Farewell, My Butterfly: An Evening of Korean Music and Dance - Old and New
"Farewell, My Butterfly: An Evening of Korean Music and Dance. Old and New" The Oasis Music Series, which has brought exceptional live music to the Boston area, presents an evening of Korean traditional dance, gayageum, and a cross-cultural collaboration bridging Korean classical music, jazz, and contemporary dance. When most people think of Korean culture today, K-pop and Netflix dramas come to mind — vibrant, energetic, and impossible to ignore. But Korea's artistic tradition carries a quieter power: ink paintings, celadon ceramics, music, and classical dance shaped by restraint, by the eloquence of pause, and by the emotion held in what is left unsaid. That sensibility, centuries old, is very much alive. This concert, titled "Farewell, My Butterfly" and presented just after the harvest moon festival of Chuseok, brings that tradition to the stage in two contrasting voices. Dancer Lee, Hanna performs Ipchum — one of the foundational forms of Korean classical da...