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Untamed A piece to be approached as a poem. Yet there is a story ... The untamed, perhaps even called a 'soul' reimagines the past. Alone having left Korea, untamed has wandered foreign horizons. Releasing a blur of pain, lips call out scaring away the bitter hurt.   In early autumn returning to Seoul, a place once called home, wild faces the times. What did Korea mean? What does it bring now? The flowering tree under the harvest moon beckons. Tread softly for the journey has just begun.  Prologue  Spirit,  form the Koryo Dynasty, enters. Plays Buk & dances: cleansing the space. Exits  (5 min.) I. Facing the Past Wild emerges from the flowering tree. Finds a posted paper on the tree and reads  Yi Sang poem:   Flowering Tree / 꽃나무 On an open field      a flowering tree stands      with no other like it      nearby      t...

Participated in ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts / 2nd Student Festival (Online) Monday - Sunday, 13 - 19 July 2020 Here is AeRan’s take as she was invited to co-host the Korean on-line after show discussion. Her primary role was translator for Director Ha Kyounghwa of the Korean show Desire  and provide additional commentary. Upon watching and reflecting on the show she wrote the following text. Desire : corporeal expressions especially those created by the Korean body and Korean movement to tell the story of Medea. It was interesting to see the combination of Korean body verses greek mythology. To relate to the theme of the festival Home: Greek mythology is home or mother of theatre and the Korean body is the local home of where the actors are trained. In addition, according to what the director indicated, she utilized sources from Stanislavsky, considered to be the father of an actors theatre training. In this respect, the theme Home bring...

Live the Question Becoming the answer The journey I trace The impulse I follow The loneliness I assume Reveals the way I am In the silence I listen to the forgotten question Remembering to learn my way. - ae ran (Transliteration of Parcours by raymon) :: note :: ... written for an acting course ...

Ceremonial Healing Theater by Ae Ran Jeong Founded in 1982 the Native Earth Performing Arts (NEPA) (Preston 138) has become synonymous for the start of modern Native theater in Canada and its course resembles the path of survival for Native people in this land. Tomson Highway, the artistic director and playwright of NEPA, planted the seed for contemporary Native theater and the seed grows and develops on its own establishing a unique function and place for Native theater. The specific NEPA template for theater as a ceremony parallels other Aboriginal ceremonies such as the pipe ceremony, the sweat lodge and the prayers of the talking circle. Theater as ceremony seeded by NEPA follows precise processes and practices to create a distinctive working rehearsal procedure. Theater as a ceremony primarily focuses on healing the participants. NEPA was a role model for the Saskatchewan Native Theater Company (SNTC) and this company, which through the Circle of Voices Program (COV), began in 19...