Courtyards: Pansori Loop – Granoff Center

In a collaboration between artist Mary-Kim Arnold and composer Bonnie Han Jones, Courtyards: Pansori Loop presents an immersive installation and performance experience  that reimagines the traditional Korean art of pansori, a musical genre that incorporates song, story, and gesture alongside elements of improvisation and audience engagement. As the central hub of traditional Korean home and family life, mandang, the courtyard, often served as a performance site and gathering place. By situating these musical and performative experiments imaginatively in these interstices, Courtyards: Pansori Loop gestures toward the blurring of boundaries — between domestic and public space, private selves and public performance, between the scripted and the improvisational, traditional and experimental.