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Visualized Research into the Apocalyptic Work of Angelin Preljocaj - 「And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace」

ji-won Lee 1

1이화여자대학교

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Angelin Preljocaj is a French choreographer who conveys powerful messages along with strong movements. There is no doubt that he is a ‘hilosophical choreographer’that was born into this era and who began speaking of this era. In 2010, he brought to the audience a work titled 「And Then, One thousand Years of Peace」. This performance having premiered with the cooperation of the Bolshoi Ballet and the Angelin Preljocaj Ballent in Russia came to Korea as it was chosen as the 2012 MODAFE finale. Angelin Preljocaj once interviewed that the dancer’ movements came from 『Revelations』of the bible. This research analyzed and interpreted the work under the theme of ‘pocalypse’ one of the words used most frequently today. The meaning of Apocalypse is the end or destruction of the human race and this work encompasses his viewpoint or this era’ take on the world. This is a story inspired by the Apocalypse in Revelations. The work embodies a dualistic view including light and darkness, machinery and humanism, and destruction and revival. Thus, it induces us to consider the contrasting image of good and evil. This research, in brief, deals with the work within the following categories: “he prophesized implication of Revelation through symbolic images”“men of a catastrophe and dystopic images” “estoration of humanism upon questions of human existence.”As this performance presents not only destruction but positive vision, Angelin’ utopic construct and a new exit for the current world is identified. Nonetheless, the truth the author wishes to convey is self-reflection of the present. Plans and predictions of the future is shown as a series of violence, namely, intemperance, waste of resources, and war. Therefore, Apocalypse implying both the present and prediction of a abstract event in the future is a warning that we must bear. It cautions us that the future holds a dilemma and human beings that survive due to restoration of humanism and love will live in a regressed city placed in nature. His direct and truthful movement and philosophical thinking dissolved in the dancer’ movements represents our era and can be understood as a proposition of the way we should live.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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