Performance "Euol Sarang" Traditional Dance of South Korea

International Festival Sarajevo – “Sarajevo Winter”– is a traditional cultural and artistic event which takes place in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This year’s Festival will be held under the motto “Buka i bijes - Noise and fury".

Performance is made out of five parts:

Sungmu is the dance which searches after the truth, presenting the spiritual process where human joy and sorrow can be subjugated and sublimated on religious level. Taepyung-mu is the invocation dance of the Queen for the peace of her people. lpchum is the rudimentary dance for all of Korean folk dances. Salpuri, meaning “expelling evil and negative energy,” is a type of folk dance that originated from the shaman rituals in Jeolla Province. Seonbi means “virtuoso scholar” in Korean of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) who passed up portions of wealth and power to lead lives of study and integrity. Samul nori is a genre of percussion music originating in Korea.