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Hwa Chub-GONG MUH DOH HWA - Korea
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| Time : |
Nov 10(Tue) 20:00
Nov 11(Wed) 20:00 |
| Venue : |
Arko Arts Theater Main Hall |
| Ticket Price : |
R : 30,000 won
S : 20,000 won |
| Choreographer : |
Mira Yoon |
| Company : |
MIRA DANCE COMPANY |
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'Five Colors' of Life represented by 'Five Flowers'
On people being more attractive than flowers...
From black to white...
(From black that symbolizes 'life' to white that is empty and gone like the waning sun and moon) |
Different colors for different phases in life. Expressing the process of reaching the state of nothingness and emptiness
Yoon Mira first presented her most recent work, Hwa Chub-Gong Muh Doh Hwa, at the Arko Arts Theater on July 5 and 6, 2008. The piece describes the process of Gongmu (or 'empty dance' in Chinese characters) crossing the bridge of flowers to reach a state of nothingness and emptiness. It was also presented at the 10th Shanghai Arts Festival (Rape Flower from the entire Gong Mu Do Wha) in October 2008 and the 1st Korea Dance Awards Gala Concert in November 2008(Rape Flower from Gong Mu Do Wha).
The process of life is expressed through a flow of colors in Hwa Chub-Gong Muh Doh Hwa. Black anticipates the birth of life in the paper flower of helipterum. The blooming blue like water hyacinth flower of the lily family is full of life and energy. The yellow rape flower looks much like the everyday lives of ordinary people. The red camellia is the apex of loneliness, while white common gypsophilia or baby's breath represents the world of nothingness and emptiness like the waning moon and the sun. This is a lyrical piece with solo, duet and group dances by dancers dressed as flowers that are intertwined.
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From black to white...
The darkness of the north contains the seed of life.
But it is also the world of death. From the black background, life sheds its dark color to materialize into flowers of blue, yellow and red. At the end, the colors merge into the nothingness of white.
It is common baby's breath that blooms in the world of nothingness.
It is bright enough to be blinding...
Then... just when it has blinded or robbed the living breath of life, the common baby's breath disappears!
The zenith of beauty lies in death
Maybe black tears could give rise to another life...
Among the five colored flowers, black ones cannot be found naturally in the real world. Thus they are made of paper. The blue flower is water hyacinth from the lily family. The yellow flower is rape, the red one is camellia, and the white one is the common gysophilia or baby's breath.
As the tribulations of life and the multitude of human emotions are dramatically expressed in this piece through symbolism and movement, we are reminded that we all still have a piece of ‘purity' deep in our hearts that enables us to be inspired by the colors of flowers and a few lines of poetry on stage.
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| Choreographer |
Choreographer/ Yoon Mira - Professor at the Department of Dance, Kyunghee University
Artistic Director of Mira Dance Company
Vice President of the Korean Society of Dance
Director of the Contemporary Dance Association of Korea
Director of the Association of Korea Dance |
| Company |
Established in 1989, Mira Dance Company specializes in Korean dance and is made up of graduates of the department of dance at Kyunghee University.
Artistic director, Yoon Mira, leads the thirty members and forty trainees of the company. Now a major dance company, it is leading the trends in creative dance and improving the stature of Korean dance both at home and abroad. Over the past two decades, the company has received numerous prizes from prestigious institutes and its performances are testament to the capability of the company.
Choreographer Yoon Mira, following in the footsteps of the grand tradition in Korean dance led by Lee Dongan, Park Jihong, Choi Hyeesun and Kim Malae, has been working hard to maintain and enhance the creative drive in Korean dance. Her dedication to Korean dance and its tradition is the raison d-être of the Mira Dance Company. |
Reviews
Dance of life and death through flowers, with sophistication and restraint
Korean dancer Yoon Mira has presented Hwa Chub-Gong Muh Doh Hwa in collaboration with Arko Arts Theater. It is part of Arko Arts Theater's move from lease-oriented productions to its own productions that the piece comes into place. It has already attracted attention with its long rehearsal period compared to existing shorter practice time. Thanks to such efforts, the piece showed stability and balance in terms of technical expertise.
- Kim Kyung-Ae, Critic, Dance Forum, September 2008
Traditional Five Colors in Creative Dance
Hwa Chub-Gong Muh Doh Hwa, the new work released in 2008 by Mira Dance Company (led by artistic director Yoon Mira of Kyunghee University) is to be presented in Grand Hall at ARKO Arts Theater.
It is a creative piece transforming the traditional five colors of Korea into stories of flowers. The five flowers of helipterum, water hyacinth, rape, camellia and common gysophilia or baby's breath represent the colors of black, blue, yellow, red and white. The five flowers symbolize life, aging and death; happiness, anger, love and pleasure; and love, hatred and desire. Starting from the color of black that contains life, the color moves to brighter colors and ends in white, the color of nothingness and emptiness. The process of life that a person undergoes is illustrated in the flow of colors. Black is portrayed by the paper flower of darkness of helipterum to anticipate the birth of life. The blue in water hyacinth brings forth life and symbolizes energy of life. Yellow rape is the life of everyday humans. Red camellia shows the loneliness at its zenith, while the white common gysophilia is the world of nothingness where both the moon and sun have disappeared. The solo, duet and group movement of dancers describing different flowers are lyrically intertwined.
- Kim Sung-Ho, Culture, Seoul Daily
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