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Dance, Genre That Needs No Tranlsation

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  • Published Nov 23, 2008 4:52 pm KST
  • Updated Nov 23, 2008 4:52 pm KST

By Julia H. Moon

General Director of the Universal Ballet Company

Among Korean art forms, dance, and more specifically, ballet, is a genre that has been aggressively pursuing the road toward globalization for some time.

In 1962, with the establishment of the Korean National Dance, the repertory of which included Western classical ballet,