The Story of a Dancer: Choi Seung Hee Won Jongsun [videorecording]=

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Won Jongsun

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Korean Summary language: Korean Original language: Korean Subtitle language: Korean, English Publication details: 2008Description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:

PN1997 .S767 2008

Summary: From Hanbooks.com: Choi Seung-hee (1911—1969) was a leading Korean dancer. She was born into an upper-class family in Seoul, Korea during the Japanese occupation, and was also known by the Japanese pronunciation of her name, Sai Shoki. After graduating from Sookmyung High School at the age of fifteen, she went against her father's wishes to study under modern dancer Baku Ishii in Japan, where she distinguished herself as one of the most talented dancers. She developed her own modern dances inspired by Korean folk dances, which had been considered as lowly works. She was supported by Japanese intellectuals including Yasunari Kawabata. She went to North Korea and got posts in the communist government. She was purged by the party and disappeared in the 1960s. In February 2003, she was rehabilitated and utilized for propaganda by North Korea, who announced that she had died in 1969. NEW ARRIVAL. ADDITIONAL DETAILS TO BE ADDED LATER.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .S767 2008	Available		001402

From Hanbooks.com:
Choi Seung-hee (1911—1969) was a leading Korean dancer.

She was born into an upper-class family in Seoul, Korea during the Japanese occupation, and was also known by the Japanese pronunciation of her name, Sai Shoki. After graduating from Sookmyung High School at the age of fifteen, she went against her father's wishes to study under modern dancer Baku Ishii in Japan, where she distinguished herself as one of the most talented dancers. She developed her own modern dances inspired by Korean folk dances, which had been considered as lowly works. She was supported by Japanese intellectuals including Yasunari Kawabata.

She went to North Korea and got posts in the communist government. She was purged by the party and disappeared in the 1960s. In February 2003, she was rehabilitated and utilized for propaganda by North Korea, who announced that she had died in 1969. NEW ARRIVAL. ADDITIONAL DETAILS TO BE ADDED LATER.

DVD video, Dolby Digital 2.0, stereo, NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 fullscreen.

Korean audio. Optional English or Korean subtitles.

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