I first saw this dance from another channel a few months back and didn't realize this is an old dance choreography. It is easily one of the most original, charismatic and timeless dance performance I have ever seen. Simply can't take my eyes off even after repeated viewing.
@totoro81791 it's something about Shimchung, a Korean fictional female figure who sacrificed herself for the sake of her father. The woman is narrating the part of this story in traditional Pansori method, which is a type of music-storytelling genre of Chosun period. I couldn't really understand the detail either.
she is korean that song is pansori pansori is korean tranditional music and she wears hanbok of korean tranditional clothing that subtitles is just for chinease i'm korean so i don't understand that subtitles p.s north korea and south korea have same history and culture so hanbok and pansori is just all korean thing
cbb12 its said the choreographer is zhang xiao mei， the dancer is lou ying， and its from peking dance accademy。 btw i think it is Taoli cup dance competition， one of the most influential dance competition in china. There are a lot of nice Korean ethnic dance displayed they every 4 year
I take korean dance and I can tell you that these are not korean moves. She doesn't even look korean. She's probably mixed. The song is pansori though.
She’s Chinese but the dance is Korean . In Chinese dance academies “ethnic dance” of china’s minorities are taught , including Korean dance as there are one million Koreans in China on the border with North Korea . The Korean dance program at Beijing dance academy was developed by a Korean woman when Korea was occupied by Japan , and she taught in Beijing during the Korean War . Eventually she went to North Korea and died under unclear circumstances.
Does anybody can tell me the significations of movements did it means something or tell a story? It was absolutly stunning sending shivers down my whole body and I even cried! No words to describe the beauty of this...
The movement is based on the background Pansori sound, a Korean storytelling tradition. The name of this Pansori is "Shim Chong Ga (the tale of Shim Chong)", and is about a girl named Shim Chong, who lives with her blind father, trying to sacrifice as selling herself to these merchants who try to give an offering to the Dragon King of the Sea. She did it because she wanted to give this huge amount of money to a monk who fooled her father that he could be cured if he pays that money. In the video, the sound shows the part when Shim Chong jumps into the sea, so the movement also seems to be dark and confused, showing her situation and her complicated feeling. The story has a happy ending after all, and I think at the end of the video they shortly put the twist part when it reaches to the happy ending. Hope this helped for those who are curious about the story :)
@Lisa before Surgery one does not need to belong to a culture to share in its beauty and significance. Treat it with respect and dignity, as she had done, and you will have the right to partake in another tradition without shame.
1. This is a Chinese version dance of the Korean original Shim-Chong-Jon, an imaginary story of the Kingdom of Korea. Once upon a time, Shim-Chong a beautiful girl jumped herself into the sea as a sacrifice, voluntarily offered her body to the Dragon King of the Sea. By doing so she thought she could get her blind father's eyesight back. After that event, her father got his eyesight back, and he met her daughter who became a queen of a KIngdom on earth. Since then, Shim-Chong is called a representative of the filial daughters among Korean people. 2. For this performance, song by a Korean Pansori Maestro, but dancing movement is not Korean, but looks like a Chinese dancer 3. A fiction, Shim-Chong-Jon (the story of Shim-Chong) is supposed to perform with heart-breaking atmosphere with sorrow, slow beat, never smiling, not light nor quick, snap movement, and clothes and fan are totally different ones seen at the Korean traditional ShimChong-Jon dance form. 4. It sounds right if you say, this Chinese version is a 'fusion Shim-Chong-Jon.' Dancing is great and artful.
@Ron S This is not Chinese culture. Simcheongjeon is a work written in Joseon. In Korea, I have been exposed to this work as a fairy tale since I was young. I hope that the Chinese version of dance does not obscure the essence of the work and tarnish the artist's reputation with groundless stories. You seem to be a bad pro-Chinese who is confusing many people with unobjectified information
This work is choreographied and performed by Chinese dancer. What I am going to state is that in Chinese Folk and Ethnic dance, korean dance is one of the branches, because we have Korean minority people. Choreographer of this work is called Zhang Xiaomei, who is one of Korean minority menbers teaching in Beijing Dance Academy.
