Sue Yeon Park
New York, NY
Korean dancer and musician
The National Heriage Fellowship Award is nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts
National Endowment For The Arts Announces 2007 Recipients of Nation's Highest Honor in the Folk and Traditional Arts
Sue Yeon Park learned dance and music from Master Yi Mae-Bang, designated a Living National Treasure by the Government of Korea. She herself has now been given the honorific titles of yisuja for achieving the highest level of mastery of the salpuri-chum (Shaman ritual dance) and jeonsuja for the preservation of seungmu (Buddhist ritual dance) by the Ministry of Culture of South Korea. Immigrating to the United States in 1982, she founded the cultural group Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association in order to teach young people and to continue performing Korean music and dance traditions. Her performing group Sounds of Korea has been featured at festivals and in performing centers across the United States. Park also has been a regular instructor at Camp Friendship, an organization in New Jersey that serves Korean-born adopted children. One of her nominators says of her: "She is humble, selfless, poised, and unswerving in her strength of mind to share with and teach people about Korean traditional arts." In 2004, Sue Yeon Park received the New York State Governor’s Award for Excellence for her contributions to the presentation and preservation of Korean traditional arts.
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THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A KOREAN ARTIST HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THE NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP
I expect ever AZNLOVER member in the Greater Washington, DC area to be at the National Hertage Concert this year (happens in September at Strathmore Hall in Bethesda) to celebrate this honor - let's make it an area meeting!
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