that carve out his unique artistic world.
Yollin Lee (이열린)
(Magician guest performer)
International Magic Champion (England, France, Spain, and Korea). Biggest Europe Magic Show Tour “C’est La Magie”. Edinburgh Fringe Festival Sell-out Show Magician.
Samulnori 이음새 사물노리
Jeunghyun Choi, Minjin Kim, Miran Kim, Hoja Son, Youri Choi, Youny Moon, Yeji Kim
Little Oyun 리틀오연
Sooyeon Wi (Seongnam girls’ middle school), Seojin Yoon (Cheonggye middle school), Yi-jeong Jeong (HS Sejeong middle school), Juyoon Kim (Seongseo middle school), Jeeyoo Kim (Sungbok middle school)