Korean Traditional Dance! Cultural Heritage Festival

2019 ARI PROJECT: Performing Arts
Korean Traditional Dance! Cultural Heritage Festival
Promoted by Corporation Korean Dance Commission of History, and Lee Young Nam Dance Company
-Date: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 7:30pm
-Place: Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles 3rd Fl. Ari Hall

The main theme of this year's performance is keeping the heritage from our ancestors and thus will be exhibiting many of the most traditional and historical dance. One of the dances is Pyongyang Gummu, a traditional dance with the distinctive local color of Pyongan Island. It is a Korean Dance intangible heritage that was restored by the Lee Bong-ae (Pyongyang Gummu 1st performing arts holder) teacher in South Korea after the Korean War and knows the essence of North Korean intangible heritage in South Korea today.