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Traditional Korean Dance 
Traditional Korean dance is generally divided into two categories, folk dance and court dance. Folk dance expressed the lives and emotions of the common people and is often vigourous and rhythmic. Court dance is much more reserved, a style that is often described as chong joong dong (motion within stillness). The movements are elegant, graceful, flowing, and restrained. Below I will introduce examples of folk and court dances.
Folk Dance
Poongmul Dance Nong-ak (traditional farmers dance) is a strenuous form of folk dance. Dancers rotate their heads producing long spirals with the white ribbons attached to the crown of their hats:
Poongmul Dance Nong-ak (traditional farmers dance) is a strenuous form of folk dance. Dancers rotate their heads producing long spirals with the white ribbons attached to the crown of their hats:
Court Dance
Hwa-gwan mu (flower crown dance) is one of the oldest forms of Korean court dance. Believed to have originated from the Shilla dynasty (57BC-935AD), it was performed by court dancers at banquets for royalty and foreign envoys:
Hwa-gwan mu (flower crown dance) is one of the oldest forms of Korean court dance. Believed to have originated from the Shilla dynasty (57BC-935AD), it was performed by court dancers at banquets for royalty and foreign envoys:
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posted by Alice at 5:51 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Alice
You posted 2 examples of Korean dances.
Your mosaic of Nong-ak a farmer's dance is enough to show dynamicity of the dance. However,it would be difficult to pick up the Korean traditional rhythms from the music. Actually, Nong-ak is composed of several kinds of Korean traditional rhythms. You can pick up the most typical Nong-ak rhythm called Jajin-mori just before and after the appearance of long head tail in your moving picture.
Hwagwan-mu, a flower crown dance, is very beautiful and elegant, however it is a little bit tedious for me. The rhythm of Hwagwan-mu seems to be Jung-mori. My most favorite dance is Fan dance which is elegant and more dynamic. Its rhythm is Gud-geori.
The rhythm of DJG title song Onara is Semach.
Followings are typical Korean rhythms.
Jung-mori jangdan
Jungjung-mori jangdan
Gud-geori jangdan
Jajin-mori jangdan
Hui-mori jangdan
Semach jangdan
Danmori jangdan
Jangdan means rhythm.
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