((Student Leader-ing))
T'alchum
- Almost lost during Japanese occupation
- 1960s
- historians and practitioners
- revived 13-15 different kinds of masked dance (from different regions)
- Six Characteristics of Korean Folk Dance
- a spirital base of respect for nature and respect for freedom of expression
- embodiment of feelings of han (deep inner sentiment that is manifested as profound grief or sadness) and sinmyeong (artistic ecstasy or exhilaration that occurs at final dramatic moment when tears turn to laughter, darkness to light.)
- self-expression
- strongly improvisational
- satirizes daily life and wealth
- The Madang (yard/garden)
- used to be performed in everyone's back yards and the village
- nowadays becoming
- Audience Participation
- several hours; people come and go
- all ages and demographics
- characters speak directly to the audience
- questions
- conversations
- audience can call out or stand up
- sit down into the audience
- "Call and Response"
- Ceremony of the Mask
- most masks would be burned once used
- made out of anything; animal fur, gourd, etc.
- except Andong, where they made them out of wood and did not burn them
- symbolic relationship
- shape of the eyes
- the mouth
- the paint
- the curves
- the bumps
- the size
- etc.
- Mask Images
- bride; mouth closed; left eye up; right eye down
- bar maid; mouth open; happier
- More about the performance
- very free in time and space
- no narration
- viewers can jump in
- excellent device for satire
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