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Werner Kranwetvogel | Photographer
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But music is not only an element, to keep the pace of the performers, and to hold the different parts of the performance together. Its purpose is also to enhance the emotion of the performance. A good example for this are the opera-like sequences of the shows. So you can find an impressive part named 'Across the Tuman River' in the 'Arirang'-show, about an episode in the so-called 'Anti Japanese Revolutionary Struggle' at the end of World War II. Some of the performers form a field of rice shaking in the wind, while different groups of players are straying through this 'field' trying to find their relatives. During this sequence the backdrop forms a huge white screen on which a gigantic picture of the Tuman river is projected. But in midst this spectacle opera singers appear on small stages within the arena and perform tremendous arias. It is like the stage of an opera, but in an incredible huge scale. By using all means of an opera play very powerfully, it is particularly the music, that scales the effect of this picture into epic dimensions. |
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