The 21st Changmu International Dance Festival

Performance
The 21st Changmu International Dance Festival
The Changmu International Dance Festival, organized by the private

organization Changmu Arts Center, is the biggest dance festival in

Korea. Since its foundation in 1993, the festival has been introducing

the world's dance with the sole aim of "globalizing tradition through

modern accession." This year's edition brought colorful programs from

6 countries around the world. The Finnish dance troupe The Carl Knif

Company depicts the communication between language and dance

based on a Finnish poem through "Mothertongue," while the Kim

Myung-sook Nulhui Dance Company displays the circle of life with

gigantic Beopgye-do, the contracted poem of Hwaom Idealism written

by Buddhist monk Uisang of the Silla Dynasty. Through the medium of

dance, the dancers continuously seek the answer to the question of

life. Meanwhile, the Tatmaroo Dance Company showcases the piece

"Men on the Beach," which comically and delightfully portrays the

weary inner sides of modern-day males. In the piece, male dancers

dance funnily in skirts, but the message it conveys is never trivial. Let

your soul dance with the world through the Changmu International

Dance Festival.

[Performance] A modern dance festival based on tradition

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