Celebrating East Asia: P’ansori

Celebrating East Asia: P’ansori

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When:
October 27, 2016 @ 10:20 am – 8:00 pm
2016-10-27T10:20:00-04:00
2016-10-27T20:00:00-04:00
Where:
Snyder Auditorium
Sny-Phi
East Lansing, MI 48823
USA
Cost:
Free
Celebrating East Asia: P'ansori @ Snyder Auditorium | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

P’ansori Workshop

October 27, 2016
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

MSU Auditorium, Studio 60 Theatre
542 Auditorium Road (Basement)

P’ansori Pre-Performance Reception

October 27,2016
6:30- 7:00 p.m.
RCAH Gallery
362 Bogue Street

P’ansori Performance

October 27, 2016
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Snyder Auditorium (Lower Level)
362 Bogue Street

P’ansori is a solo-singer storytelling art designated as Korea’s intangible treasure and an UNESCO world oral heritage. Its narrative structure alternates between spoken passages that moves the plot and sung passages that further define the musical poetics. Five classical narratives remain with their vocal stylistics vividly revealing the ancient Korean cultures, beliefs, and expressions.

One of the five narratives remaining in the P’ansori storytelling tradition, Song of Water Palace is an allegory of human greed, foibles, and the prevailing law of nature: Deep in the South Sea, the Dragon King falls gravely ill. Neither doctors nor medicines can cure him. One day, a mystic healer descends from heaven to tell the king he needs the liver of hare for medicine. It is Turtle, his faithful minister, volunteers to go to Land to find Hare for his king. Turtle finds Hare and successfully lures him to Water Palace. Would the Dragon King recover by virtue of Hare’s liver? Chan Park delivers her bilingual adaptation of an excerpt from the narrative, with English subtitles for the song lyrics.

For more information, please visit go.cal.msu.edu/eastasianarts.