This pansori show was nothing like the ones I saw before. This one was unusually daring to explore itself into the edge. As the performers--who are the students of Korean Music Department, Hanyang University--shown up on the stage, we could feel that it's gonna be good. It was!
Still, the audience did not have the slightest idea of what to see next. That's the best part.
The pansori-strict rules of uttering words and sentences in Korea were of course present to their core. But, the jazzy pansori, the blues pansori, the hard-hitting slow-rock pansori, and of course Pop Pansori, too....were all mixed up and sewn nicely to portray the 4 different stories from 4 different sorikun 소리꾼 or performers of Pansori. Each of the performer had his/her own uniqueness.
Each of them brought about different story to tell with different props and different ways of expressing feelings through dances, pansori chanting, ranting, rapping, and all other music genres imaginable.
Moreover.... the screen that highlighted the background story of each scene could not have been better! it somewhat delved itself into the realm of new perspective of what Pansori should be.
This WAS something that most young (Korean) people should see so that they could see the hidden treasures that they should cherish in the midst of seemingly never-ending burgeoning prowess of K-Pop into the minds of these young people lately.
Kudos are to the young students of Hanyang Univ. Music Department for bringing up something new to Pansori.
We are--as foreigners--studying and living in Korea, sure. Today, we felt like having the privilege to taste the newly twisted Pansori songs and sounds as we had today at Eunpyeon Art and Cultural Center.
We could not have been invited as well....should our university, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, not inform us. We are lucky and thankful to be studying here since there are lots of cultural activities and experience to explore.
--just like what we normally do, taking pictures is a must-do list in our agenda.^^
Still, the audience did not have the slightest idea of what to see next. That's the best part.
Moreover.... the screen that highlighted the background story of each scene could not have been better! it somewhat delved itself into the realm of new perspective of what Pansori should be.
This WAS something that most young (Korean) people should see so that they could see the hidden treasures that they should cherish in the midst of seemingly never-ending burgeoning prowess of K-Pop into the minds of these young people lately.
We are--as foreigners--studying and living in Korea, sure. Today, we felt like having the privilege to taste the newly twisted Pansori songs and sounds as we had today at Eunpyeon Art and Cultural Center.
We could not have been invited as well....should our university, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, not inform us. We are lucky and thankful to be studying here since there are lots of cultural activities and experience to explore.
--just like what we normally do, taking pictures is a must-do list in our agenda.^^
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