Travel Diary: Igidae Park
The site of a heroic sacrifice is now a great place to go hiking.
The site of a heroic sacrifice is now a great place to go hiking.
In 2012, Angie Hartley, choreographer and dancer, extended an invitation for dance enthusiasts to participate in a short modern dance piece at the Gwangju Performance Project’s theater production, Ives Just Got to Dance.
If you pass through Daein Market on a normal day, you may not notice anything special about it right away. You will see the usual vegetable stands, smell the salty air preserving dried fish and hear the friendly calls of elderly shop owners. However, upon closer examination of this archeological site, one can also feel the vibrations of new life pulsing through the veins of each alleyway.
These monthly dance workshops will lead up to a performance at the Gwangju International Center Community Day in October 2012.
No, that’s not bad English! It’s the title of a series of one-act plays by David Ives, along with an original dance piece by Angie Hartley.
On Sunday, March 11, the GIC hosted a dance workshop entitled “Interpretive Dance Does not Exist… Or does it?” Angie Hartley, a dancer who currently works as an English teacher with the EPIK program here in Gwangju, led the participants through a variety of movement-based exercises.