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Tbilisi Ballet Festival
Season 167
June 26 20:00

What about Classical Movements?Ⅱ
Contemporary Ballet
Choreography by Sunhee KIM
Music : Sergie Prokofiev
Dancers : Yelim CHOI, Jioh GWAK, Haeun PARK, Yujeong CHOI, Seonmee PARK, Yeon OH, Shinhyoung HAN, Mokrin CHOI, Minyoung KIM, Byul YUN, Sunwoo LEE, Beomsu PARK, Yunjai DO, Seokjoo KIM, Seongwoo RYU, Sangmin LEE, Junyoung YANG, Hyunkyu LEE, Woojae JEON, Sungwook JUNG, Hyowon LIM

Hallyangmu
Traditional Korean
Staged by Duckki AHN
Dancers : Seungtae KIM, Sanghwa JEONG, Jaewon CHOI, Juryeon BANG

During the Joseon Dynasty, the term hallyang, or “prodigal men,” was applied to noblemen who did not hold office and therefore did not work for money, but simply idled away their lives enjoying various entertainments. Hallyangmu is the representative work of Korean men's dance that Hallyang and a monk entice a woman, expressing the preciousness and strong spirit the Sunbee(scholar) and dancing to show off the traditional elegance, joy, and style.

Between
Choreography by Misook JEON
Dancers : Yunju LEE, Yechan LEE, Sungmin KIM
We always do together what we do, where we look, what we hear.

Tchaikovsky Pas de deux
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music : Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky
Dancers : Mokrin CHOI, Sangmin LEE

Carmen
Choreography by Alberto Alonso
Music : Rodion Shchedin
Dancer : Seonmee PARK

The White Road
Contemporary Korean

Choreography by Myung Ok HAN, Eunhee KIM
Dancers : Hyejin YUN, Seryoung CHOO, Kyeongwon MIN, Jiwon CHOI, Yeonhwa CHA, Hyeryeong KIM, Hyoin YUN, Mira RYU, Eunyi KIM, Hayoon YI, Sanghwa JEONG, Seungtae KIM, Jaewon CHOI, Juryeon BANG

The White Road is a reflection about vanished things. It represents inside of human beings abstractly and maximize with dynamic and active movement and shows a message of hope to seek the lights which comes after darkness.

INTERMISSION

Tarantella
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music : Louis Gottschalk
Dancers : Haeun PARK, Byul YUN

Mu Chunghao ! (Inviting Shaman)
Contemporary Korean
Choreography by Myung Ok HAN, Duckki AHN
Dancers : Seryoung CHOO, Sanghwa JEONG, Hyejin YUN, Kyeongwon MIN, Jiwon CHOI, Yeonhwa CHA,Hyeryeong KIM, Hyoin YUN, Eunyi KIM, Hayoon YI

This piece is choreographed from Mudang Chun (shaman dance) that were performed by shamans called Mu-dang. Mudang Chum that Mudang boasts power herself by amusing gods shows the most traditional element among Korean ritual dance. Dance with traditional fan and bell which look like tempt gods shows both feelings of softness and fanatic. Mu-dang is changeable and irregular in that not only she shows authority and majesty as a person having divinity but she also shows naughty dance. This piece adds more contemporary elements to Mudang Chum and organizes with group structure to make an enormous atmosphere of energetic, fashionable, and mingling with audiences by calling gods on the stage.

Sabre Dance
From the ballet “Gayme”
Staged by Vladimir Lyutov
Music : Aram llich Hachaturian
Dancers : Mokrin CHOI, Seokjoo KIM, Seongwoo RYU, Hyowon LIM, Junyoung YANG,Hyunkyu LEE, Woojae JEON, Sungwook JUNG, Yunjai DO, Beomsu PARK,

Bow
Contemporary
Choreography by Misook JEON
Dancers : Yunju LEE, Soeon PARK, Heewon JEON, Minseon CHOI,
Soulyun PARK, Jisoo LEE, Hyeonggyu CHOI

Is bowing merely a gesture of welcome or is there a deeper meaning behind it? The Korean choreography Bow centers on a widespread gesture in Eastern culture, an act full of beauty showing politeness and respect. Bowing is also a reflection of hierarchy, as its angle depends on one's social position. In a performance of deconstruction, the dancers repeat the ritual ad nauseam, turning it into an onerous burden and thus questioning its reason for being – an outrageous thing to do in East Asia.