It’s Chinese; in China lots of dance school teach Korean traditional dance. And lots of teachers are Korean. I’m Korean born in China. So I know this. Very interesting right
Love This! Fantastic interplay with dancer and drums ( Buk )...Pansori, singer, is woderful as well! Wish I could understand what singer shots at the end...
the dancer is Chinese, could be Chinese Korean minority though. Her name doesn't sound like a Korean minority name and also she is from Beijing Dance Academy. This video is from the first or second Chinese National Dance competition. She now teaches in Beijing Dance Academy and was a student there when she joined the competition a couple of years ago. If I recall correctly, this dance won the second class awards in the competition.
Mary Lee this is from a Chinese dance competition many years ago. The style is traditional Korean but the dancer is Chinese. She might be Chinese Korean minority nationality, which I have no further information to confirm. Beijing Dance Academy teaches different kinds of dances, traditional Korean style is also taught there. This dancer is from.Beijing Dance Academy.
The dancer is a Chinese. Traditional Korean Pansori (2:05 Korean) Costume Korean traditional costume 'Hanbok' Korean tradition with head and fan .. Korean traditional dance.
@@Sparkles-gp2bm Ok arrogant boomer Sincerely, a non-ARMY Plus, you're not even bothered by a Chinese dancer while talking about "traditional and real" Korean culture.
What can be said.. just amazing! i love the way she moves, her spirit just shines- why cant we have this show of honor, loyalty and respect among our own American women!
Guys. China has many ethnic Korean nationals. And this dancing academy is the top one in China. It embraces all genres of dancing. Does she have to be a Korean to perform Korean dancing?
@@whatyjwiwh the dance creater are also Chinese chaoxianzu(Korea) just like that , cause of respect so add in the race dance but not hanzu dance, can't the South Korea just shut the mouth ,they are from north Korea nor of South korea business, instead of steal other country culture,you should fight with the North first and let American soldiers hurt the SK girls
Beautiful performance of fusion (Korean and Chinese) dance! I have literally been looking for this performance for years! I saw it years ago on the now defunct AZN network and could not forget it. Now, I'd like to find the second dance she did. The challenge was her to be a doll - it was really creative and she even worked turning her ankle right into the routine (she really turned her ankle, but kept on dancing)!
what is the name of the dancer please? i would like to include her performance in a virtual dance exhibition and mention her name. thank you. very beautiful
@ Ms. or Mr. rudegyal808, have you ever portrayed anything better of this lovely Korean style art- i challenge you to do so if you have not !? UTube is waiting for you!!??
First an d foremost, great dance! As far as traditional cultural Korean dance, this is not. And any native born Korean who knows what we are looking at will agree. This at best can be classified as a Chinese Koryo ethnic minority dance, but I don't think it's even that. It looks like a Chinese dance done with a Korean theme to it??? No I got it it's a Korean flavored Chinese dance, there. The steps mannerisms the movements the costume, heck even the hair pin just seem off. It's like they couldn't find an authentic Korean dancer, so they dressed up one of thier han Chinese girls and said watch this video, now go and dance like a Korean, the tourists can't tell.
+rudegyal808 You're right about it not being a traditional Korean dance, but you're entirely wrong on the motive and intent. It isn't that they couldn't find a Korean dancer, it's that this is actually Modern Dance, albeit infused with Korean influences. This the product of a Contemporary Dance academy, it's not aiming to showcase traditional dance. It is a fusion. Chinese dance isn't even like this either.
From what I understand there is this small region in China that took it's traditional origins from Korea so the clothing and many basic ideals are taken from there but it still was a part of China. So, this is not true Korean "Korean" dance but in terms of labeling each small region of China they shorten this to "Korean" dance. I've danced "Korean" chinese dance a lot and this is how it was explained to me.
yeah, this has korean elements but the dance itself seems a bit of a mixture of things. what is this actually from? the song is korean but the choreography isn't any korean dance. the amount of leaping, pantomime, and caricature is characteristically unkorean.
