Traditional and Contemporary Korean Dance and Music

Performed by In-Young Sohn's NOW Dance Company


"...a feast of radiant peasant dances and exuberant drum work..."
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jane Vranish Read the full review

The beating of gongs and the whirl of ribbons helped blend past and present when the NOW Dance Company took to stages across the Northeast to perform Tradition & Its Changes: Traditional and Contemporary Korean Dance and Music. Led by artistic director In-Young Sohn, the company of dancers and musicians combined folk dances handed down through the generations--such as the vibrant, up-tempo "Harvest Moon Festival Dance"--with deep and sonorous contemporary visions, such as "Deceptive Appearance," a piece that uses the movements of a single dance to draw parallels between modern dance and calligraphy.

Tradition & Its Changes began its tour on October 19 at Synod Hall in Pittsburgh, after which the Pittburgh  Post-Gazette praised the performance as "a feast of radiant peasant dances and exuberant drum work." The tour continued on to Cornell University (on October 21) and the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (October 24), before its closing show for the Korean American Association of Rhode Island at Bryant University on October 25.

• Download the Program Notes (pdf)