4960 x 1754 px | 42 x 14,9 cm | 16,5 x 5,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
9 settembre 2011
Ubicazione:
Pyongyang, North Korea
Altre informazioni:
Questa immagine potrebbe avere delle imperfezioni perché è storica o di reportage.
Between August and October, takes place one of the biggest and most impressive performances in the world. The show is held several times a week and welcomes tourists from all over the World, including the US, in one of the most isolated country on earth. The well-called « mass games » are designed to emphasize group dynamics rather than individual performances as the supreme emblem of communism. Prepared by hundred of thousands performers all along the year, after their classes for the youngest of them, they are entirely dedicated to the leader. Not less than 100, 000 people are involved in a choreographed show of simultaneous dancing and gymnastics. Many symbols are displayed by thousands of trained athlets, whether they are adults or even children. Hand over their heart, the young pupils sing in chorus "We are the happiest children in the world", one of the famous propaganda songs in North Korea. Many dancers make movements either with ribbons or colourful flowers named « kimjonglias » after the leader Kim Jong Il. All along the show, a live band plays a ceremonious music. On the background, some 20, 000 young koreans sit on the terraces, facing the spectators. They flip coloured cards at a high speed to form a fresco of animated and detailed images, changing from one to another. Each time they turn the page to create a new giant picture, they cry out. It creates a awe-inspiring atmosphere, as the shout is mixed with the noise of thousands of pages turned at the same moment. The figures are stunning : to compose these images, 2000 children are needed to make only one soldier, 20, 000 for a north korean flag. Hiding a much more grim reality, the panels represent Pyongyang enlightened by night, wheat fields ready for harvest, scientists at work, atoms as symbols of the nuclear bomb and others for the reunification of two Koreas. One of the North Korea’s myths (history according to them) is recounted by the means of a huge image made by thousands of children. It
Questa immagine non può ottenere una licenza per l’uso personale (ad es. stampe personali).
