From 10 Magazine's Jeolla event calendar comes news of a Christmas Nanta Performance coming to Suncheon. It will be held at the Suncheon Culture Arts Center (순천문화예술회관), with one performance on December 24th at 8:00 pm, and performances on Christmas at 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Tickets are 44,000 and 55,000 won, and there's a little more information here, in Korean. Here's how the Korea Tourism Organization introduces Nanta:
'NANTA' figuratively refers to reckless punching as in a boxing match. 'NANTA' is a non-verbal performance of free rhythmical movements that dramatize customary Korean percussions in a strikingly comedic stage show. Integrating unique Korean traditional drumbeats in a western performance style, NANTA storms into a huge kitchen where four capricious cooks are preparing a wedding banquet. While cooking, they turn all kinds of kitchen items - pots, pans, dishes, knives, chopping boards, water bottles, brooms and even each other- into percussion instruments.
Here's the official site, and Google will be your friend for more information.
4 comments:
Saw this show in Seoul in the Spring and I highly recommend it! Especially if you've enjoyed shows like "Stomp" in the past. There's not a tonne of speaking in it, so don't worry if you don't understand much Korean. And if you're a blonde foreigner, it's pretty likely you'll get pulled up on stage at some point! :)
Thanks for that, Lisa. I'm debating going. Wish the performances on the 25th were a little later, though.
I recommend it, too! I really enjoyed the show when I saw it in Seoul last spring. You should go!
Bought tickets for the 24th. Almost thwarted by the Korean internet . . . and by there not being an actual box office at the Arts Center, but was able to make reservations over the phone.
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