Gak-si
Contemporary Korean

Choreography by Bokyung JUNG
Dancers : Mira RYU, Hyoin YUN, Eunyi KIM, Hayoon YI, Jaewon CHOI, Juryeon BANG

This work is a motif that started with the appearance of Gaksital(Bridal Mask).

The thin, long eyes and the tails hanging down as if they were wrapped around show the appearance of women at the time when the expression of their feelings could not be freely expressed.In other words, forced silence and unnatural shyness caused by socialrestrictions. The choreographer created on the theme of women's life by dividing images of the symbolic meanings embodied in Gaksital.

Stars and Stripes

Choreography by George Balanchine
Music : John Philip Sousa
Dancers : Seonmee PARK, Sunwoo LEE

NO COMMENT
Contemporary

Choreography by Changho Shin

Dancers : Changmin LEE, Soobeom JANG, Hyeonggyu CHOI, Yechan LEE, Uiheon JEONG, Inhyeok JUNG, Rockkyun KIM, Sungmin KIM, Yunju LEE, Soeon PARK, Heewon JEON, Minseon CHOI, Soulyun PARK, Jisoo LEE

Sometimes, no comment gives even more truly answer for real. Like, calm pulse is rocking through the blood in the body and the truth is also struggle for reality. The minimals are simple in the logical moving and complicatedly, attaches a decoration in original format and escapes, this is pure meaningless or all meaning which are the possibility of seeking from the place where is abstractive moving and is visible from the intention of origin.

Artistic Director Misook Jeon

Artistic Director of the Tbilisi Ballet Festival: Nina Ananiashvili
*The late-comers will not be allowed in until the first interval.

K-Arts Dance Company

The School of Dance was established to provide practical and high-standard education to meet the goal of achieving professionalism and excellence in dance education. It focuses not only on intensive education in performance and creativity but also on a well-rounded theoretical background in the liberal arts with an objective to provide our students with a strong foundation for intellectual as well as imaginative development.

With the establishment of the K-Arts Dance Company in 1997 which consists of the school faculty and students at Korea National University of Arts, we have come one step closer to achieving our goal of becoming the launching platform for professional dancers.

One of the major focuses for K-Arts’ School of Dance is to provide professional level performance opportunities to our students in Korea as well as abroad. Our students have performed in California, New York, Washington DC, Paris, Lyon, London, Helsinki, Stockholm, Sicily, Dresden, Moscow, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, and Tokyo and received rave reviews.

Dancers from K-Arts School of Dance have been dominating many international competitions such as, IBC Varna, Moscow International Ballet Competition, Vaganova-Prix, Jackson International Competition, Youth America Grand Prix, VKIBC, Helsinki International Ballet Competition, Russian Open Ballet Competition-Arabesque, Premio Roma Danza, International Ballet Competition Sicily, Tanzolmp, and Seoul International Dance Competition.

Also, graduates from the school have landed leading roles in national companies in Korea and many internationally renowned ballet companies such as Mariinsky, Paris Opera, ABT, Boston, Dutch National, Spanish National, Hungarian National, Finnish National, The Norwegian National, Rumanian National, Polish National, Monte Carlo, Sodre, Houston, Tulsa, Orlando, Joffrey, and Alonzo King LINES, and contemporary companies such as Akram Khan Dance Company, HofeshShecther Dance Company, Emanuel Gat Dance Company, Leesaar The Company, Laboratory Dance Project, Sasha Waltz & Guests and etc.