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'Gateway to the World': Korea's Little Angels Arts School |
| Section: THE ARTS / INTERARTS |
| Author: Stephen Henkin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,467 Words, 9,345 Characters |
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In the suburbs along the eastern edge of sprawling Seoul lies an arts institution that on the surface looks like any other private school with uniformed students rushing about. But that is where the similarity ends. Not only does it serve as home base to two excellent dance companies, but it also uniquely stresses the development of personal character even before the arts.
Established in 1974, the Little Angels Arts School began with the conviction that "Korea is a nation of art and the Korean people are a people of culture." The school emerged as a result of Korean evangelist Rev. Sun Myung Moon's concern that the twenty-eight members of his Little Angels Korean Folk Ballet company receive a more systematic general education. The years of continual touring on four continents since 1965...
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...ure of an ancient and proud civilization, the Little Angels Arts School is training an enthusiastic generation of talented students in traditional and contemporary dance, music, and painting. Not only making Korea's cultural heritage comprehensible to the Western world, this unique institution is also teaching its own students that only by becoming better people can they produce superior art.
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