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Creation Korean Dance <Nyeong (寧), The Prince's Way> — Male Ensemble Performance
The Essence of Korean Dance Performed by Men. A 60-minute masterpiece featuring twelve male dancers depicting peace, power, and fate in the Joseon Dynasty.
Four Stories Dreaming of Peace
Why did King Taejong, who ascended the throne stained with the blood of political rivals, powerful in-laws, and even his own brothers, give his sons the name Nyeong (寧), meaning peace?
The princes who bore the name Nyeong (寧) spent countless days and nights struggling between desire and duty, despair and restraint, joy and fear, desperately searching for the peace they hoped to attain. Through the lives of King Taejong and his three sons, this work asks the fundamental question: What is peace?
Performance Highlights
1. The Essence of Korean Dance Performed by Men
Nyeong (寧), The Prince’s Path is a 60-minute performance presented exclusively by twelve male dancers. The graceful lines of the dancers, born from their masculine energy, together with a profound historical narrative, reveal the very essence of traditional and contemporary Korean dance.
2. The Most Korean, Yet Contemporary Performance
Drawing on the stories of kings from the Joseon Dynasty, the work brings history to life through the beautiful movement vocabulary of Korean dance. By embodying both the inherent beauty of traditional Korean dance and a contemporary interpretation of its aesthetics, Nyeong (寧), The Prince’s Path presents a distinctive movement language that is uniquely its own.
Synopsis
This is the story of King Taejong, who risked bloodshed to seize the crown and, having secured the throne, changed the destinies of his three sons in order to protect it.
Having killed his own brothers and destroyed his wife’s family to preserve the crown, Taejong strives not to pass his own fate on to his sons. Watching their father, each of the three princes makes a different choice. Though born as the sons of the mightiest king, their destinies are forever altered by their father. The story of these four men, whose lives are shaped by Heaven’s will, unfolds through the finest traditions of Korean male dance.