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In the audience was Ms. Park. Forty years ago, she was a dance professor at the Dolang University in Pusan, Korea. She specialized in Korean traditional dance.
The show made her feel homesick.
“The music especially make me homesick. Beautiful though, and the costume and everything and the stage [covering] is unbelievable. And every performer … their movement, not only the perfection, but even the expression, although it is a group dance … I can see that each of them has their own expression. I am really impressed, I enjoyed it very much.”
As a dance teacher, Ms. Park appreciated the expertise that made the show possible.
“Skills are huge and choreograph is tremendous—its really amazing. Whoever is the choreographer, I wish I could meet them. But, its really … I don't know how he or she can thoroughly do every movement.”
Classical Chinese dance has its own complete set of training methods in foundational skills, a strict regimen for perfecting bearing and form, and means of training for skill sets such as jumps, turns, and flips, as well as extremely demanding aerial techniques, culminating in an enormous dance system. The aerial movements of classical Chinese dance contain a wealth of high-flying dives, dexterous leaps, and diverse spins.
Ms. Park felt that the performers went about their dances as if they were one body.
“This is group dance. They are very well coordinated. Although it is a group, it’s like it’s a single person's expression of movement, and it’s perfect on the stage.”
She was highly impressed by the costumes as well.
“You see the frame of the movement and physique through the costume, yet it’s not exposed. It’s very elegantly covered. The dance shows more graceful movement, and that color also helps the feel of the movement, and the music as well.
"For those who watch the performance, I think all of them are elevating as if being charged. The entire performance displays an arrival of a bright and new day. The last program showcases the purification of Earth. The old and bad substances are now part of the past and a new world has arrived. This is my understanding, also what I believe in and hope for.”
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