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I can see that the DPRK, far from being a “hermit kingdom", is a socialist nation following Kim Jong-il's maxim to "plant feet in our land, and lift eyes to see the world."👍✌️
North Korea, 1980s, Lyrical Dancing: Wangjaesan Dance Troupe
2/Wangjaesan Art Troupe - 走っていこう未来へ / 달려가자 미래로 / Dash to the future
[2017]
I'm able to see that by creating “Art [that is] Juche-oriented, revolutionary…national in form and socialist in content” that “encourage[s] creative workers and
3/"and artists to produce works of high ideological and artistic value”, North Korea is advancing its socialist contemporary culture in keeping with the times.👍✌️
By studying, assimilating & appropriating foreign dance & music styles into DPRK's own unique contemporary culture
4/North Korea (IMHO) is demonstrating that the international community has nothing on DPRK's passion for high culture. Perhaps for similar reasons
Why Russians Are So Good At Ballet,
Rudimentary fact: The U.S.'s CIA & South Korea's NIS are like two peas in a capitalist democracy pod.
The National Intelligence Service (South Korea) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_…
“(NIS, 대한민국 국가정보원, 국정원)…the chief intelligence agency of South Korea…was officially
2/"established in 1961 as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA, 중앙정보부).”
Central Intelligence Agency en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_I…
“is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and
3/"analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).”
We know how the CIA operates (b/c "art imitates life"):👇
[From 7/15/18]
“A North Korean who defected to South Korea along with several others in 2016 now claims he was blackmailed into doing so.
Ho Kang Il, a North Korean restaurant manager and his staff of 12 women defected to South Korea after the National newsweek.com/north-korean-d…
2/"Intelligence Service (NIS) coerced them.
"Originally, I was a cooperator of the NIS and brought information to them," Ho told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. "They threatened that unless I come to the South with the employees, they would divulge to the North Korean Embassy
3/"that I had cooperated with the NIS until then."…
"I had no choice but to do what they told me to," Ho said. He also explained that his employees did not know their fate until they had boarded the plane, believing they were headed to a restaurant in southeast Asia…
“With the flow of information from North Korea fiercely controlled, outsiders have long relied on defector testimonies to gain an understanding of what goes on inside the secretive state. But relying on the anecdotes of individuals – all with different theguardian.com/world/2015/oct…
2/"views and experiences – can also be risky.
In a report released last year, the UN accused the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, of crimes against humanity, and called for the case to be referred to the international criminal court. UN investigators had been denied access to
3/"the country, so the organization had instead carried out 240 confidential interviews with North Korean refugees living in South Korea, Japan, the UK and the US, including Shin Dong-hyuk, whose story was told in the bestselling Escape from Camp 14.
Q: Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imit…
A: Both. Art is produced by artists. Artists are painters, sculptors, architects, musicians, poets, actors, dancers & writers. When we aspire to become artists we start in school where teachers & mentors
2/guide us in the pursuit of our aspirations thru University level & beyond, which may culminate in achieving rewarding careers as artists. Art is an entirely human creation. It inspires & informs us at a universal level w/ a power that transcends ideology, nationality, race &
3/& language. Wherever “life imitates art”, then, it’s doing so in emulation of the original ideas of artists who created the art. At the same time, photography captures life in moments of real time. Nothing "resembles" life more closely than a photograph.
WHAT IS LYRICAL DANCE, AND WHAT IS THE MEANING BEHIND IT? omahaschoolofmusicanddance.com/our-blog/lyric…
“Lyrical dance is a style that combines ballet and jazz dancing techniques. It is performed to music with lyrics so that it inspires expression of strong emotions the choreographer feels from the
2/“lyrics of the song. This style concentrates on an individual approach and expressiveness of such emotions as love, joy, hurt, or anger. It does not concentrate on the dancer’s precision of movement…
The Lyrical style has a relatively recent history and brings together ballet
3/“with rock/folk/pop/alternative music and a variety of jazz and modern dance styles. Music for this style may consist of many genres including pop, rock, and hip-hop.
Lyrical dance tends to cover a large amount of space on the stage or dance room floor. The dancers travel with