Klaus Makela, a fast-rising Finnish conductor and cellist, will finally meet the Korean audiences after two pandemic-induced cancellations. "I was truly sad and felt sorry. However, because of the sadness I had felt through the pandemic, the expectation for the upcoming performance in Korea doubled," Makela said in an email interview this week. At 27, Makela is chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, whic.
Plays, performances on labor issues hit stages
Posted : 2021-06-07 09:07
By Park Ji-won
A series of plays and dance performances focusing on the lives and deaths of factory workers are running in local theaters in June and July.
The musical, 1976 Harlan County, which runs from May 28 to July 4 at the Chungmu Arts Center, revolves around miners in the United States who went on strike against their employer in 1973. The piece is inspired by the Oscar-winning documentary film, Harlan County, USA, which was released in 1976.
Director Yoo Byung-eun said, I wrote the first edition of this work in 2016. As a father raising children, I started to write the script while thinking about how to express the tragedy of the Sewol ferry disaster.
[INTERVIEW] Migrant workers lives explored in dance performance, A Seventh Man
Posted : 2021-06-01 15:22
By Park Ji-won
Choreographer Jung Young-doo / Courtesy of LG Arts Center A Seventh Man, a dance piece by choreographer Jung Young-doo dealing with migrant workers, will be performed again, 11 years following its creation in 2010.
The work, inspired by the book with the same title, A Seventh Man, (1975) a book by John Berger and Jean Mohr about the lives of migrant workers in Europe, explores the movements of people and their emotions working and living in other parts of the world.
Starting with the cleansing process of a gut, a shamanic ritual in Korea, 10 performers aim to show both the struggles and the hopes of people who were forced to leave their homes for various reasons throughout the 80-minute performance.