-Date: Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 7:30pm -Place: Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles 3rd Fl. Ari Hall 5505 Wilshire Blvd., LA, CA 90036 -Online Reservation: www.kccla.org/english/programs_reservation.asp -For more Info: tammy@kccla.org or 323-936-3015
The Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (KCCLA) and Gwanggeto Samulnori will present a special performance "MoveMent Korea" on Thursday, June 7th, 2018 at 7:30P.M. on the 3rd floor of the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, Ari Hall.
The "MoveMent Korea" program consists of Korean Traditional Drum Ensemble “Samulnori - The sound of the soul" blended with B-BOY Performance "Korea Style", Beatbox & Lion dance "U-heung YO!", Pansori & Beatbox New collaboration Performance "Pan Beat Sori - New Chunhyangjeon", and Korea Entertainment Playing “MoveMent Korea”.
Kwanggaeto Samulnori Art Company is dedicated to popularizing Korean traditional entertainment by promoting the excellence to the audience worldwide. They have been performing roughly 200 times in 20 countries around the world, while also educating the locals with Korean traditional entertainment.
In 2010, Gwanggeto Samulnori Art Company was awarded the Grand Prize for Cultural and Arts Development by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, also the Korean Wave Award by the National Assembly in 2017. Furthermore, they were invited to perform at the Washington Chorus Festival, Dallas Korean Festival, and San Francisco Korean Festival; the performances were very well received among the local audience.
Participating artists include Gwanggeto Samulnori (Kwon Jun-sung, Jang Ji-sung, Park Ji-woong, Yun Bo-yeong, Cho Yong-bae, Moon In-jae) with MB B-boys (Kang Jae-sung, Park Jin-hyung, Ha Tae-young), Park Gyeong-jin (Sorinori Resound Ceo), Vita Yoo (Artistic Director of Vita Dance Academy), Kang Beom-gu (Beat Boxer B9), and Kwon Jun-hyeok(A general manager).
Designated by Seoul metropolitan city as a professional performing arts group, the members of Gwanggeto Samulnori Art Company consist of the masters of 2005 Intangible Heritage, and artists majored in traditional performance. They have been actively performing towards re-creating traditional performance with a sense of contemporary sensibility, at the same time, they’ve been exerting themselves to have precious tradition passed on to the future generations.
-PROGRAM-
1. Korean Traditional Drum Ensemble “Samulnori - The sound of the soul" 2. B-BOY Performance "Korea Style" 3. Beatbox & Lion dance "U-heung YO!" 4. Pansori & Beatbox New collaboration Performance "Pan Beat Sori - New Chunhyangjeon" 5. Korea Entertainment Playing "MoveMent Korea"