Performance<br />The 21st Changmu International Dance Festival<br />The Changmu International Dance Festival, organized by the private <br /><br />organization Changmu Arts Center, is the biggest dance festival in <br /><br />Korea. Since its foundation in 1993, the festival has been introducing <br /><br />the world's dance with the sole aim of "globalizing tradition through <br /><br />modern accession." This year's edition brought colorful programs from <br /><br />6 countries around the world. The Finnish dance troupe The Carl Knif <br /><br />Company depicts the communication between language and dance <br /><br />based on a Finnish poem through "Mothertongue," while the Kim <br /><br />Myung-sook Nulhui Dance Company displays the circle of life with <br /><br />gigantic Beopgye-do, the contracted poem of Hwaom Idealism written <br /><br />by Buddhist monk Uisang of the Silla Dynasty. Through the medium of <br /><br />dance, the dancers continuously seek the answer to the question of <br /><br />life. Meanwhile, the Tatmaroo Dance Company showcases the piece <br /><br />"Men on the Beach," which comically and delightfully portrays the <br /><br />weary inner sides of modern-day males. In the piece, male dancers <br /><br />dance funnily in skirts, but the message it conveys is never trivial. Let <br /><br />your soul dance with the world through the Changmu International <br /><br />Dance Festival.<br /><br />[Performance] A modern dance festival based on tradition<br /><br />Arts Council Korea http://www.koreapac.kr/