There has been a lot of misleading information in this thread. I hope I can clear this up some. The dancer is Chinese, I think from the Beijing Dance Academy. In contrast to traditional dance pedagogy which trains dancers via master/apprentice relationships at traditional companies, professional dance training in China trains students via full time secondary boarding schools through universities particularly the specialized performing arts schools such as the Beijing Dance Academy, Shanghai Theatre Academy, PLA school of the arts, et al. The curriculum taught revolves around three primary streams, Minzuwu (National Folkloric Dances), Gudianwu (Chinese Classical Dance), and ballet. While dancers do specialize, they are expected to be multi-disciplinary and will cross train in multiple styles to make them more comprehensive and well rounded dancers. The style of dance in the video you are seeing is a neo-classical movement that has distilled the core elements of Korean dance forms but it is heavily modernized and hybridized with Chinese dance movements which places heavy emphasis on it's theatrical roots (hence the pantomime and caricature) as well extremely difficult to execute techniques (the series of axis a-symmetric turns combined with fan maneuvers). The foundation of this Chinese style of Korean dance is actually extremely Korean as the key person involved at it's inception was Choi Seung Hee who taught for several years at the Beijing Dance Academy in the 1950's and basically set the curriculum of how Korean dance is taught in China. This style contrasts heavily with the more "traditional" styles predominant in South Korea (as seen in other youtube videos) in that it is generally executed at a much faster tempo and requires a considerably higher degree of physical skill and body conditioning. However, it isn't entirely unique in that it shares many elements with professional dance in North Korea (also founded by Choi Seung Hee) as well as with neo-classical Korean dance movement in South Korea best exemplified by the National Dance Company of Korea.
@@dukeofqin5502 Choi only stayed one year(1951-1952) in China but she established her dance academy in Beijing and her students played key roles in forming Chinese classical dance. She had great influence in Chinese classical dance.
Shocked by some annoying ignorance. She is Chinese for sure, and China has 55 minorities which include one named Korean minority. They developed their own culture within China, so it's reasonable for them to be different from Northern or Southern Korea...
Yes It's true. But that song is South Korea's own song which is "Shimcheong-Ga" of the "PANSORI" sung by "Sukseon Ahn". lol. IT'S JUST DEFINITELY SOUTH KOREAN'S. OKAY? NOT KOREAN MINORITY'S IN CHINA. And her clothes are also it is. lol. How ANNOYING ignorance your comment is. :)
Did I mention anything about that song? I just said she is a Chinese okay? Not a KOREAN. I also have a friend who is han for sure and dances wearing that traditional costume and also the traditional music. The thing I found annoying is that how can somebody declared she is Korean given this video is a Chinese competition for many genres of dances.
The dancer is a Chinese. Traditional Korean Pansori (2:05 Korean) Costume Korean traditional costume 'Hanbok' Korean tradition with head and fan .. Korean traditional dance.
I can't really tell because of the way the lady speaks, but its basically a story about a girl named Shimchong that took care of her blind father. One day, the father hears that if he pays 300 rice bags (about 3 billion today), his eyes can be fixed. However, they are very poor, so Shimchong is very sad. Then theres a big storm and the fishers are unable to fish, so they look for a (human)sacrifice. So Shimchong says that she'll be the sacrafice in exchange for 300 rice bags. She jumps into the ocean, but she doesnt die and meets the god/king of the ocean or the king of korea (there are multiple versions of this story). The king hears her sad story and decides to open a festival at his palace inviting everyone. Of course, Shimchong's father comes with his eyes fixed. Shimchong and her father reunites and live together happily. And Shimchong marries the king. I think the talking in this video is the part after Shimchong goes underwater.
In the middle of the song, Korean comes out (2:05 Pansori) The dress is Korean traditional costume 'Hanbok'. Head and fan are Korean tradition .. Korean traditional dance.
You know the more I watch this video, the more I am kind of insulted as a Korean. She's not Korean, believe me we can tell, none of her movements or choreography are recognizably Korean at all. Her hanbok(dress) is totally wierd looking, the binyeo (hairpin)is off, and the music is from an old cd thats been around for at least 25 years ( I know this because I listened to it on cd and record player) All I'm saying is, that we all know that there are many Koreans in China. So much so that Koryo saram(Chinese Koreans called gouli in Chinese, or the people of that empire) are considered an ethnic group. Fine. But if you want to show case a culture, please have enough respect to at least get the real macoy....and no dammit this is not how Buk Han In(North Koreans) dance, so don't pit this on our Northern brothers.
한국말 아실른지... 한국말도 만약 모르신다면 한국춤이 어쩌구 말하신건 더더군다나 말도 안되는 일이고,, 만약 한국말을 안다면, 이글을 이해하시길... 창작이란 법이 없습니다.. 무엇이든 표현이 가능하고 무엇이로든 꾸며 질수 있는 것이 창작 무용이지요,, 한국 창작무용.. 이 무용의 안무나 무용이나 무한한 테크닉과 가능성과 표현성,, 창작성에 뜨거운 박술르 보냅니다.
