Uhee Nori is a fresh take on traditional Korean theater that takes the unfamiliar sounds and rhythms of traditional music and makes them fun, exciting, and accessible. The distinct beauty and charms of Korean tunes are displayed at the fullest.

This is the ultimate one-stop show where you can enjoy Korea’s one of a kind theater, dance, and music – all in one sitting. The performance gained renowned for its skillful use of the “Gueum”, which is a uniquely Korean mnemonic technique that captures the feel and allure of Korean music.

The rhythmical percussions facilitate communication with the audience, while the company also experiments with new programs that add to the exuberance. The Dolmen program recreates the musical exhilaration of both past and present and adds the element of fun choreography. Rain is a reinterpretation of Samulnori where the audience is instantly transported into the midst of a heavy storm where rain and thunder pours down. Wonpuri breaks free from traditional formations and shows a modern version of Korean percussion.

Uhee Company ’s unique style encourages its performers to interact with the audience, turning the entire venue into a musical celebration.

HKGNA/Festive Korea 2016 Gala concert proudly presents two-time Grammy nominee, star violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill performing Walton’s Viola Concerto. He will be joined by award winning violinist Hyuna Kim performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. We’ll also have outstanding cellist Minhye Clara Kim performing Dvořák’s Silent Woods. An all star roster of guest soloists will perform with The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Sharon Choa. Three enchanting concertos with three amazing star soloists and Hong Kong’s very best HKAPA Symphony orchestra performing Smetana Vltava’s The Moldau from Má vlast . It will be an ultimate celebration of music!

This work, inspired by the pastiche of buddha copies and the cultural clash, gives the paradoxical insight that the buddha figure ‘bulsang’ is not the face of God but our own faces in this world. Here the title simultaneously implies the life of secular people as the buddha figure ‘bulsang’ literally and as the poor ‘bulssang’.

While the choreography creates new movement vocabulary through disheveling the boundaries of dance and culture, and integrating disparate elements, the pop-art sensibility of installation artist Choi Jeong Hwa and DJ’s live music create a playful stage by experimenting improvisation.

“Bul-Ssang” crosses over the boundaries of the traditional and the modern, the East and the West, the refined and the vulgar. It casts a question how the world view of the divine and the vulgar being one, which finds the sacred in the trifling, unstably changing and vibrant life itself, resonates with today’s hybrid cultural phenomena and approaches with validity in today’s life.

Seoul-based graphic designer Hyun Cho and S/O Project seeks progressive design materialized through the relationship between subject and object.

S/O Project takes subject (thought, word, writing and letter) and produced experiential, material everyday design through everyday object (thing) as a medium. In the design process, S/O Project creates a new design methodology, called “Playful and Experiential Communication”. Exhibition ‘Flat-Form’ intends to show everyday design produced through cooking, blending, and attempting thought and materials that are based on the new methodology.