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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
CONTACT: Russell Guerrero
Jan. 16, 2008
Ancient Art of Korean Storytelling to be Performed at Trinity University
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Chan E. Park |
SAN ANTONIO – Romantic stories, morality plays, and outrageous humor, combined with singing and drumming, are all part of Pansori, Korea's signature storytelling art. Trinity University will host a Pansori performance at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31, in Chapman Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
The performance will feature Chan E. Park, professor of Korean language, literature, and performance studies at Ohio State University.
Pansori goes back about three centuries in Korea. Traditionally a performer, accompanied by a drummer, holds a fan and sings, emotes, shouts, cries, and speaks all the parts of Korea's favorite tales. Pansori singers have entertained kings and peasants and now, modern audiences around the world.
Dr. Park has created a Pansori performance in English for American audiences to demonstrate the amazing range of the Pansori style. Acting as both the singer and the drummer, she engages audiences with ironic, tragic, satirical, and humorous moments from longer Pansori “operas.”
Dr. Park comes to Trinity through the courtesy of the Korea Society and her appearance is sponsored by the Trinity departments of music, speech and drama, and modern languages and literatures as well as the East Asian Studies at Trinity program, the International Studies Program, and the Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Program.
For more information, contact the East Asian Studies at Trinity program at 210-999-7191.
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