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Choi Seung-hee (SAI SHOKI) : The Dancing Princess from the Peninsula in Mexico 최승희 : 멕시코에서 춤춘 반도의 무희 ×
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ISSN : 2383-5214(Print)
ISSN : 2733-4279(Online)
Asian Dance Journal Vol.44 pp.65-96
DOI : 10.26861/sddh.2017.44.65

최승희 : 멕시코에서 춤춘 반도의 무희

Choi Seung-hee (SAI SHOKI) : The Dancing Princess from the Peninsula in Mexico

알프레도 로메로 카스틸라,김은희

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Abstract

When I first looked through the records of Korean immigrants on the foreigner register in Mexico in 1989, a photo attracted my attention of a flapper-haired, smiling, beautiful woman who stood out among the others. She was Sai Shoki, a famed dancer who performed in Mexico City in October, 1940. When I met Judy Van Zile, professor of University of Hawaii in Puerto España in the summer of 2000, the professor told me that her study on Korean dance was nearly completed. Her study looked into the performance tour in America by Choi Seung-hee(Shoki’s Korean name)and included articles on her Bogota performance. That led me to the presentation of this study in which I was to give details about Shoki’s dance career, records on her Mexico performance, and her political position on her nation’s independence movement, which drove her to move to North Korea and continue her career there. The appendix contains related photos.

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