Now enjoy Korean performing arts, traditional culture every Friday till April 16 

NEW DELHI: Starting today, the Korean Cultural Center India (KCCI) in collaboration with India Habitat Centre, (IHC) is presenting Korean National representative performing arts every Friday of the week till April 16.

With the content support from Seoul Arts Center (SAC) which is the shrine of Korean performing arts, one can enjoy the performances through YouTube live streaming.

This third season of SAC will have 7 performances: Pericles (Theatre), The Magic Flute (Opera), Treasure Island (Theatre), Giselle (Dance), Dallae Story (Theatre -Non-verbal puppet theatre), Krankenschwester (Nurse) – (Theatre) and Spirit of Beethoven (classical music).

Hwang Il-yong, director of Korean Cultural Centre India said, “KCCI has been working for expanding Korean cultural wave (Hallyu) from pop culture-oriented like K-Pop to sophisticated performing arts and traditional culture. We are looking forward to communicating and interacting with people in this field also through this kind of program.

Pericles:

-Original Author: William Shakespeare

-Director: Jungwoong Yang

-Script: Jungwoong Yang, Sehan Kim

-Dramaturg: Hyunwoo Lee

-Casting: Inchon Yu, Yoonho Nam, Sungmin Jeon, Eunhee Kim, Kookho Lee etc

-Schedule: 5^th March 2021 (18:00~)

-Duration: 150m

-Synopsis: Pericles, Prince of Tyre, travels to Antioch to seek the hand of King Antiochus’s daughter. To win her, he must solve a riddle – but, is horrified to realize its meaning: that the king is guilty of incest. Anticipating Antiochus’s wrath, Pericles flees to the of Tharsus, where he relives a famine with supplies from his ship. Again setting sail, he is shipwrecked on the coast of Pentapolis, where he marries Thaisa, daughter of King Simonides.

When word arrives that Antiochus is dead, Pericles decides to return to Tyre with his bride. Their ship, however, is caught in a storm, during which Thaisa appears to die in childbirth. Committed to the sea, her coffin washes ashore at Ephesus, where the physician Cerimon revives her. Believing her husband dead, she becomes a priestess of Diana, goddess of chastity. Meanwhile, Pericles, fearing that his new-born daughter, Marina, will not survive the rest of the journey home, leaves her in the care of Cleon, governor of Tharsus, and his wife Dionyza.

Years pass and Dionyza, jealous of Marina, plots to have her murdered. Marina escapes but is sold by pirates to a brothel in Mytilene. There, she remains a virgin by converting her clients, among them Lysimachus, governor of Mytilene, who falls in love with her.

Pericles, grief-stricken at the loss of his child as well as his wife, reaches Mytilene in his wanderings. He meets Marina there and learns that she is his daughter. In a vision, the Goddess Diana bids him go to her temple at Ephesus where he finds Thaisa. The play ends happily with the family reunited.

The Magic Flute:

-Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

-Libretto: Emmanuel Schikaneder

-Original author: Christoph Wieland

-Conductor: Hun-Joung Lim

-Director: Kyung-Jae Lee

-Chorus conductor: Chun Koo

-Casting: Woo-Kyung Kim, Byung-Woo Gong, Hyun-Joo Park, Hyun-Seung Jeon

-Schedule: 12^th March 2021 (18:00~)

-Duration: 108m

-Synopsis: The Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, he learns the high ideals of Sarastro’s community and seeks to join it. Separately, then together, Tamino and Pamina undergo severe trials of initiation, which end in triumph, with the Queen and her cohorts vanquished. The earthy Papageno, who accompanies Tamino on his quest, fails the trials completely but is rewarded anyway with the hand of his ideal female companion, Papagena.

Treasure Island:

-Original Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

-Script: Se-Han Kim

-Director: Dae-Woong Lee

-Dramaturg: Yeong-Gyun Heo

-Casting: Jin-Gon Kim, Do-Wan Kim, In-Soo Han, Sang-Bo Kim, Seung-Rock You

-Schedule: 19^th March 2021 (18:00~)

-Duration: 115m

-Synopsis: Jim Hawkins, a boy who runs an inn with his family. One day, a strange captain visits the inn, and after a while, he dies of mysterious death. Jim finds a treasure map in his leftover chest and sets up an expedition with doctor Livesey and landlord John Trelawney to go on an adventure toward the treasure island. While a thrilling voyage continues with Captain Smollett and the invincible expedition, including one-legged cook Long John Silver, Jim overhears John Silver’s plot to capture all the treasures.

Giselle:

-Music: Adolphe Adam

-Libretto: Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier

-Original story: De L’Allemagne(Heinrich Heine), Fantômes(Victor Hugo)

-Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot

-Director: Oleg Vinogradov

-Casting: Hye-Min Hwang, Jae-Yong Um, Dong-Tak Lee, Pang Meng

-Schedule: 26^th March 2021 (18:00~)

-Duration: 94m

-Synopsis:

*Act I: A Rhineland Village

Giselle, a peasant girl, has fallen in love with Count Albrécht, who has led her to believe that he is a villager named Loys. Her superstitious mother, Berthe, hoping that Giselle will marry the forester Hilarion, warns her against Loys, to whom she has taken an instinctive dislike.

