U-hee Company performing at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.

As part of the Kennedy Center's 2023 Lunar New Year Celebration, the traditional performance art group U-hee Company held a live performance on February 2 at 6 p.m. at the center's Millennium Stage. 

The group performed their modern performance art work U-hee Nori , which consists of several mini plays that include traditional percussion music and audience interaction. Over 400 guests attended the performance. 

U-hee Company performing a mini play using traditional Korean percussion instruments.

The hour-long program included modernly interpreted traditional art performances like samulnori (traditional music with four percussion instruments), pungmulnori (traditional percussive music and dance), spinning of sangmo (a hat with feathers or paper streamers attached to the top and worn when dancing and spinning the wearer's head) and more. 

Artists Yoo-kyung Sung, Tae-won Ahn, Seung-won Oh, Dong-geun Lee, Young-ho Lim, Kyung-tae Ji and Han Yang performed at this event. 

The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.

A member of U-hee company performing on stage.

U-hee Company performing with Sangmo (Korean folk arts hat).

U-hee Company is a performance company inspired by Korean traditional music and comprising six promising young Korean artists who are committed to bringing joy through their music. U-hee’s forte is reinterpreting Korean traditional music for modern ears and introducing the world to Yeonhee, a form of music that inherits the soul of Korean performance art. U-hee is renowned for its outstanding modernized interpretation of age-old Korean traditions with a creative perspective.

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For those who missed the performance, please enjoy a video recording of the full performance here.

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