There was an Asian boy who dreamt of being a ballerino. But what made him give up the balle shoes and dance barefoot on the street?
The spring of the Prague gave rise to “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and Japan’s student movement “Norwegian Wood.”
And the still on-going spring of Gwangju in Korea has given birth to “Dancer of the Wind.”
Lee Sam-hun dreamt of becoming a ballerino after watching “Swan Lake” on black-and-white TV. more
There was an Asian boy who dreamt of being a ballerino. But what made him give up the balle shoes and dance barefoot on the street?
The spring of the Prague gave rise to “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and Japan’s student movement “Norwegian Wood.”
And the still on-going spring of Gwangju in Korea has given birth to “Dancer of the Wind.”
Lee Sam-hun dreamt of becoming a ballerino after watching “Swan Lake” on black-and-white TV.
But his dream of soaring like a bird was crushed by the government-ordered massacre that decimated the city of Gwangju in 1980.
Lee Sam-hun, once an aspiring ballerino, now dances at protests.
“Dancer of the Wind,” Sam-hun’s journey from an aspiring ballerino to a street dancer, is a tribute dance to the Korean people struggling to survive the trials of Korean modern history and their unquenchable thirst for freedo
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