In order to discourage Giselle’s love for ‘Loys’, Berthe further recounts the legend of the Wilis — ghosts of young girls who have been jilted and die before their wedding day: to avenge themselves, they dance to death any man who crosses their paths between midnight and dawn. But Giselle disregards her mother and joins, with her beloved, in the celebrations that mark the end of the grape harvest, when she is crowned Queen of the Vintage.

Wilfred, Albrécht’s squire, secretly warns him that a hunting party is approaching, led by the Duke of Courland and the Countes Bathilde (Albrécht’s future bride), who are staying at Albrécht’s castle for the betrothal ceremony. Albrécht hides, but Hilarion has witnessed this meeting and decides to break in to ‘Loy’s’ cottage to discover the secret of his identity. The hunting party arrives. Giselle dances for the nobles and when she tells Bathilde that she too is engaged, the Countess gives her a necklace. Bathilde, tired from hunting, asks to rest in Berthe’s cottage, but the Duke decides to continue the hunt and orders a hunting horn to be left by the cottage door so that he and the rest of the party may be recalled when Berthe is ready to rejoin them. Hilarion now reappears from «Loys’s cottage. He has found Albrécht’s sword and when he compares it with the hunting horn, he sees that they bear the same crest; this gives him the evidence for which he has been looking. Not realizing that the hunt is still nearby, Albrécht returns. Hilarion interrupts the dancing and reveals the truth about ‘Loys’. He sounds the horn, the hunting party returns and Bathilde, coming out of the cottage, claims Albrécht as her fiancé. The shock is too much for Giselle and she loses her reason. In her madness she relives her love for ‘Loys’ and, seizing his sword, she kills herself.

-Intermission-

Act II: Giselle’s Grave in the Forest

Hilarion keeps vigil by Giselle’s grave, which lies deep in the forest in unconsecrated ground. It is midnight, the time when the Wilis materialize. Hilarion flees in terror when confronted by these apparitions. Myrthe, their queen, now arrives from the marshes and summons her Wilis. She draws Giselle from her grave to be initiated into their rites. The Wilis disperse as Albrécht approaches, searching for Giselle’s grave. He lays flowers at the cross and when Giselle’s spirit appears to him, he follows it into the forest.

Hilarion, pursued by the Wilis, returns and is forced into an endless dance. Exhausted, he is driven into the lake, where he drowns. The Wilis now seek out Albrécht and when Myrthe commands him to dance, Giselle urges him to the safety of the cross, but
he is powerless when Myrthe orders Giselle to entice him away by dancing with him. Giselle tries to sustain him, but as the night wears on he becomes weaker and weaker. Just as he is about to die, dawn breaks. Daylight destroys the Wilis’ power and the ghostly dancers fade away; Giselle, whose love has transcended death, returns to her grave, her spirits freed from the power of the Wilis, leaving Albrécht sorrowing and alone.

Dallae Story:

-Director: Hyun-San Jo

-Music: Jai-Hwan Chung

-Casting: Yang-Hee Kim, Sung-Hyun Hwang, Seok-Won Choi, Hyun-San Jo, Ji-Yun Ru

-Schedule: 2^nd April 2021 (18:00~)

-Duration: 55m

-Synopsis: Dallae Story is a nonverbal puppet show about an ingenuous child named Dallae and her ordinary family whose lives are interrupted by Korean War (1950–1953). The piece does not directly discuss the war itself, but rather portrays the efforts of a family to overcome the hardships of wartime in a fairy tale-like fantasy. The story is expressed through hand manipulation of the puppets, beginning with Dallae’s birth to her sweet childhood with her family, and then finally to wartime, with sets of the four seasons representing both the stages of life and the passage of time.

Krankenschwester (Nurse):

-Script & Director: Jae-Yup Kim

-Dramaturg: Ji-Hyun Lee

-Casting: Kuk-Hyang Jeon, Young-Suk Lee, Sung-Kyung Hong, Won-Jo Jung

-Schedule: 9^th April 2021 (18:00~)

-Duration: 110m

-Synopsis: 40 years ago, Myung-Ja, Soon-Ok and Kuk-Hee chose to go to Germany for different reasons. Three people from different backgrounds, who would have no reason to meet in Korea, meet as nursing women in unfamiliar lands, rely on each other, and adapt to German society. Around that time, Jung-Min, a bourgeois student who began her study in Germany and decided to write a thesis on the history of immigrants. The four women, who became acquainted with Jung-Min’s thesis, voice their voices calling for the right to stay in the face of an incident in which Germany unilaterally suspended its permission to stay. The “Korean Women’s Association in Germany,” which was created based on this, will serve as a channel for constant voice in German and Korean society.

Spirit of Beethoven:

-Conductor: Hun-Joung Lim

-Piano: Da Sol

-Orchestra: Korean Symphony Orchestra

-Program:

1. Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ – L. V. Beethoven
2. Symphony No. 5 in c minor – L. V. Beethoven

-Schedule: 16^th April 2021 (18:00~)

-Duration: 80m

-Conductor Hun-Joung Lim, who is presenting a stage where he takes a deep look at the works of classical composers such as Dvořák and Mahler. He chooses Beethoven’s works for the last regular concert of the Korean Symphony Orchestra this year. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 <The Emperor>, which is familiar to everyone, and Beethoven’s Symphony No.5, which has become a symbol of classical music, will present a stage that all audiences can sympathize with and like.

For performance details and links, visit the KCCI website: http://india.korean-culture.org/ko or KCCI SNS channels.